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Taal Is Zeg Maar Echt Mijn Ding (2018)

Romance | 90 minutes
2,36 121 votes

Genre: Romance / Comedy

Duration: 90 minuten

Country: Netherlands

Directed by: Barbara Bredero

Stars: Fockeline Ouwerkerk, Egbert Jan Weeber and Peter Faber

IMDb score: 5,6 (572)

Releasedate: 18 January 2018

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Taal Is Zeg Maar Echt Mijn Ding plot

The clumsy Anne has a passion for language. Stop words, corruptions, misquotes, swear words and separate baby names. She can enjoy it immensely, it surprises her and she has an opinion about it. At the glossy magazine she works for, however, she's only allowed to write about summer fashion and quinoa salads. Fortunately, she can share her frustration with her colleague and best friend Timo. When she eventually also has to take care of her father, Anne decides that she wants things completely different; a job with more depth, away from the daily grind and finding the love of her life.

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mrklm

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Fockeline Ouwerkerk does what she can to salvage the film, aided by Peter Faber in a wonderful performance as the demented father of journalist Anne [Ouwerkerk], who actually wants to leave her job at a glossy women's magazine to work on a book of linguistic reflections. The screenplay is a mess, overflowing with ideas and lacking structure, meaning no element truly shines. Consequently, the film is a bit funny, a bit romantic, and a bit touching, but falls short on all counts. Ouwerkerk is exceptionally charismatic, but her neurotic attitude toward grammatical errors makes her quite irritating. However, the film is full of unbearable characters, and the performances of Tina de Bruin [as Anne's sister], Martijn Hillenius [as her brother], and Rick Paul van Mulligen [as his friend] are downright irritating. Egbert Jan Weeber is too good to be true in this poorly directed, predictable film with often incomprehensible voice-overs and a mess of a soundtrack.

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Brandt

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So, a few years ago, someone woke up with the idea of adapting Paulien Cornelissen's book into a rom-com. That's not a bad thing, but the fact that no one then says, "Bad idea, don't do it," is a real shame.

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Roger Thornhill

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It'll be a real challenge to find a film that has less to do with the book on which it's based, as the title suggests. Main character Anne is quite preoccupied with language and finds some constructions odd or ugly, and she occasionally elaborates on this in a clumsy voice-over, but otherwise this is just a shameless Bridget Jones copy, whose demented father's sidenote is actually considerably more interesting than Anne's musings on language and her antics with poster boy Rick. Fortunately, there are a few well-known actors who liven things up a bit with their overblown roles (Martijn Hillenius, in particular, is just as hilarious as he was in Aanmodderfakker), but the plot is absolutely not the film's strength.
Positive points are Fockeline Ouwerkerk who tries her best but can't compete with the bland script, Peter Faber who delivers a genuinely moving performance, and Egbert Jan Weeber who makes me feel sympathy for his character as best friend, although I don't understand his motivation: first he blushes when Anne says he has a crush on colleague Fay, then it suddenly becomes awkward when Anna is present when Fay emerges from Timo's shower, and finally Anna says she's actually crazy about Timo and they fall into each other's arms, but what does all this crush of Timo on Fay actually mean when it's been telegraphed from their very first scene together that Timo is the one for Anne? Completely unclear. I know, I shouldn't think about it too deeply, it's just a rom-com where steps B, C, D… don't matter as long as the characters from starting point A have found each other at finish flag Z, but this made absolutely no sense.

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