Suck Me Shakespeer 3 (2017) User Reviews (8)

Enjoyable, but nowhere as good as the first two movies

[mrpanda-00412 · 5/10 · 28 October 2017]

This is the third part of a trilogy and as such the novelty of the scenario is fading. The first movie was surprisingly good and not as expected. The second movie played in an entirely different environment which added a few new elements to the story. Now the third movie's setting is back where it all started: at school.

To me it seemed like the movie does not really know what it wants to do. In the first two movies, the main protagonist (the ex-con teacher) gradually opened up to the children, became friendlier, and started to care for them. This movie reboots the whole thing by making our guy dislike the children at first, only to let him warm up throughout the movie once more. In general the movie seems to re-establish many things for viewers who have not seen the first two movies. The same thing goes for the jokes, which are very similar to the two previous movies, too similar even. Overall I just felt like the two movies never happened and we are seeing more or less the same thing again. Maybe this is why the first half-hour of the movie also seemed a bit like not having a clear purpose at all. The movie wants to establish the situation, but not really. It wants to continue where the predecessors left off, but not really. It throws around jokes that are not new, really.

The second part of the movie gets more interesting and starts following a clearer story-line, albeit in a linear and predictable way. This is not unsurprising for a comedy, but compared to the predecessors it is just not as good.

If you truly enjoyed the first two movies, you will still like this one. If you did not care for the first two movies, this one is definitely not for you. It suffers from exactly the same problems as similar trilogies at the point of the third installment. Take Despicable Me for example. Not a bad movie, just nothing new and no surprises for the viewer.

Too Much Over the Top

[Breumaster · 5/10 · 22 February 2020]

The movie has some funny scenes, but also too much gross-out humour. It wouldn't be that, if it wasn't so over the top trying to be funny. On the other hand I do admire, that German movie makers at last try to come out having gut to go better ways. The main problem with Germans movie business is, that they always try to do a movie that has a deeper meaning - and then the movies become boring, except those movies about the second world war. I consider this as a new attempt to bring freshness into German cinema. Not the worst, not the best. I hope they keep the way and will be better in next productions. The movie itself tells, that this is the last part of this series. I hope the next projects will be less hectic and over-excited, but better - in a new way.

Goethe or Shakespeare ... not

[kosmasp · 5/10 · 12 April 2022]

Depending on which version you are watching, you will be getting a different title. One that is aware that the main characters here are not the brightest. A journey that began many years ago finally finds its conclusion.

The teacher who still is an unlikely fit (if you even want to call it that), who is stripped away from his love (interest). Or rather she was thrown off the movie - not sure who made the choice, she herself or the producers - not that it matters in the grand scheme of things.

If you are familiar with our main players you know their quirks. We know them so well, that you kind of forget they are real human beings (actors nonetheless) who only pretend to be completely clueless - also lacking intelligence to put it mildly and hopefully in a way that does not offend anyone.

But if you actually are someone who is easily offended you probably should not watch the movie. The way the kids are treated or how they treat others ... it is a comedy, but again you have to lower your own IQ while watching, so it doesn't quit on you ... ok I may be exaggerating things a little bit here, but you know what I mean.

There are some PSA at the end of the movie - during the credits, followed by Outtakes. Especially the latter ones are more likely to get you to laugh than most of the things that are in the movie. Just saying - I applaud the actors, even though I don't quite like what they do. But they give it their all and really let loose. Which again is more than apparent how hard it is, when you watch the bloopers.

Pathetic

[FrenchEddieFelson · 2/10 · 13 August 2019]

I saw this lamentable movie, by chance, on TV, because it had started immediately after the previous movie, without any intermediate ad. I watched 5 minutes out of curiosity, then 10 others to confirm the mediocre quality. It's completely daft! The script, the dialogues, the actors' play ... everything rhymes with cheapness.

Even for german movies terrible.

[julsenramsk · 2/10 · 18 April 2022]

Terrible acting even for german movies.

Dont think that even 6 year olds could laugh about that - the jokes just annoying and cringe. To round it up theres some of the most annoying music ive ever heard in a movie.

One extra star for some pretty actresses.

Worst film I've ever watched.

[henryallendoggy · 1/10 · 23 October 2022]

In my life, I watched many bad films, but this was the most miserable 2 hours of my life I've ever had the displeasure of experiencing. From the acting, to the comedy, to the camera work it is a truly miserable affair from start to end. I've never been more annoyed at a movie, and this is a pathetic excuse for a feature film.

The students aren't a failure, this misery of a film is the main failing of the entire German film pantheon. It's no where near as good as the first 2 suck me shakespeare films, which I love. Don't watch this film, don't give the creators anything more than ridicule, worst film I've ever watched and I will probably burn the DVD, of this pile of compost.

Road to the A-Levels painful and predictable to watch for any audience member

[Horst_In_Translation · 2/10 · 16 October 2018]

"Fack ju Göhte 3" or "Suck Me Shakespeer 3" is a German film from 2017, still relatively new, and as the title gives away the third installment of its franchise. It was clear before that already that this would be the last film and that it would end as a trilogy. The man behind this is Bora Dagtekin and his lead is Elyas M'Barek and these two have worked together on projects begore FJG already. Now what can be said about this one? I think the original film, a huge commercial success, was tolerable, the second was pretty weak and this one here is just plain horrible. So the winner you could say is Karoline Herfurth who decided not to return to play the protagonist's love interest. The only winner I guess. Still they got a decent cast together as there would be no doubt that this is gonne be another commercial success, which sadly says nothing positive at all about German theater audiences. Jella Haase is back of course as Chantal and maybe she is the central female character this time. Katja Riemann is back as well sharing some screen time with Sandra Hüller who somewhat fills in for Herfurth and I think she is a pretty talented actress, not only in Toni Erdmann, but yeah she is terrible here, which is probably more becazuse of the way the character was written than to her performance. Chantal gets away with Toxic. Hüller doesn't. Good actors and actresses like Maertens, Harfouch, van Acken and Hermann are wasted with minimal screen time. Sucks to see somebody go from being a Fassbinder regular to Fack Ju Göhte. Oh well, the comedy is at the film's very core. The film does not feel fluent at all, but it relies on individual scenes. One or two were mildly funny perhaps, the rest is trash and that the film runs for a massive 110 minutes (plus another 10 minutes of credits) is not helping matters at all. It's never funny, let alone laugh out loud funny. Had this been the only problem, maybe I could have been more generous with my rating as I rarely give 1 out of 5, but yeah, the film tries to make important statements on crucial subjects like bullying, suicide, poverty, struggling mother-daughter relationship, violence, career paths etc. and it takes itself so painfully important at times that it is just horrible to watch. Of course, it is also an extremely predictable movie. The conflicts all feel like nothingness and are solved right away. I mean if a core conflict is a teacher buying magazines by one of his students that she things people read them, then that says it all. Everythign of course turns out happy, everybody succeeds with their exams and A-Levels, the teacher ends up loving his job and succeeds at his own test where superiors watch the way he handles his class. Also after school the kids are all successful. And maybe the most cringeworthy moment is how and what this film is trying to sell us as art and creative painting and how one boy succeeds with his unorthodox method. So yes it is an unbearably bad 2 hours and I recommend everybody with decent taste in film to stay far far away from this one. Unless they love other crap like recent Schweiger and Schweighöfer films. Then they will probably appreciate this one here too. It's not cool. Not smart. Not deep. Not insightful. Not charming. Just plain bad. Best decision in the process of making this film? To end the franchise afterward. Highly not recommended.

Nothing to be found.

[brsger · 3/10 · 18 January 2024]

The very very few redeeming aspects (one nice musical montage, Sandra Hüller and Lena Klenke) are crushed by the emptiness this movie oozes.

Barely ANY plot, characters just doing whatever, the complete absence of Karoline Herfurth and the less than lackluster explanation of it... It just piles up.

The wrong direction this "franchise" took in the second installment just worsened and ended up to be a big pile of nothingness.

Too much Katja Riemann, a boring and forgettable M'Barek (did he forget he's supposed to be the protagonist?) and side characters which are either given too little or too much attention, makes all of this a drag.

M'Barek without Herfurth isn't even worth half the ticket.

3/10.