Isi and Ossi

Director: Oliver Kienle
Year Released: 2020
Rating: 1.0

Oh boy, it's another unlikely pairing movie: Isi (Lisa Vicari), who comes from a wealthy German family, wants to go to culinary school in the States but her parents don't approve, so she leaves home, gets a job working at a fast food restaurant and then convinces a scruffy boxer from Mannheim named Ossi (Dennis Mojen) to date her just to make Mom and Dad mad ... but, as expected, they fall in love.  The "inspiration" is the dopey American romcom so you get most of the trappings and vain attempts to be "cool" from that (iPhone popups and American hip-hop on the soundtrack!) ... and then there's that fabled German sense of humor to really keep the chuckles rolling.  Everyone's fairly progressive - Ossi's best friend is a Muslim (who sends his mother a dick pic by accident) - but then there's the real star of the show, Grandpa (Ernst Stötzner), who uses slurs and mentions Hitler a few too many times ... and channels that Old School Hate into rap for the masses.