The Wild Soccer Bunch 4 (2007)

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

This is the fourth of five Wilde Kerle movies and in my opinion maybe also the last as the final film is really more of an epilogue. The reason why I wrote this one here is possibly the worst is because it is the one that features Wilson Gonzales Ochsenknecht the most. He is a definite contender for worst German actor right now and I am absolutely sure that he would not have a career without his famous dad. Jimi Blue is not much better, but Wilson Gonzales is cringeworthy in absolutely every scene he is in. They did better with having him as a very small supporting character in the first three films. Joachim Masannek is the writer and director again and the difference between this film and the other is that the wild kids face two different enemy football teams this time. That is probably also why this movie is much longer than films 1-3. Add to that a story of jealousy involving the Ochsenknecht boys and you have a runtime not too far away from two hours anymore.Nobody other than Uwe Ochsenknecht is known in the cast anymore which is actually really bad looking at other German kids movies with stellar casts and performances. But what would you expect if the filmmaker behind this puts all his children into all these films. Favoritism of the worst kind. The costumes are pretty horrible too and the football action that was initially the core of these movies has become only a sub-plot by now. Also, it is funny how they said in the third film that they are too old for the whole wild boys thing and yet they made two more films afterward. Cash cow alert. Quality is irrelevant by now. It's only making as much money as possible with these sequels. The only positive thing you could say is that this movie is not worse than the previous one, but sadly the only reason is that they were all utter crap already as well. The music is bad (Bananafishbones have delivered extremely terrible songs for all 5 films), the football action is completely unrealistic rubbish and the whole motorbike riding is as pretentious as it gets. These five films are a definite contender for worst movie franchise of all times. Stay away.