Alright, the main thesis of the movie which could be 'The British are cooler and wittier than the Germans' might be not quite wrong. But please, dear Tommies, believe us, punk rock in Germany has not always been that boring.

This is quite a bad movie. The acting is very poor, and the director has been one of the worst German directors ever then, and is still now, as far as I know. There is no suspense, no empathy with the characters, no action and no fun. There is not even any remarkable photography or score music which often saves even the worst road movies. To the movie's credit it is to say that this is a TV production and it was made obviously with laymen. The only halfway professional staff is the band The Adverts, who, in 1979 were quite experienced at least in profiling on stage and who are just behaving the way a punk band is expected to behave.

So it is mainly the live footage that makes the film worth watching. The Adverts are performing about half a dozen of their songs including "Gary Gilmore's Eyes" and "Great British Mistake" (which is in the end changed into "Great German Mistake". I wonder whether director Wolfgang Büld noticed that? I guess not, otherwise he had quit making films.) And it is fun to watch the young British punk rockers making their way through German provincial culture of the late Seventies. What remains is a naive comedy and a homage to a legendary band, and if you consider dilettantism as the essence of punk, this movie is punk.

3 points for the music and 1 extra point for the English humor. Sorry, that's all.