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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Implied to be one of Schlucke's pastimes when Keek and Andy break into his house in search of him, what with all the softporn magazines lying around. Then again, women don't want him, and he can't afford a hooker.
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'''Melanie:''' "[[UnfortunateImplications And now your ass is hurting]], huh?"

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'''Melanie:''' "[[UnfortunateImplications And "And now your ass is hurting]], hurting, huh?"
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* YourCheatingHeart: Manuela - Kalle's wife who works in a video store - doesn't see why she shouldn't have sex while her husband is doing time. "Am I supposed to live like a nun?" However, acting in a porn movie may have been too much.

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->''"90 minutes of hardcore. Real feelings."''
-->-- '''Franky'''



* BriefcaseFullOfMoney:
** Keek pays for Kalle's Mercedes with one of these. It's mostly CounterfeitCash, though.
** The millions that Kampmann has made with his deal with the Romanians are stashed away in a travel bag in an airport locker. [[spoiler:At least everyone except Melanie thinks so. She has actually replaced all the money with newspapers and stuffed it into her travel bag.]]
** This is also what Keek wants from Kampmann in exchange for whatever was in the safe. [[spoiler:The one he gets is filled with newspapers, too.]] Besides, at this point, Keek doesn't even know what was in the safe that Kampmann found so valuable.



* CarFu: [[spoiler:Franky dies under Kalle's Mercedes 500 SEC for having fucked Kalle's wife in a self-made porn flick.]]



** The Mercedes 500 SEC Kalle orders while in prison and later pimps up. Well, at least he thinks it's a cool car.

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** The Mercedes 500 SEC Kalle orders while in prison and later pimps up. Well, at least he thinks it's a cool car. Andy finds out that it has been totaled and badly patched up.



* CounterfeitCash: Hilmi gives it to Keek and tells him to mix it with real money. "They screwed us, we screw someone else. A circle, you know?" Note: The money is ''so fake'' and badly printed you even notice if you only glimpse at it while it's mixed with real money.

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* CounterfeitCash: Hilmi gives it to Keek and tells him to mix it with real money. "They screwed us, we screw someone else. A circle, you know?" Note: The money is ''so fake'' and badly printed you even notice if you only glimpse at it while it's mixed with real money. There isn't even any ink in the middle of the notes.



* DumbBlonde: Melanie, intern in Kampmann's firm. As Kampmann says, she was only hired for having perfect 90-60-90 measurements. [[spoiler:Subverted -- at the end, she takes the money!]]

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* DumbBlonde: Melanie, intern in Kampmann's firm. As Kampmann says, she was only hired for having perfect 90-60-90 measurements. [[spoiler:Subverted -- at the end, she takes turns out to have the money!]]



* FatBastard: Werner Kampmann.

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* FatBastard: Werner Kampmann. He cheats Andy out of a professional soccer career to have a professional-level soccer player on his team for the price of an amateur, and as if his already illegal business isn't enough, he also tries to [[InsuranceFraud cash in on his insurance with a fake burglary]].



* ImportantHaircut: After breaking out, Kalle cuts off his long hair. And gets a way too deep tan at the tanning studio.

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* ImportantHaircut: After breaking out, Kalle cuts off his long hair.mullet. And gets a way too deep tan at the tanning studio.



* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Keek (real name: Dirk), Schlucke, Ratte.

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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Keek (real name: Dirk), Dirk, but it's only mentioned once, and he quit using it himself), Schlucke, Ratte.Ratte.
* OpinionFlipFlop: Before buying the Mercedes for Kalle, Andy, a mechanic, takes a closer look at it and discovers it's essentially a badly fixed wreck. He'd never spend any money on anything like this, much less the agreed-upon sum. In fact, he strongly recommends not to buy the car. However, when Keek quietly mentions to him that most of the money he brought is CounterfeitCash, Andy quickly changes his mind and agrees upon the deal just to beat it as soon as they can.



* BriefcaseFullOfMoney:
** Stashed away in an airport locker. [[spoiler:At least everyone except Melanie thinks so.]]
** A Suitcase Full Of Money is what Keek wants from Kampmann.



* YouDirtyRat: One of the criminals is nicknamed "Ratte".

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* YouDirtyRat: One of the criminals The criminal from whom Andy and Keek get Kalle's SEC and who then joins Schlucke on his caper is nicknamed "Ratte".

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* CasanovaWannabe: Max Kampmann who tries to hit on Melanie.

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* CasanovaWannabe: Max Marc Kampmann who tries to hit on Melanie.



* ADateWithRosiePalms: Implied to be one of Schlucke's pastimes when Keek and Andy break into his house in search of him, what with all the softporn magazines lying around. Then again, women don't want him, and he can't afford a hooker.



** First, [[Ratte places Schlucke's corpse [[PunkInTheTrunk in Keek's car]]]] in order to avoid looking like his murderer (which he does anyway when Andy And Keek find the body).

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** First, [[Ratte [[spoiler:Ratte places Schlucke's corpse [[PunkInTheTrunk in Keek's car]]]] in order to avoid looking like his murderer (which he does anyway when Andy And Keek find the body).



* PoliceAreUseless: Definitely in the one scene where they appear in Keek's apartment to look for Kalle. All the time, he's lying under the couch. And then, one policeman tries to flip a cigarette and catch it with his mouth, drops it on the floor next to Kalle - but then decides to not pick it up.

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* PoliceAreUseless: PoliceAreUseless:
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Definitely in the one scene where they appear in Keek's apartment to look for Kalle. All the time, he's lying under the couch. And then, one policeman tries to flip a cigarette and catch it with his mouth, drops it on the floor next to Kalle - but then decides to not pick it up.up.
** They do find out that Kampmann was visited by Romanian truckers. But they don't know anything about their smuggling of electronics which earned Kampmann a fortune, and at the same time, they believe the Romanians have stolen Kampmann's safe without having any evidence for it.



* StealTheSurroundings: When Andy and Keek discover that Kampmann's safe (with Keeks [[{{Fingore}} thumb]] in it) cannot be opened anymore, they have to get it somewhere where it can be cut open. So they tie a chain around it, attach the other end on Keek's Taunus and drag it out of the office building and through "half the Ruhrgebiet". It has been on the second floor, and the first thing it hits after being dragged through the outer wall is Max Kampmann's BMW.

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* StealTheSurroundings: When Andy and Keek discover that Kampmann's safe (with Keeks [[{{Fingore}} thumb]] in it) cannot be opened anymore, they have to get it somewhere where it can be cut open. So they tie a chain around it, attach the other end on Keek's Taunus and drag it out of the office building and through "half the Ruhrgebiet". It has been on the second floor, and the first thing it hits after being dragged through the outer wall is Max Marc Kampmann's BMW.BMW.
* StealthInsult:
-->'''Marc:''' "I've fucked around real good last night."\\
'''Melanie:''' "[[UnfortunateImplications And now your ass is hurting]], huh?"

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* TheAllegedCar: Keek's mint-green Ford Taunus. After the movie, it's in even worse shape.

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* TheAllegedCar: Keek's mint-green Ford Taunus. After Like [[Film/TheBigLebowski the movie, it's in even worse shape.Dude's formerly green Ford Torino]], it shape worsens over the course of the film.



* BatterUp: After [[spoiler:finding Schlucke's corpse in [[PunkInTheTrunk Keek's car]]]], Andy and Keek go interrogate Ratte whom Andy suspects of [[spoiler:having murdered Schlucke]]. Andy wields Keek's aluminum baseball bat. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] because both know that Ratte is probably even more of a gangster than Kalle.

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* BatterUp: BatterUp:
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After [[spoiler:finding Schlucke's corpse in [[PunkInTheTrunk Keek's car]]]], Andy and Keek go interrogate Ratte whom Andy suspects of [[spoiler:having murdered Schlucke]]. Andy wields Keek's aluminum baseball bat. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] because both know that Ratte is probably even more of a gangster than Kalle.Kalle.
** The baseball bat is also used to destroy the speed trap that caught Keek and Andy while towing Kampmann's safe.



* ChekhovsGun: The video. Melanie's cell phone.
* [[ChekhovsGunman Chekhov's Gunwoman]]: Melanie, intern in Kampmann's firm, who likes to play around with her cell phone. [[spoiler:Which she uses to film Kampmann when he enters the combination.]]

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* ChekhovsGun: The video. Melanie's cell phone.
handbag which she always keeps on her desk next to her.
* [[ChekhovsGunman Chekhov's Gunwoman]]: "Zuckermäusken" Melanie, intern in Kampmann's firm, who likes to play around with firm. [[spoiler:She has a video camera hidden in her cell phone. [[spoiler:Which handbag that aims straight at Kampmann's safe behind her so she uses to film Kampmann when he enters can catch the combination.]]



* CounterfeitCash: Hilmi gives it to Keek and tells him to mix it with real money. "They screwed us, we screw someone else. A circle, you know?" Note: The money is ''so fake'' and badly printed you even notice if you only glimpse at it.

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* CounterfeitCash: Hilmi gives it to Keek and tells him to mix it with real money. "They screwed us, we screw someone else. A circle, you know?" Note: The money is ''so fake'' and badly printed you even notice if you only glimpse at it.it while it's mixed with real money.



* DumbBlonde: Melanie, intern in Kampmann's firm. As Kampmann says, she was only hired for having perfect 90-60-90 measurements. [[spoiler:Subverted - at the end, she takes the money!]]

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* DumbBlonde: Melanie, intern in Kampmann's firm. As Kampmann says, she was only hired for having perfect 90-60-90 measurements. [[spoiler:Subverted - -- at the end, she takes the money!]]



* LongRunner: Ever since the premiere, UCI Bochum has reserved one screen for playing ''Bang Boom Bang'' daily.



* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Keek (real name: Dirk), Schlucke, Ratte

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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Keek (real name: Dirk), Schlucke, RatteRatte.



* {{Safecracking}}: Keek, of all people, can do it. [[spoiler:Not however if one of his thumbs is ripped off.]]

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* {{Safecracking}}: Keek, of all people, can do it. [[spoiler:Not however if one of his thumbs is ripped off.off, and the entire safe is warped by a professional-level soccer player's kick.]]



* UnwantedAssistance: When Keek and Schlucke buy the car for Kalle from the Danish gang, Andy joins them, to check whether the car is in order. Unfortunately they didn't tell him that they want to pay with fake money and have to pull this through as fast as possible.

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* UnwantedAssistance: When Keek and Schlucke buy the car for Kalle from Ratte and the Danish gang, Andy joins them, to check whether the car is in order. Unfortunately they didn't tell him that they want to pay with fake money and have to pull this through as fast as possible.possible, so he absolutely refuses to accept the car -- until they tell him.
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In short: It's a dirty, but very funny movie about small criminals - a bit like an early Creator/GuyRitchie movie transplanted to Germany. For the full plot, see [[Synopsis/BangBoomBang the synopsis]].

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In short: It's a dirty, but very funny movie about small criminals - a bit like an early Creator/GuyRitchie movie transplanted to Germany. For the full plot, see [[Synopsis/BangBoomBang the synopsis]].
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* TheCameo: German star Til Schweiger plays a footballer (with fake dreadlocks and in blackface). The director also has one.

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* TheCameo: German star Til Schweiger Creator/TilSchweiger plays a footballer (with fake dreadlocks and in blackface). The director also has one.

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* [[TropicalEpilogue Subtropical Epilogue]]: [[spoiler:Noone but Melanie]] in Mallorca, Spain.
* BriefcaseFullOfMoney: Stashed away in an airport locker. [[spoiler:At least everyone except Melanie thinks so.]]
** [[BriefcaseFullOfMoney Suitcase Full Of Money]]: What Keek wants from Kampmann.

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* [[TropicalEpilogue Subtropical Epilogue]]: TropicalEpilogue: Or at least Subtropical: [[spoiler:Noone but Melanie]] in Mallorca, Spain.
* BriefcaseFullOfMoney: BriefcaseFullOfMoney:
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Stashed away in an airport locker. [[spoiler:At least everyone except Melanie thinks so.]]
** [[BriefcaseFullOfMoney A Suitcase Full Of Money]]: What Money is what Keek wants from Kampmann.


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* UnwantedAssistance: When Keek and Schlucke buy the car for Kalle from the Danish gang, Andy joins them, to check whether the car is in order. Unfortunately they didn't tell him that they want to pay with fake money and have to pull this through as fast as possible.

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* LovableLoser: Keek.



* [[MeaningfulName Meaningful Nickname]]: "Schlucke" bluntly hints that he's got a drinking problem. "Ratte"... see: YouDirtyRat.

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* [[MeaningfulName Meaningful Nickname]]: MeaningfulName: "Schlucke" bluntly hints that he's got a drinking problem. "Ratte"... see: YouDirtyRat.



===>'''Andy:''' "Schlucke, what are we supposed to steal here, the forklift?"

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===>'''Andy:''' --->'''Andy:''' "Schlucke, what are we supposed to steal here, the forklift?"



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* BadBoss: Kampmann sr.

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* BadBoss: Kampmann sr.Werner Kampmann.



* BerserkButton: Kalle doesn't react well when he learns that his wife appeared in a home porn movie.

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* BerserkButton: BatterUp: After [[spoiler:finding Schlucke's corpse in [[PunkInTheTrunk Keek's car]]]], Andy and Keek go interrogate Ratte whom Andy suspects of [[spoiler:having murdered Schlucke]]. Andy wields Keek's aluminum baseball bat. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] because both know that Ratte is probably even more of a gangster than Kalle.
* BerserkButton:
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Kalle doesn't react well when he learns that his wife appeared in a home porn movie.



* BlackAndGrayMorality: Even the good guys are crooks in this movie.



* CasanovaWannabe: Kampmann jr, who tries to hit on Melanie.

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* CasanovaWannabe: Max Kampmann jr, who tries to hit on Melanie.



* CoolCar: The Mercedes Kalle orders while in prison and later pimps up. Well, at least he thinks it's a cool car.
* CounterfeitCash: Hilmi gives it to Keek and tells him to mix it with real money. "They screwed us, we screw someone else." Note: The money is ''so fake'' you even notice if you only glimpse at it.

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* CoolCar: CoolCar:
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The Mercedes 500 SEC Kalle orders while in prison and later pimps up. Well, at least he thinks it's a cool car.
** Some say that ''Bang Boom Bang'' made the "Knudsen" Taunus cool since Keek drives one, [[TheAllegedCar Alleged Car]] or not.
* CounterfeitCash: Hilmi gives it to Keek and tells him to mix it with real money. "They screwed us, we screw someone else." A circle, you know?" Note: The money is ''so fake'' and badly printed you even notice if you only glimpse at it.



* TheDanza: Hilmi Sözer as Hilmi

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* TheDanza: Hilmi Sözer as HilmiDisposingOfABody: Necessary in [[spoiler:Schlucke]]'s case.
** First, [[Ratte places Schlucke's corpse [[PunkInTheTrunk in Keek's car]]]] in order to avoid looking like his murderer (which he does anyway when Andy And Keek find the body).
** Next, Andy and Keek have to get rid of him and bury him in a forest. When they find out about the key to an airport locker full of money [[spoiler:stuck in his windpipe]], they exhume him again.



* DoubleEntendre: "Eingelocht", the title of the porn movie.

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* DoubleEntendre: "Eingelocht", ''Eingelocht'', the title of the porn movie.



* EasterEgg: The DVD also contains the short movie "Mafia, Pizza, Razzia" by Thorwarth.

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* EasterEgg: The DVD also contains the short movie "Mafia, ''Mafia, Pizza, Razzia" Razzia'' by Thorwarth.



* FatBastard: Kampmann sr.
* {{Fingore}}: When the frustrated Andy slams the safe door, Keek's thumb is severed. Making things more complicated: It's ''in the safe'' now, and the lock is damaged. In an emergency operation, it's reattached.
* ICouldaBeenAContender: Schlucke

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* FatBastard: Kampmann sr.
Werner Kampmann.
* {{Fingore}}: When the frustrated Andy slams kicks the safe door, door shut, Keek's thumb is severed. Making things more complicated: It's ''in the safe'' now, and the lock safe is damaged. In so warped that the door can't be opened anymore. Keek's main sorrow is that his fingerprint is now in the safe; he could just as well have left a business card behind. Keek and Andy have to have the safe ''welded'' open, and in an emergency operation, it's reattached.
* HandCannon: Kalle loves huge pistols.
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ICouldaBeenAContender: SchluckeSchlucke.



* InsuranceFraud: Kampmann likes to do this.
* JadedWashout: Schlucke
* LovableLoser: Keek

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* InsuranceFraud: Kampmann likes tries to do this.
pull this off by having Schlucke stage a burglary in his company. Schlucke, bumbling but not as stupid as Kampmann believes, decides to get his payback for 20 years of mistreatment by ''actually'' breaking in and stealing something ''very'' valuable.
* JadedWashout: Schlucke
Schlucke.
* LovableLoser: KeekKeek.



* PunkInTheTrunk: [[spoiler:After Schlucke asphyxiated on the locker key, Ratte panicks and [[DisposingOfABody stuffs his corpse]]]] into the trunk of Keek's Taunus.



* TheStoner: Keek
* StupidCrooks: Keek really isn't that competent.

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* ShoutOut: When Keek calls Kampmann to try to blackmail some money from him, he calls himself Ned Flanders. Since Kampmann doesn't know ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Keek has to explain what an honest guy Ned Flanders is.
* StealTheSurroundings: When Andy and Keek discover that Kampmann's safe (with Keeks [[{{Fingore}} thumb]] in it) cannot be opened anymore, they have to get it somewhere where it can be cut open. So they tie a chain around it, attach the other end on Keek's Taunus and drag it out of the office building and through "half the Ruhrgebiet". It has been on the second floor, and the first thing it hits after being dragged through the outer wall is Max Kampmann's BMW.
* TheStoner: Keek
Keek -- level: [[Film/TheBigLebowski Dude]].
* StupidCrooks: StupidCrooks:
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Keek really isn't that competent.competent.
** Neither is Schlucke who wants to steal the safe key from Kampmann while [[InsuranceFraud staging the burglary]], and who is stupid enough to reveal first to Andy and Keek and then to the actual gangster Ratte that he's "planning something himself". Among other things, this leads to these three finding Kampmann's storage empty (which Schlucke knew all along).
===>'''Andy:''' "Schlucke, what are we supposed to steal here, the forklift?"



* [[BriefcaseFullOfMoney Suitcase Full Of Money]]: What Keek wants from Kampmann.

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* BriefcaseFullOfMoney: Stashed away in an airport locker. [[spoiler:At least everyone except Melanie thinks so.]]
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[[BriefcaseFullOfMoney Suitcase Full Of Money]]: What Keek wants from Kampmann.



* WriteWhatYouKnow: Thorwarth's father was a German policeman and told him many interesting stories from work. Of all the German criminal movies, this is one of the most realistic.

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* WriteWhatYouKnow: Thorwarth's father was a German policeman and told him many interesting stories from work. Of all the German criminal movies, this is one of the most realistic.VanityLicensePlate: Keek's Taunus has DO[[note]]for Dortmund[[/note]]-PE 69.



* YourCheatingHeart: Manuela - Kalle's wife who works in a video store - doesn't see why she shouldn't have sex while her husband is doing time. "Am I supposed to live like a nun?" However, acting in a porn movie may have been too much. ----

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* YourCheatingHeart: Manuela - Kalle's wife who works in a video store - doesn't see why she shouldn't have sex while her husband is doing time. "Am I supposed to live like a nun?" However, acting in a porn movie may have been too much. much.
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I supposed to live like a nun?" However, acting in a porn movie may have been too much.



* YourCheatingHeart: Manuela - Kalle's wife who works in a video store - doesn't see why she shouldn't have sex while her husband is doing time. "Am ----

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* YourCheatingHeart: Manuela - Kalle's wife who works in a video store - doesn't see why she shouldn't have sex while her husband is doing time. "Am I supposed to live like a nun?" However, acting in a porn movie may have been too much. ----
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* StopHelpingMe: When Keek and Schlucke buy the car for Kalle from the Danish gang, Andy joins them, to check whether the car is in order. Unfortunately they didn't tell him that they want to pay with fake money and have to pull this through as fast as possible.
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''Bang Boom Bang'' is a German comedy movie from 1999, directed and written by Peter Thorwarth. It's the first part of his "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unna Unna]] Trilogy".

In short: It's a dirty, but very funny movie about small criminals - a bit like an early Creator/GuyRitchie movie transplanted to Germany. For the full plot, see [[Synopsis/BangBoomBang the synopsis]].

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* TheAlcoholic: Schlucke.
* TheAllegedCar: Keek's mint-green Ford Taunus. After the movie, it's in even worse shape.
* AxCrazy: Kalle is dangerous.
* BadBoss: Kampmann sr.
* BadGuysPlayPool: And make porn movies on pool tables.
* BerserkButton: Kalle doesn't react well when he learns that his wife appeared in a home porn movie.
** Don't throw your cigarette butt into Schlucke's grave. Andy still has some respect left for the old guy.
* BlackComedy: Especially the scenes around the funeral.
* TheCameo: German star Til Schweiger plays a footballer (with fake dreadlocks and in blackface). The director also has one.
* CasanovaWannabe: Kampmann jr, who tries to hit on Melanie.
* ChekhovsGun: The video. Melanie's cell phone.
* [[ChekhovsGunman Chekhov's Gunwoman]]: Melanie, intern in Kampmann's firm, who likes to play around with her cell phone. [[spoiler:Which she uses to film Kampmann when he enters the combination.]]
* CoolCar: The Mercedes Kalle orders while in prison and later pimps up. Well, at least he thinks it's a cool car.
* CounterfeitCash: Hilmi gives it to Keek and tells him to mix it with real money. "They screwed us, we screw someone else." Note: The money is ''so fake'' you even notice if you only glimpse at it.
* CrimeAfterCrime: After breaking in at Kampmann's, stealing the safe and demolishing the building to do so, they also have to destroy a radar trap they were caught on.
* TheDanza: Hilmi Sözer as Hilmi
* DistractedByTheSexy: [[spoiler:Melanie and her friend appear in bikinis (they're going to Spain after all), so the men at the x-ray machine don't notice the huge stack of paper money in her bag.]]
* DoubleEntendre: "Eingelocht", the title of the porn movie.
* DumbBlonde: Melanie, intern in Kampmann's firm. As Kampmann says, she was only hired for having perfect 90-60-90 measurements. [[spoiler:Subverted - at the end, she takes the money!]]
* EasterEgg: The DVD also contains the short movie "Mafia, Pizza, Razzia" by Thorwarth.
* EatTheEvidence: Schlucke with the [[spoiler:key for the locker. It's what kills him.]]
* FatBastard: Kampmann sr.
* {{Fingore}}: When the frustrated Andy slams the safe door, Keek's thumb is severed. Making things more complicated: It's ''in the safe'' now, and the lock is damaged. In an emergency operation, it's reattached.
* ICouldaBeenAContender: Schlucke
* ImportantHaircut: After breaking out, Kalle cuts off his long hair. And gets a way too deep tan at the tanning studio.
* InsuranceFraud: Kampmann likes to do this.
* JadedWashout: Schlucke
* LovableLoser: Keek
* LoveInterest: Melanie and Andy. [[spoiler:It doesn't work out.]]
* [[MeaningfulName Meaningful Nickname]]: "Schlucke" bluntly hints that he's got a drinking problem. "Ratte"... see: YouDirtyRat.
* MyGirlIsNotASlut: Kalle expects this from Manuela. The reality is the very opposite.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Keek (real name: Dirk), Schlucke, Ratte
* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: The safe combination is 90-60-90 (Melanie's measurements, 36-24-36 in inches).
* PoliceAreUseless: Definitely in the one scene where they appear in Keek's apartment to look for Kalle. All the time, he's lying under the couch. And then, one policeman tries to flip a cigarette and catch it with his mouth, drops it on the floor next to Kalle - but then decides to not pick it up.
** Later, they manage to [[spoiler:shoot Kalle and arrest Kampmann.]] It's like realistic police work: They catch some criminals, other ones... not.
I supposed to live like a nun?" However, acting in a porn movie may have been too much.
* {{Safecracking}}: Keek, of all people, can do it. [[spoiler:Not however if one of his thumbs is ripped off.]]
* TheStoner: Keek
* StopHelpingMe: When Keek and Schlucke buy the car for Kalle from the Danish gang, Andy joins them, to check whether the car is in order. Unfortunately they didn't tell him that they want to pay with fake money and have to pull this through as fast as possible.
* StupidCrooks: Keek really isn't that competent.
* [[TropicalEpilogue Subtropical Epilogue]]: [[spoiler:Noone but Melanie]] in Mallorca, Spain.
* [[BriefcaseFullOfMoney Suitcase Full Of Money]]: What Keek wants from Kampmann.
* TrunkShot: As a ShoutOut to ''Film/PulpFiction''.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: Thorwarth's father was a German policeman and told him many interesting stories from work. Of all the German criminal movies, this is one of the most realistic.
* YouDirtyRat: One of the criminals is nicknamed "Ratte".
* YourCheatingHeart: Manuela - Kalle's wife who works in a video store - doesn't see why she shouldn't have sex while her husband is doing time. "Am ----

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