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people @ found the foll`?owing !@commen
=t useful*:/.　　A brilliant and o-_utr\@agously *
]funny satire of societ]) y, $ $-#.7 ;$#!Dec%embe/r 19`$`99　　Auth]
or: Dave Joer ^g (joer^)@d00#[email protected])　::%=　&qu!otFlodder"_`

-is one of the$!., funnie)`._st.` mov.\ies ev;_+er!$. , made +and few people realise that ]it +^is a %]%Dutch ?m^:ovie ma\de by none oth[er than the Holland vers:ion of John Carp$e
:nter, t/ ?_he famous Dick Maas, `;] au\th`!-or an?d direc (:tor !_of the_$
*,#thriller "A!mst/
erdamned". T,+he; Flodder f=?amily is the reincarn ,ation of the, !+t(!erm =a-(_s - ocial?:*. Whe^=n the:! whole family bu:$nch, basically all bast\;ards, crimina:`ls an !d )\\sl\$uts m]%:ust be relocated from their Ci_.!ty#!-- s#/lum becau$\se of toxic wa /ste /-un$der *t heir house, t;$ h=\#e city council house no ch+^oice. The only available spa+ ]ce is ^)in th e &q``%uotZoendal" -!/ the ".Sun V?alle,y" -th!-e bes-@t a ?[rea in Am^sterdam  wh=e ,re all d\_%#octors, snobs
and businessmen c;an aff%/ord to live t$^heir li;`ve`#@s. :And whe!re :the ce[[,ntr
_*/al*# point of [,interest and pol*i*\
[tics is the . tennis cl[ub of  the# commu ;n-ity. T he Flodder famil )y, brings de -vas#@_ta tion to the tranquil worl- \^d th:%at ruled be]fo--r);::e/. /!They ar[ e [[simp[;%ly )u@`,nbelievabl,?e. The characterisation is incredibly funny, beginn`i-ng .wi^-th Ma?(+ F;,lo^ dder who )sea[rches%. o\(`ther people' #.s /tras+ h$ cans for.@ foo $;d or making illegal  l]iquor 
in
%! her c\$?ellar and/=$ e)#nding%!\ wit-@/h the(+% eld#( )est] )@ daughter ==who  is ` the biggest slut on earth. Together they make the most horri]?ble
. f%amily -,?,imaginable, a sort of i mmo)ral mirror image/@ to th\e Brady B;unch$ o$# r the Waltons. When the City counsel %^?of A@%_msterdam])+ hope+ d t@*,
ha(%t the Flodde+rs+ would show their go :_*od will to  be %.more ^civil)]_i sed 
in (th ^ei:-`,r[]- new-# ]a:rea*^_, it turn(s *.;out th;at:] * Holland;(^'s m;ost \
f% +am ;ous f] am-ily#`$ wo^uld rather.^ bring%, out t.*@ he wo$rst in th e r?ic_#h peop=+le o+f "-Sun ^`(Val(%)_l ey"-wonder)land% !. The_; rest is a h
\ila rious, brilliant and
well made social/ satire that c

an +be watched @as a provoca`(tive movie as well as a.) straightforwa-]@rd comedy. Dick Maas(* at his b*es?t. I s;-alute hi^m! Flooder was the Dutch smash ;=h*$it i!;+n 19@_86 and br o)_ugh]!t two seq ue@ls and a tv +@-series. A
ll=_ of the ;sequels ]%* were; nice but/ not as g%.rea./t as= the original.　　Flodders (=[1986) is $)av
:ailable on:, DVD in Germany+ + in ;

a dubbed German version in(+ Dolby Dig%@ital 5.1. under the name:$[/　　"Flodder%!s -:Eine Fam\ilie zum knutsc-hen&q\`;/uot　　Why is ./First F`loor Featur`_=es, t/+@he p#=ro;du^cer/ of the movi[-?e n`)ot bri_ nging ?
t(]h#e Dick+,$ Maas blockbu #s;.;ter$
s out _@ on,!; DV ?D in the Ne@@:th^-**e,rla^-nds, /^*I wonder. The are ;:# not even available on vid ;eo there. These m+ ovie^ @_s #have#- so mu?+ch pot*ent\
ial[@!,[ st
%.#il-*`l to this`

[!day and/ !,,have a /($huge silent!( but true follow``(ing.