TL;DR – An amusingly chaotic film of a birthday party that falls apart, one disaster after another.
Post-Credit Scene – There is no post-credit scene.
Disclosure – I paid for the Netflix subscription used to watch this film.
The Birthday Gift Review Introduction
When I sat down to watch a film tonight, I knew it had to be a comedy, because this had been a week, a very, very, very long week. I needed a film to capture some chaotic fun, a series of calamities of humorous effect. For this, I decided to make a trip up to Germany, where a birthday party becomes a disaster.
So, to set the scene, we open on a house in a complete state of disaster. 18 hours earlier, the whole family and assorted children were descending on Marlene’s (Jeanne Goursaud) House to celebrate her son Theo’s (Levin Wopp) 9th birthday. He has been bullied due to some health issues growing up, and Marlene hopes this party will help him find some new friends. Though she probably should not have invited some of the terrors, little serial killers. It is a wave of disasters that descends on an unsuspecting house as personalities, world views, surprises and woefully inappropriate presents arrive. There is a reason I run my presents for my nieces and nephews by my siblings beforehand.
