The word "Extrawurst" translates literally as "extra sausage", but it means figuratively "special treatment".
The film opens at a committee meeting of a golf club. The chairman is merely rubber-stamping [durchwinken] the decisions he makes, not giving the vice-chairman a chance to get a word in edgeways [auch mal zum Wort kommen]. Just when they want to wrap up the meeting, a woman gets up and proposes buying a second barbecue grill so that the Muslims don't have to eat food that has been cooked on the same grill that has had pork sausages on it.
The chairman points out that the golf club has only one Muslim member and the man in question says he is quite happy with the current situation and doesn't need any special treatment.
This is all in the first 5 minutes or so... and then the argument really kicks off. And continues for the next 40 or 45 minutes - non-stop. Really. Just as you think they've calmed down and have agreed on a solution, then everything flares up [aufflackern] again.
The insults and accusations each of the five main characters throw at each other are very close to the true thoughts of many man and woman in the street. I've heard or read these thoughts and ideas over the years coming out of the mouths of ordinary people. It was shocking to hear them all come out, relentlessly, one after the other. You couldn't laugh. Really, you couldn't.
The only bit of laughter from me was when a ball machine that was being repaired in the maintenance man's small room suddenly started up and balls went flying all around the room, sometimes actually hitting the people inside it.
Another woman laughed as a chairlift at Hape Kerkeling's home went wrong and threw him onto the floor and against a wall. She laughed for at least 5 minutes. Meanwhile, I'm sitting there aghast [fassungslos] and wondering how someone can laugh at someone's physical discomfort.
One more bit of slapstick [Klamauk] was yet to come towards the end of the film: a woman in a wheelchair rolls down a gentle slope and lands in a pond. Oh, what larks [was für einene Spaß]. Or maybe not.
And this film is classed as a comedy. Right. Pull the other one, it's got bells on.
For a taste of what the film was like, watch the trailer:
