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Mad Heidi (2023)

 


Mad Heidi is a grindhouse movie taken as seriously as a pineapple under the sea.

The film is set in an alternate Earth where instead of Germany having a crazed dictator it's Switzerland. There are cheese and chocolate jokes as well as plenty of over-the-top kills. People's heads explode, a man is killed with a particular triangularly shaped chocolate bar. Instead of waterboarding, they use cheese fondu. It's all very silly.

The film stars Alice Lucy in a sort of Inglorious Bastards style revenge but this time with a lot of nonsense. She's a girl boss at heart and any sense of this movie having a romantic counterpart is blown out of the picture very early. She meets a girl named Klara played by Almar G. Sato. While Lucy hasn't been in much, Sato has a bit more under her belt, nothing anyone has seen though. Also there Rebecca Dyson-Smith, who plays a prominent prison guard Lutz. You might recognize her from Six Wives with Lucy Worsley as she played Anne of Cleves. 

The guy they got to play the Swiss equivalent of Hitler is played by none other than Casper Van Dien. What? You don't recognize the name? Let me save you a Google search. He's the dude, the main character, from Starship Troopers.

At some point the cheese jokes got old but I have a small feeling this film will have a cult following at some point. Result: B-

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