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"Pure delight! The Berlin scene at its wildest, kinkiest, weirdest, funniest best. The discovery of the season! Why aren't there more films like this?!!" 

Ron Holloway (Moving Pictures)

"very refreshing"

Leo Bankersen, De Filmkrant

"I've rarely seen people respond so positively to a film... the audience were whooping and cheering, clapping with hands in the air..."

James Rice (Head of Screenings Edinburgh Film Festival)

"...like American Pie (without the prudish American restrictions) in the visual style of À Bout de Souffle... a glorious shambles of bad taste and street humour, an exploration of youth culture in a city that eats, breathes and shits stories... anarchic entertainment... great fun and a cult hit waiting to happen."  

Eye for Film, George Williamson

"... a riot of filthy-minded fun ... packed with affectionate digs and in-jokes about contemporary Berlin and the misfits and black sheep who gravitate there. Youthful, energetic and defiantly in your face, Black Sheep is powered by punk rock spirit and overheated libido... an anarchic multi-stranded odyssey that gives Clerks 2 a run for its money on the sexual deviancy front.

Wendy Ide in "The Times" and "Times On-Line"

'It's clever, sick, twisted and more controversial than a dozen Jerry Springer Operas. In short I absolutely loved it!'

Chris Grant, Netribution co. uk

"I enjoyed the film a lot. I hooted with laughter so loudly at the granny scene at the end of the film that half the videotheque turned round to look at me"

Damon Smith, PA Entertainment/Attitude 

from an Edinburgh video-pre-screening

"Black Sheep was definitely the most provocative film I saw at the festival. Having said that it was, as a result, one of the most shockingly hilarious. It genuinely received the greatest number of horrified belly laughs of any press screening I attended"

Marshall Veniar (Glasgow Herald writer)

"messy, punky, shambolic and fun"

Kaleem Aftab, Hotdog

"Black Sheep provides laughter in areas that we shouldn’t really laugh at but at the end of the day just can’t help ourselves. We know it’s wrong but it’s just so damn funny. Journeying through a monochromatic Berlin, we encounter different characters from different parts of the city... From the trio of horny Turkish teenagers to the world’s worst Satanists, the set-ups are completely ridiculous but with these characters, utterly believable. So buy your Granny a big bunch of flowers, leave any sense of good taste that you may have at the door and enjoy the trip!"

Matt Harris, Sky Movie News

"An eclectic, madcap bleat into Europe's coolest city!"  

Kaleem Aftab, Hotdog

"Anarchic, energetic, scatalogical, but well-meaning...just like a night out in Berlin!"  

Phil Hoad, Dazed & Confused

"I really enjoyed it, the outrageous, bad taste humour and the punk spirit reminded me of Clerks... It's great fun!"

Virginie Guichard, What's on in London

"Refreshingly irreverent and definitely the most daringly original comedy to come out of Germany in a long time." 

Robert Fischer, Munich Film Festival

"Very funny and extremely entertaining..."  

Heinz Badewitz, Hof Film Festival

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