Küssen verboten, baggern erlaubt (2003)

Human pursuits at their most primal transcend cultural and geographical barriers, especially an endeavor so essential to man's well-being as mixed-doubles beach volleyball when presented in the teen-comedy setting. Scripted by the hip young American writing team of Rob Churchill and Bob McCabe and directed by Teutonic wunderkind Lars Montag for a presentation on German television, Küssen verboten, baggern erlaubt (2003) is an allegory in which school spirit symbolizes the human struggle to overcome the infernal impulse to eat a ton of carbs and bloat up into a big cow. In this tournament of bouncing balls and babes in bikinis--called in English The Virgin Club--the only losers are player-hating dumbkopfs who fail to realize that the secret to a happy life's fulfillment is a taut belly and a mellow sun block.