Hey everyone, Dana here! And so I came to Hamburg and one of the reasons that I wanted
to come here was to come out and make some videos with Trixi. So I'm really excited to
be here collaborating with her. She's from the YouTube channel Don't Trust The Rabbit.
So if you don't know her videos yet, what are you waiting for? All the information to
her channel down in the description box below. She talks about the German culture, the English
language, German language. Just all sorts of cool stuff, so be sure to check it out.
And so today, one of the videos that we're making, I'm really excited about, I've been wanting
to make a video on this topic for a while, but I didn't really know how to do it just
by myself. So I'm happy to have Trixi here to help me with it. - Gonna back you up. - Yeah.
We've got kind of a quiz going on about movie titles. So you've got the American movie title,
the original title, and then sometimes the title that you have here in Germany, sometimes
it's in German. And sometimes it's a completely different English title. So yeah, we're gonna
look at some of the, the more interesting ones.
So for the first one, let's start with something kind of dark here. Dark and creepy. The German
title of this movie is Friedhof der Kuscheltiere. Have you heard of it? - I think it's by Stephen
King. - Yeah. Exactly. The book by Stephen King. So, what is the original English title of
that movie? I'll give you three, three choices. Okay, okay that's great.
So, the first choice is an exact translation: Cemetery of Stuffed Animals. The second one
is Dead Animals...or are they? - So eerie. - And the third one is Pet Cemetery.
It's, it's, it's okay because I know that one. - Okay. - It's Pet Cemetery. But I, I actually think the
first one would have been great. - But, yeah. that's a funny German title, right?
Yeah. - It literally is cemetery of stuff animals right? - It shouldn't be stuffed animals.
Yeah, I wonder if someone did something wrong. - Right! - Like they translated it wrong because it's
like about dead animals. - Yeah! - And they were like Kuscheltiere must be pets. - Yeah! - But
it's actually stuffed animals. - It's stuffed animals, yeah. - So I don't know if they maybe just...
Exactly! I was really confused about that because it doesn't make sense. So if you don't
know the movie, it's about these real pets that get killed and then come back to life.
But it doesn't have anything to do - Pet zombies. - Yeah, but it doesn't have anything to do with stuffed animals.
Mr. German Man helped me with this. We made this crown. Now, I'm not sure if wearing the
crown will be a prize at the end of the video or, um, a punishment if she doesn't get enough
answers right. So I think probably no matter what she'll be wearing the crown at the end of the video. Alright.
Okay so now the other way around. The American title of the movie is What Planet are you From?
Okay. - What is the German title? Good Vibrations - Sex vom anderen Stern.
Two: Von welchem Planeten sind Sie? So an exact translation.
Or it's just the same. It's What Planet are you From?
Okay. Um, I would say something, it's like A or C. - Uh-huh. - Because B I don't think that
they would use the formal, um, Sie in a title. - Oh, okay! So bad translation Dana. - I mean
the Germans are, polite, but I don't think they would be that polite in German titles.
Okay. - Um, it would be a little bit boring if you
just picked a title that is just the same but maybe it's also a trick question, but
I'm still gonna go with A because Germans usually take really ridiculous German movie
titles. And something with sex and stuff like that. - Yeah you're correct. You're correct.
Exactly. Exactly. Um, yeah. They, and actually, I haven't seen this movie but I looked up
the preview to see what it was about and it does have to do with this alien guy who comes
and has to try to find a women to have sex with. But yeah -- that makes sense, that's
something that happens every day, right? - The English title didn't have it in it, but the
German title just yeah, stuck it right in there. Oh stuck it right in there!
Alright, now how about, ah, a more recent one. Voll auf die Nüsse. - Okay. - What is the
original title? One: In the Nuts. Two: Men with Balls. Or three: Dodgeball.
I like B because it just sounds like men with balls! - Yeah. - I thought, like, men would never
have balls. Let's watch that movie, something so specific. - Surprise!
What was the C again? C was Dodgeball. Dodgeball, that sounds like a typical, like, American movie
title to me. And the first one was like the literal translation, basically. Or at least
like the...the equivalent. - The best that Dana could come up with. - So - Okay. - So I guess
that is gonna be C. - Yeah, you got it right. So it's Dodgeball. So Voll auf die Nüsse.
Is that a play on words or no? Be...does...? - Not really. Nuts is just like the balls. - Okay,
so it is like Eier. Yeah. - It's kind of slang in the same way. - It's like Eier. - Okay.
Yeah, you can say like Nüsse, Eier. - Okay. - Sack. - So in, in her video we talked about penis
and now here we're talking about balls. - Yeah, it's just great. - Yeah...
Okay, so maybe you have seen the movie posters around town, it's a more recent video. Um
it's with Amy Schumer. - Movie I guess. - Yeah, more recent movie and it's called in English
Dating Queen. That's the German title. - Uh-huh. - It's an English title in Germany. - Okay.
We sometimes do that. - So what was the original English title?
Was it Super Dater? - Ooooh
Was it Queen of the Dates?
Or was it Trainwreck?
Hm, what was the first one again? - Super Dater - Short term memory.
Um, Super Dater. That's, I don't know, that sounds like superperforator advertisement.
Ah, Super Dater is a little bit too cheesy. - Okay. - I mean it's American movie titles, but
ah, I don't know. And the second one was that... - The second one was Queen of the Dates. - Queen of
the Dates is like the literal translation then right? - From English to English. - So, basically,
just like you put the words differently. - Exactly. - So I think that's also not it. - Ah, she's good!
Trainwreck is just so unrelated - Yeah - to all of the things that I think that you didn't
make it up. - Yeah, that's right. - I'm basically just analyzing you psychologically.
Yeah, exactly. She's really good. - That's what you have to deal with when
you do videos with someone who studied that. - So afterwards I'm going to lay down on
the couch and I can tell you my problems. - Exactly.
And you can help me work through it. - There's the couch right over there. - Yeah.
Now going back in the day to my teen years a little bit. Did you that Britney Spears
starred in a movie? - Yes. - You do? Okay. So the original English title is Crossroads.
Okay. - What was the German title? Or is the German title? And it again is in English.
So this is a - Okay, okay. - German title but in English.
Is the German title: Trying to Decide. - Ah.
Life Choices.
Or: Not a Girl.
They are all horrible. At least I could camouflage it this time. - The first one, the first one
is the worst. I could imagine someone calling his movie like that. So profound. But I remember
that movie - Okay - and it's Not a Girl. Okay, alright.
I think she also had a song like that. - Exactly, so. - And then the movie came and then you could
have the song and the movie and be a complete Britney Spears fan. - But the interesting thing
is, the English title Crossroads - Yeah. - is about someone who's trying to decide what they're
going to do. And so, yeah, I thought it was interesting, the German title Not a girl... - Uh-huh.
But the interesting thing to me here is that the song I think is Not a Girl, Not
Yet a Woman. - Yeah. - And that last part is very important. Because the title just - Yeah - Not
a Girl. Kind of just standing alone. - I'm not a girl. Well what are you then? - Yeah, exactly. It's kind
of missing something. - It's like Men with Balls. - Yeah. It's like, Not a Girl. Okay...
Let's not talk about what you are. - Yeah, exactly. It needs that last part of Not Yet a Woman.
So... - Pretty much, yeah.
And lastly we have the German title Ein Zwilling Kommt Selten Allein. Do you know that movie?
With Lindsay Lohan. - Yeah, exactly! - I'm not good with movies. - So, what about the original
English title? Is it A Twin Rarely Comes Alone? The Parent Trap. Or Hey, You Look Familiar.
The last one is so made up! - What gave that away?
You should plan a career on making movies titles. - I know, yeah.
So the second one was mother trap and the first one was - The Parent Trap. - The Parent Trap.
The Parent Trap and the first one is A Twin Rarely Comes Alone. - Okay. That's a
little bit difficult because I don't, I don't know. It's something between these two. The
Parent's Trap would be a little bit weird because I think in the movie, did they actually
trick their parents? Because that's like an older German movie that I remember. I'm gonna
go for A. I'm gonna say that this is actually a translation that is similar to, to German.
She finally got one wrong! - No! - It's called The Parent Trap. - Really? - Yeah, it's called The
Parent Trap, and the interesting thing was, when I was doing the research for this video,
I found that the Disney film is actually based on a story by Erich Kästner. - Yeah, Das Doppelte
Lottchen. - Yeah, so I had no idea. And it's interesting that nobody went with that title.
Yeah, and it's a little bit, it's a little bit weird because, I mean, Parent Trap could be everything, and,
I mean, the most important part of this movie is like that they are twins. - Yeah. - That's
like the whole thing. And Lindsay Lohan played herself twice. - Exactly. - So, let's like,
make this the most important thing of the title. No, let's call it Parent Trap, which
could be everything. - I think they should go with Hey, You Look Familiar! Hey! You look
familiar. That's an appropriate reaction, I guess.
Okay, so to be honest, I actually completely forgot to keep track of how many she got right
or wrong, but I think you only got, like, one wrong. - I got one wrong, wrong one. - Yeah. So I think that you,
you won the crown. - Oh, so that's great - Here you go. - So, it's actually
a good thing now. - Yeah! It's a good thing.
You decided that it's a good thing. - Yeah, It's a prize, it's a prize. - It's so beautiful.
It's so beautiful. - Um, thank you. Ah some of the stickers don't seem to like the
warmth. - And have you seen there's even a little rabbit on there. You can trust this one by
the way but don't trust me. - So, da, da, da, da. - I'm the untrustworthy rabbit. Is it normal
that the queen crowns herself? Ah, I have like a little bit of. - Yeah. - I have a sticker
on my finger now. - Yeah, that's the thing, it gives off it's sticker. - The crown already
doesn't like me. That's great. - Beautiful. Lovely.
So our question for you is: What other crazy, funny, or weird movie translations have you
seen out there in the world from any language? Please let us know in the comments below.
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Um, I'm gonna go with A, the hat. Because if you're dead, you know, you have to give
up your hat. You can't wear it anymore. - Is that like an official rule in America? - Yeah,
yeah, no hats when... - Come on, you died. - You're dead, gimme the hat. Gimme the hat back, yeah. When
you're born you get a hat, and then when you die, you have to
give back the hat. - I didn't know that. - Yeah.
So our question for you is: Do you... Answer in the comments down below. - Exactly. Make
up a question. - And tell us what that means. - Exactly. Thanks so much for watching. Oh I
have to ask a question!
Um, so what is the original English title? Is it, oh by the...wait, this doesn't make any sense.
And so today one of the videos that we're making is about...I have no idea.
What are we doing? Video titles!