Gangsters disguised as janitors rob diamonds from a museum and hide them in a motorized tricycle. However, two tricycles are given to Tommy and Mike as a reward for being the 100,000th costumers at a car fair. Tommy and Mike thus decide to travel south for a vacation, and pick up two hitchhikers: nurse Birgit and circus artist Farah. They are followed by the gangsters who assault Tommy and Mike, but then find out they gave the diamonds to Birgit and Farah, so they go back to retrieve them. They get one diamond from Birgit in the hospital, and then go to a circus to visit Farah. The gangsters attack them there, but get arrested by the police. Tommy and Mike are pleased, but then an elephant takes the diamond and eats it, so they go around after it, waiting for it to defecate it back.
The sequel to the, for some reason, popular hit comedy "Die Supernasen" ("Super Noses") proved even more successful when it sold over 6,000,000 tickets at the German box office, yet it is still unsuccessful as a movie on its own, turning essentially into a weak comedy in which nobody wanted to invest a little more effort in conjurng up better jokes. "Zwei Nases tanken Super" ("Two Noses refuel Super") has a few good gags in the opening act: it is, for instance, amusing how the gangsters managed to perpetrate the heist in the museum (they disguised themselves as janitors, made a hole in the glass and then just used the vacuum cleaner to suck the diamonds in); the first introduction of the two protagonists, Tommy and Mike, has charm, since Mike needs to urinate outside, but wherever he goes, he has no privacy (he goes to a bush, but a bum emerges and asks him not to disturb him; he goes to a wall, but an old lady is angrily observing him through the window; so he finally decides to enter a fair, jumping across a long line to buy a ticket, where they both win a prize); whereas the sequence where the four passengers randmoly stop their tricycles at a meadow at night and go to sleep inside a tent, but then wake up in the morning and realize they camped in the middle of a grass field on a football stadium, is funny. Sadly, after 30 minutes, the movie runs out of jokes, and all we are left with are a boring hour of nothing, of a tiresome plot where the gangsters chase the heroes. Not one of the three locations they go through (hospital, art gallery, circus) offer any inspiration for the writers to place them in any amusing situation. It is almost as if the producers had an outline for the plot (gangsters chase the heroes to get diamonds) and sent a memo to the writers: "Write some jokes in between these chases". But the writers didn't get the memo. The only reason to see the film is Simone Brahmann, who later gained fame as a great German voice actress.
Grade:+
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