''New Kids Nitro'' is 2011 Dutch zombie horror-

comedy film The comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor. These films are designed to amuse audiences and make them laugh. Films in this genre typically have a happy ending, with dark comedy being an exception to this rule. Comedy is one of the o ...

based on the sketch series ''

New Kids ''New Kids'' is a Dutch comedy sketch series about a group of anti-social youths from Maaskantje, a village in the southern province of North Brabant. It was created by and . The show was first shown on ''Flabber.nl'', a Dutch blog, as a succe ...

''. It is a sequel to the 2010 film ''

New Kids Turbo ''New Kids Turbo'', sometimes promoted as ''New Kids: Turbo!'', is a 2010 Dutch Action comedy, action-comedy film based on the television series ''New Kids''. The film premiered on 6 December 2010 and was released in all Dutch cinemas on 9 Decem ...

''. Like the previous film, It's written and directed by Steffen Haars and Flip van der Kuil, who starred with

Tim Haars Tim Haars (born 6 November 1981 in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the lar ...

, Huub Smit and Wesley van Gaalen. Filming took place in Maaskantje, Netersel,

Den Dungen Den Dungen is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is located in the municipality of Sint-Michielsgestel next to the village Maaskantje. History The village was first mentioned in 1300 as "Super Donghen prope Buscum", and means ...

Den Bosch s-Hertogenbosch (), colloquially known as Den Bosch (), is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Netherlands with a population of 160,783. It is the capital of ...

and

Schijndel Schijndel () is a town and former municipality in the province of North Brabant, in the south of the Netherlands. Schijndel is located approximately southeast of 's-Hertogenbosch. Schijndel was founded on 6 December 1309. On 1 January 2017 Schijn ...

. The film premiered in Eindhoven on 6 December 2011 and was released on 8 December by

Benelux Film Distributors Benelux Film Distributors, also known as Benelux Film Distributors Home Entertainment, BFD and BFDHE, was a joint venture of various independent film distributors founded in 2006. They marketed a wide range of films in cinemas and on home video i ...

. The film won a

Golden Film The Golden Film () is a film award recognizing domestic box office achievements in the Netherlands. The Golden Film is awarded to films from the Netherlands once they have sold . The award is an initiative by the Netherlands Film Festival and t ...

award for 100.000 visitors.

Plot

Cast

* Huub Smit as Richard Batsbak *

as Gerrie van Boven * Wesley van Gaalen as Rikkert Biemans * Steffen Haars as Robbie Schuurmans * Flip van der Kuil as Barrie Butsers

Supporting cast

* Guido Pollemans as D'n Dave * Juliette van Ardenne as Deborah * Jos van Oss as Knoet * Juul Vrijdag as Corrie Batsbak * Max van den Burg as Ronnie * Bart de Rijk as Adrie Agent * Ruud Matthijsen as Henk van Boven * Daan van Dijsseldonk as Peter Vernhout * Filip Bolluyt as Chief of police *

Peter Faber Peter Faber, SJ (, ) (13 April 1506 – 1 August 1546) was a Savoyard Catholic priest, theologian and co-founder of the Society of Jesus, along with Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier. Pope Francis announced his canonization in 2013. Life Ea ...

as Minister of Defence

Cameos

Marlayne Marleen Sahupala (née van den Broek; born 1 July 1971), known professionally as Marlayne or Marlayne Sahupala, is a Dutch singer, television presenter and newsreader. She is known for representing the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest ...

* Maureen du Toit *

Paul Elstak Paul Roger Elstak (known professionally as DJ Paul Elstak; born 14 January 1966 in The Hague) is a Dutch hardcore/gabber and happy hardcore DJ and record producer of Surinamese descent. He used to use his full name to create happy hardcore a ...

* Corry Konings *

Peter Aerts Peter Aerts (born 25 October 1970) is a Dutch retired kickboxer. Known for his devastating high kicks, which earned him the nickname "The Dutch Lumberjack", he is widely considered to be one of the greatest heavyweight kickboxers of all time. B ...

Release

Critical response

Floortje Smit of ''

de Volkskrant ''De Volkskrant'' (; ), stylized as de Volkskrant, is a Dutch daily morning newspaper. Founded in 1919, it has a nationwide circulation of about 250,000. Formerly a leading centre-left Catholic broadsheet, ''de Volkskrant'' today is a medium- ...

'' gave the film a mixed review and wrote "The aura of loosely improvised banter is a bit off. As a result, ''New Kids Nitro'' is a better film quality wise, but it has less of the shitty-to-all attitude that hardcore fans are so fond of".

Home media

The film was released on

Blu-ray Blu-ray (Blu-ray Disc or BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format designed to supersede the DVD format. It was invented and developed in 2005 and released worldwide on June 20, 2006, capable of storing several hours of high-defin ...

and

DVD The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 1995 and first released on November 1, 1996, in Japan. The medium can store any ki ...

on 24 April 2012.

References

External links

* * {{Comedy Central Films 2010s Dutch-language films Comedy Central films Benelux Film Distributors films Dutch comedy films Dutch sequel films Films based on television series Films scored by Tom Holkenborg Films set in the Netherlands Dutch zombie films