Gib Gas – Ich will Spass showcases the music of its two main stars, Nena and Markus Mörl, who had an affair during the making of the film.

[5] The film also includes Nena and Markus's "exclusive" version of his German top 5 hit "Kleine Taschenlampe brenn'",[4] the female sections of which were sung in the original by Andrea-Maria Schneider.

Markus and Nena performed the song live at the 2002 concert marking 20 years since the release of "Nur geträumt"[6] Contemporary reviews of the film were damning.

In Der Tagesspiegel Carla Rhode wrote, "I would also have liked to have had fun but all that stayed with me were Nena and Markus and the director Wolfgang Büld being completely guilty of a lame entertainment dud.

And so Wolfgang Büld's Gib Gas – Ich will Spass could have been filmed twenty years ago, perhaps with Peter Alexander and Cornelia Froboess singing 'In love, engaged, married'.

"[7] And no more complimentary was Otto Heuer, in the Rheinische Post, opining, "And now that five and twenty years in the life of pop industry insights have passed, this attempt at a revival of that now blissfully transfigured genre turns out to have been convincingly stillborn.