La boum 2

After over 20 years, I can say that I do miss this type of coming of age film (Breaking Away, My Bodyguard, 400 Blows) done before the modern age of jaded irony & cynicism. It's for those old enough to miss the young subjects of Truffaut, only without the melancholy. Even the cheesy but sprightly tunes invite nostalgia. Like Bardot before Marceau, her precocious innocence here holds up against French frankness. Sophie has yet to recapture the same appeal even after limited exposure to her more grown-up international efforts (Braveheart, 007), even Lambert Wilson's mature exposure (Matrix Reloaded, Catwoman) come off now as well, ironic & cynical.

This was the first movie I saw at the movies. I fell in love with Sophie and Pierre. It was one of the first teenager movies of its kind in Germany (La Boum was the first one). It is very funny! I recommend the movie to anyone, especially young people. It's about first love and the chaos of dealing with one's family.

So I enjoyed it mostly but it feels kind of like the first movie. Teenagers going to party at other people's houses and have fun. But I wished there was a new turn in the narrative. Also it may have been cool if the movie would have taken place right after the first movie ended. To see what happens to the character viq, but after all I enjoyed it.

I saw this movie as a 13 year old and instantly fell in love with Sophie Marceau. It shows a normal world with normal people and normal Teenager. It was the Teenager Movie!

There are some movies from which you know that they aren't good but still you love them to death. La Boum 2 (and of course La Boum as well) is such a movie as every European teenager will have seen this movie and every of them will have fallen in love with Sophie Mazrceau as well. La boum is a French word for a party and all what happens is the story between two youngsters, and you know very well how it will end...but it must have something to do with the nostalgia of things... The music is sloppy 80's music that everyone liked and this was very much different from the usual American teenagemovies we saw simply as it was about real people and real situations, how stupid they might have been. The thing is that as a kid it means more to you that you have house arrest rather than stealing a Cadillac...or the typical John Hughes-script. Perhaps totally dated and perhaps Sophie Marceau herself can't believe her eyes when she sees it again but nostalgia always work...