Hababam Sinifi: Askerde

Okay, I admit it's a bad movie, but some movies are valuable to you because you watched them as a kid. This is one of those movies that I watched a lot when I was a kid, when I was at school, I still know some lines by heart.

Ferdi Egilmez, the son of the legendary director Ertem Egilmez, has proved in his debut as director, that he is capable of producing a first class comedy, where the audience gets tears in their eyes while laughing.

Hillariously funny... Full of surprises.

The film will definitely overrun the success of "Hababam Sinifi Merhaba (2004)".

It is very encouraging to see that the new episodes of the Hababam movies follow the path of the first one, which is already a cult in Turkish cinema.

A must see.

Ahmet Sen Hamburg/ Germany

Hababam Sinifi Askerde is the second remake/sequel of the 1970s hit films adapted from the great Turkish satire writer Rifat Ilgaz' novel. The original series, with its good and bad moments, was a bunch of heart-warming stories in the memories of many. This, on the other hand, is nothing but an abomination attempting to capitalize on that old, naive memory.

Nothing about this movie is worth the slightest amount of praise except occasional moments when individual actors do something right to get a slight smile from the audience. There is almost no sophisticated comic effort or clever twist, just blatant swearing and fart-jokes targeting the lowest-level intelligence. The cast list is one full of inexplicably popular but painfully talentless names, and Kemal Kenan Ergen fails to produce a script worthy of the late grand master Rifat Ilgaz.

Represents all that fails about the Turkish Cinema of the 2000s. Cheap sexploitation, a cast of randomly assembled semi-talented and semi- famous actors (and non-actors), a series of randomly scattered simplistic pop references, a non-realistic plot which could be written by a 10 year old as summer homework, appeals perhaps only to the kidults who long for their wasted high school years in search of a daydreaming flashback moment.

Lacks the charm, ingenuity and authentic warmth of the original series as well as the chemistry of the original cast which made it work as well as it did. Wasting the memory of a franchise for a quick buck isn't something I'd put past Turkish producers but one expects at least a modicum of care for a piece of work that you put your name on. Alas, it wasn't to be.

Just that horrible, don't waste your time watching it if you're over 12 years old and even if you are there are much better flicks worthy of your time.

Absolutely a cracker.

The film was much better than expected, full of gags that got me out of breathe, I'm sure everyone else thought so.

The film is the sequel to many other trademark Hababam movies, I never thought the old Hababam series can be replaced but I have been proved wrong, it's a must see, I certainly will watch it again.

Every cast member was perfect in all ways, just perfect!!!

The ending could have been better but i'm not saying its bad, but it could have been better.

I think this movie has everything the Turkish people miss from the old Hababam's, people have always loved watching the old ones over and over again, and like me i'm sure everyone else wanted to see more of Hababam.