La Boum 2

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!

I had a good time watching it. I traveled back to those times. J'aime cette actresse et la musique bien sure!

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.

Although "La Boum" 2 is more than 30 years old, it is heartening to learn that it has not lost an iota of its emotional appeal. It is known by cinema goers as far as in faraway Japan where Sophie Marceau went to promote her film. La Boum 2 talks about the world of youngsters and their parents especially from a "generation gap" angle. It shows that their world has not changed due to the control some parents continue to exert on their children. We get to see that the attitude of parents has remained same as they like to continue to spy on their kids fearing that their kids would no longer be in their control. It is as if somebody is afraid of losing them.Leading French actors Claude Brasseur and Brigitte Fossey play their roles with great finesse as parents of a young lady named Vic who is loved by everybody around her. Although "La Boum" is considered a cult classic, it is also a "perfect" family film as any member of the family can easily watch it.Lastly,La Boum 2 is a film for all those who like their comedies to transform their worlds into a "stress free" world.

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...