Hard Feelings

"Hammerharte Jungs" is a weird teen comedy, even by German standard. "American Pie" it is not, but it might be an almost worthy German version. Almost.

The Good: Lacking an ensemble cast, instead we get childhood buddies Paula and Charly, two high schoolers with talking genitals. Yes, it's weird. Lacking in sexual experience, they are egged on by their eager talking organs to lose their virginity. Somewhat comedic moments ensue.

The Bad: And that's the main problem with this movie. Moments and situations that should have been played for comedy somehow got too serious and suddenly very unfunny. The end result is something much less than "American Pie," and instead just another teen drama.

And then there's a strange side story about Charly's parents.

Probably this movie was misclassified as a comedy. As a drama, however, it is not bad. Real-life situations and problems of high school life are worthy subjects and had the "comedic" talking genitals been cut out, "Hard Feelings" would have earned more stars.

8 stars for tackling real issues minus 2 stars for misplaced comedy.

This is a German movies I seen that shows in a coarse way two pals who are in the last class of high school and feeling now is the time of making love. In a sudden their sexual members start talking to them in an even more raunchy and quite stupid way that in part inhibits to do their classes with some stupid actions. Thankfully they were enough smart to get back before they were more ridiculed.

The story is very interesting with lots of good morals but the way it is given is more than raunchy putting the movie IQ to the floor level . For example we see his member rotating in front of other classmates or in the orchestra. Getting viral in the social media supposedly tik tok was the good side effect for him. Instead, his girlfriend was called as hooker and was ridiculed well. You can fancy what happened then. I can only notice the Greek expression make a mountain out of a molehill as translated into English. The class mates have a good motto "no more shaming" mentioned in English , which always was broken

The end is relatively better and quite predictable. A fast paced movie with some interesting twists Limited hidden nudity with much of overacting

Story : 6 and quite cute Implementation: 2 /10.

I think the only reason most people don't like this movie is because it's German, and that's really childish like come on it's a good movie, one of the best German ones, I mean it's not "all quiet on the western front" but cut it some slack. I feel like most people reviewing this movie is 25yrs + and they say it's a bad teen movie. As a teen myself I approve of this movie, it might be a little to much sexual activity , but I can look aside that. The main characters I did truly like they are played by good actors and they deliver them well. It was a really weird movie, but a fun time none the less.

Against all evidences, I like it. Sure, modest in many senses, too simplistic, pale copy of American Pie, it is the gift to remind the basic traits of teen life and the high school hypocrisies. But, more important, I like it for be just simple amusing comedy and for the lead actors who are not bad at whole in their roles, reminding long term friendships, cruelty and gossips around them, the imaginary friend in kynky version and the foreign student change in new perspective.

In short, a fine easy comedy, not exactly for present teenagers but for nostalgics of the teen comedies of the begining of century, maybe for some Adam sandler.

So, my opinion is simple and clear - just a pretty nice film- with some frontal exposure as chery on top.

I asked my wife if she had ever been watching a bad movie but kept watching hoping that it will get better..but it never does?

This is that kind of movie, it had many opportunities to be more interesting or substantial, but it kept scattering in multiple direction, some quite implausible (Paula on the bridge??) At that age we were all very confused, lost, turkeys as my principal used to call us. Charly seems to be from another planet, not funny I have to give the writers credit for getting the correct name of a woman's external genitalia . It is "vulva" NOT VAGINA, and for the emphasis on solidarity with and not judguing our peers instead of shaming and humiliating them. I am not sure that our adolescents will enjoy this movie as one of the reviewers suggested.