Ma Meilleure Rivale

April and nick had a pretty long term thing, for high school kids! But that ended. And now another girl is dating nick. April thinks she's going to hate her, but they actually become friends. Although it's killing april, knowing that clara is banging the delicious nick. With whom she still seems to be in lust, or love. Or something. She does tell us that nick was her first! Lots of millenial cell phone stuff, googling, lots of vaping. Girl talk, guy talk. Teen angst. Which relationships will survive? The girls' friendship? Or nick and....who ? Graduation day is sometimes so....final. Directed by benjamin kasulke. He's won a bunch of film fest awards. Apparently this was really someone's life experience. Probably happens pretty frequently, actually! Cute, simple film, nothing too serious.

In a - hopefully temporary - phase of ethusiasm for teen rom-comedies (about teens! not for teens...) I stumbled into this movie and I have to say it was really good: lighthearted, fresh and funny.

Yeah, nothing really original: a lot of the genre tropes are there... but still mostly done with competence, attention to detail and heart. Which is rare for the genre.

It's not a masterpiece but I don't see how anyone could be disappointed.

Banana split was a nice movie. It's mainly theme centres around the unexpected friendship of the two main characters, a theme that was actually well executed. The performances were good too, with a nice pace to the plot.

This story is a lot of fun. It shows four friends going through highs and lows. The two girls are really likable, and their friendship is very convincing. I find this film infectiously fun, and brings smiles on my face.

I have to start by saying that Banana Split feels unoriginal and like something I've seen many times before. I'm not all that interested in teen dramas in the first place, so they have to do something truly special to stand out for me. This one is a mildly entertaining retread of relationship dramas that get pumped out by movie studios every year, probably in an effort to appeal to the teenage demographic. There was one aspect of the film that I truly enjoyed, though, and that was the friendship between the two girls. There's something so charming and playful about their relationship, and it is so seldom that we get to see movies which simply focus on friends being friends. I was so enamored with this part of the film that it was a big letdown when the boy returned to the story and it all devolved into the same old love triangle nonsense that is played out in countless teen movies. The actresses did a good job in Banana Split, and I liked the way these two diverse personalities found a common ground that united them. I wouldn't be annoyed if I were to re-watch Banana Split, and I'm sure some people might enjoy it a lot, but it's not a movie that I will seek out ever again.