One night, there wasn’t much on TV, so I watched the film "The American President". At the end of it, I thought "Yes, that was a nice film". While flicking over to the other TV stations, a movie that was half-over on SBS caught my eye. I watched until the end of it, and I loved every minute. This movie was called "Girls On Top", and it was German. The next time it was on SBS I watched and recorded it, and I still love it. My Friendster profile lists it as my favourite movie.
This time last week, while looking in the TV guide, I discovered that SBS were going to be showing the sequel to it - this was the first time I’d heard that there was a sequel. Naturally, I got hyped up about it, especially since the reviewer had given it 3 stars.
They showed it tonight. In comparison to the original, it sucks arse. It definately wasn’t anywhere near as funny as the original; I suspect that some of the humour was lost in the translation from German to English, but even so the funniest part of this sequel was actually the same joke as at the beginning of the original.
Yes. They abandoned the formula. One of the funniest characters from the original was absent in this sequel, and her replacement was nowhere near as good. Inken, Lena and Flin were the only returning characters, and I think the whole storyline involving Sebastian was lifted from Shakespeare or Dickens. Possibly both.
The Inken/Flin storyline was quite satisfying in terms of what the viewer wanted to see, and also in fleshing out the two characters. In fact, some of it actually reminded me of myself… I’ve gotta give credit where it’s due, this was the film’s strong point.
Standing on its own, Girls On Top 2 is an engaging movie. But as a sequel it falls short. "That was a nice film". 5 stars out of 10.
P.S. Foxtel is only standard definition. In the credits, did it really say that all those songs were performed by Tears? ‘Cos they’re the Swiss Popstars group!
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