LastingAware The greatest movie ever!

StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Allissa .Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

OllieSuave-007 Saw this movie in my high school French class - a typical teenage, coming-of-age flick, with all the sappiness, rebellions, dating, and semi-raunchy stuff. It stars future Bond girl Sophie Marceau in her first film feature.I remembered that the film got quite the laughs from my class, but I myself found it just mildly entertaining with its slow plot, average acting, and uninhibited-ness.Grade C

R. Ignacio Litardo Not even naturally gifted Sophie Marceau and Claude Brasseur can save this film from crashing.Then only good thing I find about it is the "social character" of Parisian teen life in the early 80s. And I thought only my school mates were corny :). It was the same at chic Saint Germain des Prés :). The morals of this story are awful, the storyline is at times erratic, at others it just doesn't make any sense, but overall I wanted to turn off the TV about 20 times before it finally ended. "Marriage survives all difficulties", "men can fool around, women can do something out of spite, but they always come back to their man", .I agree with vyto34 on IMDb that "Brasseur is a most unfortunate choice for the dentist ..." in that he looks more like a gangster than a dentist & family man and so on. Brigitte Fossey is miscast as the wife of Brasseur, she's just too beautiful and intelligent for a man who seems to have no ability for anything. Pénélope's sister, precocious little blonde "Samanta" fancying François Beretton is just one of the very stupid choices this film has. One of the few "lovable" characters is Denise Grey' Poupette (the avant-garde harp playing great-grandma (??) who has all the answers), she is just stereotyped. Bernard Giraudeau is Lehman, stud German lycée teacher does what he can with the cardboard plot he's given. He did the extremely funny "Viens chez moi..." with M. Blanc, which proves he can star a brilliant comedy and also took part in "Ridicule" with Fanny Ardant. I mean, some of the actors have done great movies, in spite of this one :). By the way, in one of the most unbelievable scenes of this illogical movie, he, who is young and fit, is being held up by 2 men until, out of nowhere, Mr. Beretton sends the 2 thieves away and later hits the teacher on his face without resistance. Another of the silliest scenes is the comeuppance of Mme. Beretton and her husband's lover, and then Poupette finishes it. No sight of the police, of course. Worse of all, she did nothing her beloved husband didn't agree with. But those are the bourgeoise morals: the harlot has to suffer financial loss, but the pater familias is always welcome. The ending is particurarly devoid of meaning, but maybe "it wants to show how teenagers change of love like a t-shirt".I found this film umbearable, but have to accept it's very popular. Particularly with Americans who took French somewhere in their education. The electrical piano version of "Dreams..." (slow music) is particularly jarring, veering on mental idiocy, specially after being hammered on all through the film. Paris is nice, thou, but I guess no director can harm it :)!Watching a former Bond villain like Marceau as an early teenager with blossoming sexuality is not entirely a happy experience. Teen language and high school are interesting, but the film doesn't let us focus even on those moderately interesting topics. Instead it forces us to watch the stupid parent's fights and predictable redemption of the male figure. The only funny scene was, perhaps, the botched sex scene with Mr. Beretton and his last lover. Maybe it's just outdated.Overall... avoid it.

misspiggie My french teacher allowed my class to watch the entire thing.It's a wonderful movie. There was one slow song that kept playing throughout the entire film, but at the moment I cannot recall the name of it. I give it a ten out of ten because it was funny, shocking, and even a smidge sad at points. Nowadays it would most definitely be rated PG-13 at least, because it does contain profanity and some sexual references. All of the foreign films shown to us in class were loved by all, such as Jean De Florette and Manon De la Source, which are both equally fabulous movies. I must say that I greatly enjoyed the lead female character's haircut. It really looked good on her.

mdm-11 This is the film that launched the film career of Sophie Marceau. The 14 year old star goes through the "growing pains" as an only child of successful professionals. The age where kids are granted to have a "boom" (party) without parent supervision has arrived at last! Nervous fathers are sitting in parked cars, uncertain whether to "see what's going on" in the apartment where the teenagers are celebrating their independence.This film is not just a series of laughs, but it seriously handles issues such as sibling rivalry, divorce and other situations relevant to adolescents. There are isolated scenes with crude double-meaning, crassly unsuitable for children. Viewing by pre-teens should be at parent's discretion! Otherwise, this is a thoroughly enjoyable "feel good movie".The love theme "Reality" by Richard Sanderson, a #1 World Hit at the time, is a beautiful song popping up throughout the story, adding to the magic. Lots of European "flavor" make this a great film to enjoy. Capitalizing on the huge success of this 1980 instant-classic is the 1982 sequel, the much weaker "La Boum 2". Enjoy "La Boum" and forget about the sequel