Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Hattie I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

blumdeluxe This movie is a 70s-production from Germany, dealing with the sexuality of adolescents and how it changed compared to their parent's. It mixes replayed examples with street interviews and tries to pledge for more open views towards the topic.The film itself of course isn't a masterpiece. Most of the examples seem to have been exaggerated to create a more scandalous atmosphere and the dialogues are an art form for itself. There's not much tension or anything that keeps you looking and I can tell that you don't miss anything important if you just skip parts of it.The reason why I still grant this one a rather decent rating is that I generally like the message. Sexuality is a topic where you just have to accept that some things change and while you can discuss each of this developments critically, it can help to be less scandalizing and more open minded when it comes to the concerns of the next generation. Unfortunately, I can't really decide whether this is really a message the movie wanted to carry on or if the focus was more on showing nude bodies. I'd guess on the second one..

Horst in Translation ([email protected]) Ernst Hofbauer's "Schulmädchen-Report" is a German movie from over 45 years ago. It was a major success, not only financially, as everybody talked about this movie. Is it more than soft-core porn? Yes and no, I would say. The core story is about a young woman who has sex with the school bus driver. Unluckily for her, she gets caught and it is discussed if she will be expelled. I found it interesting that, not once, there was talk about the bus driver possibly taking advantage of her. In-between, there are more stories about fairly controversial topics, such as one man having sex with several girls, pregnancy, first time sex and even rape. I guess the fact that there were really no taboos in here is a major reason why it became such a famous film and why they made so many sequels afterward. Friedrich von Thun is easily the most famous cast member here, he went on to have a long career that lasts until today. There is one major problem with this film though: As progressive as the message it gives may be, the way we get to this message is not convincing. Here I am talking about the script and, to a lesser extent, the acting. Both areas needed to be a lot better in order to let me recommend this. As a consequence, I believe this is really, like so many other (soft-core) porn movies, only worth watching if you're horny. Otherwise, I give it a thumbs down. By the way, there are several version out there. The one I saw is probably the shortest at only 77 minutes.

lazarillo After a prologue in which one "schulmadchen" (basically a German high school girl)is caught having sex, concerned parents, teachers, and other students get together for a meeting, and this movie turns into a (mostly fake) documentary with a lot of talking heads and sexual scenes, ranging from innocuous nudity to softcore groping, being acted out as "illustration". Obviously, this movie uses the old exploitation trick of pretending to morally condemn or express liberal social concern over the same lurid subject that the movie itself is cheerfully exploiting. I'm sure when this movie was showing in a German theaters, there were a lot more dirty old men in raincoats than "concerned parents" in the audience(and any concerned parents that WERE there probably would have been well-advised to wear raincoats as well). I'm also sure that the makers of this, if interviewed today, would freely admit that the moralizing was just a lot of phony-baloney to ameliorate the (obviously very stupid) censors.This movie seems pretty sordid on paper, but I actually found it strangely innocent compared to today. We STILL have this faux moralistic/secretly lecherous mentality today. Much of our current entertainment media, for instance, seems focused on following around under-age or just very immature young girls, morally clucking at their misdeeds while salivating over every sordid detail. And the more "legitimate" the medium and the more serious and shrill the moralizing, the more disgusting the hypocrisy. Moreover, Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, etc. are (presumably) real people. The actresses in this movie are obviously not real "schulmadchen" (unless there was something strange in the German water back then, I'd guess most of these actresses had long since put their own school uniforms on mothballs). They not only don't look underage, but they don't act like real women of any age--they're fantasy figures like a twenty-five-year-old stripper with fake breasts dressed in a Catholic school uniform.Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying its necessarily healthy for the media to exploit even "fantasy teens" like with this film (or the "Porkies"-style teen sex comedies of my own adolescence), but given how much we let REAL teenagers be exploited today. . . well, I just wouldn't worry about it too much.

movieman_kev A school advisory board gather to decide the fate of one of it's girl students who was found having sex with her bus driver in this German soft-core porn. Filmed as a faux-documentary (with some real life and some faked interviews interspersed between the little stories of various girls gone 'wild'), the main purpose is to titillate more than educate, and it does it's job adequately if not particularly well. This was the first in a LONG line (11 sequels!!) of "Schoolgirl Reports", and while it was enjoyable enough, I didn't see anything that special as to warrant one sequel much less that many. Just chalk it up to a case of "oh those wacky Germans". For a better film along the same lines, in my opinion, you should catch 1978's "Fantasm"