‘You will never go into the basement again’, ‘You will never want to stay home alone again’, ‘You will never go into the water again’: Horror films always portray gruesome horror scenarios, which we like to use as an excuse to formulate a warning in our articles about FILMSTARTS . In the case of “Girl, girl!” However, we can turn the tables – and make a recommendation: you just want to go everywhere by bike!
With his coming-of-age comedy, Dennis Gansel (“The Wave”) not only created an amusing, brutal examination of adolescent sexual urges (for a change, not from a male perspective, but from a female perspective). In response to ‘American Pie’, which was released two years earlier, it also produced the local counterpart of the iconic apple pie scene: the bicycle scene, hardly less known in this country, in which Inken, played by Diana Amft, experiences her first orgasm and a pensioner sits in the car – A couple was just thinking about maybe getting back on the saddle.
“Girl, Girl!” is available on Blu-ray for the first time this week (January 11, 2024) – inviting you on an endearing journey through time, which you can now enjoy in HD for the first time.
But be careful: “Girl, Girl!” is a child of his time, through and through. That’s exactly why the film scores points for putting common gender clichés through the meat grinder using tools that were popular at the time.
You can also get the Blu-ray directly at home Turbine rental company shop*.
“Girl, girl!”: Looking for the first orgasm
Inken and her friends Victoria (Felicitas Woll) and Lena (Karoline Herfurth) are on the cusp of adulthood – and have never had an orgasm! This must change quickly, but it is proving more difficult than expected. Because the men in the lives of the brutal trio only fulfill the needs of the female sex to a limited extent…
From slogan T-shirts à la “Other countries, other tits” (for men) or “feel-good mattress” (for women) and condoms placed over the head, which you can inflate with your nose for 20 marks, to the large The life-changing realization that women can come three times during sex – and men only once: “Girl, Girl!” reflects teenage life at the turn of the millennium with all its rough edges, its unspeakable shame and great wisdom and, above all, with many winks.
Does this cause today’s youth to continually roll their eyes or does it create a strange connection? The author of this article cannot actually judge that. But he discovers: even though Dennis Gansel’s film still seems almost like a late ’90s vehicle, reminiscent of the days of the Spice Girls and Backstreet Boys, the era of Center Shocks and PlayStation 2, “Girl, Girl!” is not only still fun, but above all has its heart in the right place.
In addition, the fun teen sex adventure in which a “Tell me, what does it look like?” Maybe we should fuck a little?” – the suggestion is waved away with a dry “If you don’t mind if I puke while I do that” and he practices with cucumber, condom and mouth for an “oral test”, not at least his audience of that generation You can today still have a great time on the day – even if a very young Max Riemelt, now-turned-“Matrix” star, will eventually remind you that you’re no longer a teenager yourself…