Max Pinlig 2 - Sidste Skrig

I thought my rating was just based on nostalgia, but Max Pinlig 2 is a great movie and a fantastic coming of age story. The writing in the movie is great, the actors are great and because of the good writing they have a lot to work with. The cast do not over perform and everything feels grounded in reality. I also got the sense that the cast have great chemistry with each other. All the Max Pinlig films are good, however this is definitely the peak of the trilogy. Please do yourself a favor and give it a watch. If you are a teenager you have to see it with your parents. I really hope to see more from these actors especially Mette Horn who plays the mother and Samuel Heller-Seiffert who plays Max. 11/10

The movie has a target audience at around 8-15 years old but the humor in it has qualities that adults would like.

We follow the boy Max on summer camp (in danish "højskole") with his most embarrassing mother. She flunks again and again by having no sense of proper behavior whatsoever in any context she is in. She decides to bring Max with her to a summer camp filled with pseudo artists and spiritual people trying to live an authentic life in a very narcissistic manner. They could be seen as the last survivors of the hippie culture from the seventeens, but survivors that only pretend to be as their ancestors...

Through Max we observe and feel his desperation to get back home to his normal teenage life. He bears his destiny with an air of resignation almost in survival mode. The story develops and with that development comes hope for Max. He finally pick up his normal life with friends, school etc.

Probably many remembers a certain period of their teenage life where they considered their parents one huge embarrassment and hated the idea of becoming adults themselves. The producer writer utilizes this in a very funny way.

See it if you want a funny angle on the parent/teenager theme...

Regards Simon