LOL 2.0
This is a pure feel-good movie with a mini coming-of-age story.
So really not my thing.
I also wasn’t the target audience at all. The daughter is around 25 and childfree, and the mother is slowly heading toward retirement age. I couldn’t really identify with any of the characters. So for this review, I’m mostly sticking to the acting, camera work, and overall execution.
And honestly, I don’t have much to criticize there. The film looks solid, it’s well acted, and it has that typically French lightness you either enjoy or you don’t. Sophie Marceau carries the whole thing with confidence, even if the script doesn’t exactly give her the most exciting scenes in the world.
If you like French feel-good movies, and maybe even know the first film, you’ll probably be well served here.
What bothered me, though, was the constant attempt to feel young and modern. Phones, personal settings for the fictional characters, little social media moments, all of it keeps getting emphasized. You can really feel the movie trying to show how current it is. At times, it feels a bit forced.
And then there’s the way the film handles drugs. It feels like people are smoking weed constantly, and hallucinogenic chocolate is treated pretty casually, almost like a hip, normal fun moment. Maybe it’s supposed to feel modern and relaxed, but I found it more irritating than anything. Not shocking, just one of those brief moments where you think, is this really how drugs are being treated in France right now, or is the film just trying very hard to seem loose and current?
For fans of French feel-good comedies, this is probably a nice watch.
For me, there just wasn’t much to take from it. That’s how it goes sometimes with Mystery Reviews.
