Overall, this movie provides 90 minutes of light-hearted fun. It's predictable and silly, but at the same time cute and entertaining. The first movie was a modern version of mostly the first Hanni & Nanni book, following the original story closely. Unfortunately, the filmmakers felt the need to stray from the books and invent unnecessary villains, far-fetched subplots, and chaos for the sequel, so it lost some of its charm. I wish they hadn't done that. I also missed some of the students from the previous movie. If you liked the first movie, you will probably enjoy this one, just not quite as much.
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If you liked the first, you will enjoy this too
Horst_In_Translation26 March 2015
Warning: Spoilers
Let me start this review to "Hanni & Nanni 2" by saying that I do not believe this was a weak sequel as the other reviewer states. I enjoyed the first film and I also liked the second (and third). This film here runs for pretty much exactly 90 minutes and is the longest of the trilogy. All the main characters are brought back, which includes once again performances by von Borsody, Elsner, Thalbach, Ferch and Kling. Also Barbara Schöneberger and Carolin Kebekus joined the cast. This movie came out two years after the first and it is slightly more grown up. In the first the Münster twins were basically only young girls and here they (and other characters) express interest in boys for the first time. And with these very young relationship struggles, also their parents get a bigger story than in the first film as they have to fight themselves for their marriage. Oh yes, and everybody is also looking for a princess, including a gang of kidnappers. Oh and there's jokes about bras. Unthinkable in movie 1.
Just like the first film, this one here includes lots of female-sung music and ends with a performance from LaFee. Not the greatest inclusion in my opinion sadly. If they wanted it to end this way, they should have picked some of the cast members to sing, which worked so brilliantly in movie 3. The director is Julia von Heinz this time and the script comes again from Jane Ainscough. She got help in adapting the Blyton works by Christoph Silber. He returned for the third and final movie. Ainscough did not. Occasionally I thought that Kebekus' character or the young girl with the glasses would be the princess, but not my best guess probably. Anyway, I won't spoiler more.
One of the weakest points was maybe that fencing boy fighting with his rapier against some of the girls and they weren't wearing any protective clothes at all. Really irresponsible. Despite, the pair of villains, this is never really a scary film. They went easy on these guys by giving them completely absurd story lines according to which they only got bad because they weren't allowed into the band "Tokio Hotel". Anyway, even if none of the final developments come surprising, this is still a pretty nice watch and Thalbach French teacher comes up with some great comedic moments again as well, especially in her interactions with von Borsody's character. Recommended.
Just like the first film, this one here includes lots of female-sung music and ends with a performance from LaFee. Not the greatest inclusion in my opinion sadly. If they wanted it to end this way, they should have picked some of the cast members to sing, which worked so brilliantly in movie 3. The director is Julia von Heinz this time and the script comes again from Jane Ainscough. She got help in adapting the Blyton works by Christoph Silber. He returned for the third and final movie. Ainscough did not. Occasionally I thought that Kebekus' character or the young girl with the glasses would be the princess, but not my best guess probably. Anyway, I won't spoiler more.
One of the weakest points was maybe that fencing boy fighting with his rapier against some of the girls and they weren't wearing any protective clothes at all. Really irresponsible. Despite, the pair of villains, this is never really a scary film. They went easy on these guys by giving them completely absurd story lines according to which they only got bad because they weren't allowed into the band "Tokio Hotel". Anyway, even if none of the final developments come surprising, this is still a pretty nice watch and Thalbach French teacher comes up with some great comedic moments again as well, especially in her interactions with von Borsody's character. Recommended.
A classic case of the weak follow-up
jéwé25 May 2013
The first Hanni & Nanni film was a bit of a surprise success in cinemas. Not a spectacular film, but old fashioned (Blyton) fun with a plot as thick as a needle and a nice cast of characters. The second installment is a much darker affair. This time around the girls seem to go from worry to worry. Money problems, divorces. And a pair of crooks you expect to see in a film for toddlers. A complete mess, salvaged only in a couple of scenes where blasts of happy music set the tone, rather than the actors. With the exception of Susanne von Borody, who gives a good performance. We should have known: this one was out of cinemas within a week. And number 3 is in the making.
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