You may recall I reviewed the Korean movie 'Wet Dreams' (몽정기) a few months back. The basic premise was a group of four teenage boys develop a crush on their new attractive female student instructor (who is actually in love w/ the senior instructor, her former teacher). The part about the four boys had a great deal of 'American Pie' type puberty related humor, but for the most part it was pretty funny, and apparently successful enough to warrant a sequel. I should note that this is like the 15th Korean romantic comedy I've seen that's about a love triangle related to student teachers being placed in high school classrooms (here's one example and here's another and here's yet another) So if you want to do a sequel on a formulaic comedy, you hypothetically should modify the formula a bit to keep things a bit fresh. In the case of 'Wet Dreams 2' (몽정기 2) they decided to take that "coming of age teenagers + attractive student teacher = comedy" formula but switch it from teenage boys to teenage girls:OK, so far so good! :-PBut this time there's no alternate love interest for the student teacher, just a lot of temptation to break the law from the competing girls striving for his attention and a humorous flatulence problem! Much hilarity ensues!The rival for the student teacher's affections is played by actress Sin Joo-ah (신주아). She was actually 20 years old when the movie was filmed, but her character was supposed to be a student who was also a well known model. The funny thing is that she totally reminds me of our good friend Shan Chen from certain angles: vs Anyway, I digress... the movie is entertaining on some level, it has some funny scenes mixed in. If you are a parent you probably have some questions about the values this movie imparts on young women, but as I don't yet have any teenage daughters who want to lose their virginity with their college aged teacher's assistants... its not really on my radar. :-PThe writing and direction are not super awesome by any means, and a lot of random subplots have no purpose in the movie, but actresses all do a good job with very limited material and I'll give it a bonus points for NOT having a life and death dramatic conclusion like you see in many (most!) Korean comedies - at no point is anyone in a horrible car crash, afflicted with cancer or in a giant gangster fight for their life. But it does (of course) have an extremely cheesy finale at the school's year end festival (because all student teacher love triangle comedies have to have the show down at the festival... its required!) :-P6/10.Here's the completely misleading DVD cover:
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