As one of the films after her Hollywood break, Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence has chosen a comedy in which her character is supposed to deflower a 19-year-old before college. The sequel to the German hit comedy Harte Jungs about a talking penis 21 years (!) after part 2 has recently been streamed on Netflix.
Thanks to No Hard Feelings and Hammerharte Jungs it looks to me like they will flat sex comedies of my youth are slowly making a comeback celebrate in cinemas and on streaming services. And there’s hardly a development I’m more excited about this year.
Puberty humor and penis jokes are the perfect antidote to prudish superhero blockbusters
When I think back to the best comedy movies of my youth, it was about the main character getting caught having sex with an apple pie. American Pie, Superbad, Eurotrip, Virgo (40), Male, looking for … and Road Trip – Hot trip to Texas ran up and down with me and my circle of friends because they hormone-plagued teens met exactly in this vulgar emotional chaos have.
The success of these US productions also arrived quickly in Germany, so that in the early 2000s similar films such as Harte Jungs, Mädchen, Mädchen, Schule, Sex Up – Jungs have it not easy or particularly sensitively titled strips such as Popp dich slim! were shot.
In retrospect, puberty is pure foreign shame for many and rough comedies like the films mentioned were part of at least feeling understood and not alone during this time. At the same time, I also felt kind of rebellious when I watched films that my parents just shook their heads at. But the hype only lasted for a short time.
From the 2010s onwards, there were hardly any films of this type in cinemas that revolved around hormone-ridden teenagers or young adults and their immature mishaps. Vulgar sex jokes were generally considered the bottom drawerwhich left little room for films à la American Pie.
This was also reflected in economic terms: Pimmel humor made less and less money. Cinema, too, seemed to be adapting to a new zeitgeist that challenged gender stereotypes and wanted to tell a different, at first glance less flat, type of coming-of-age story.
Pure nostalgia! Check out the trailer for American Pie here:
American Pie – Trailer (German)
Comedies about sex with penis jokes need to make a comeback
In cinemas from the 2010s onwards, superhero films à la Marvel and DC dominate, in which well-trained, attractive stars do not exude a spark of eroticism and sex is more unrealistic than a purple, wrinkled gummy bear that collects magic stones for more than 20 films. The alternative? Horror films that only tire me out with their constant jump scares.
From the last few years I can only remember individual examples like The Sex Pact or Good Boys, which are similar coarse humor and carefree foreign shame sprayed like my previous favorite comedies. Where’s the fun gone? Where is the desire for hormone-soaked foreign shame?
It’s not my concern that I want to watch a new flat, vulgar sex or cock comedy in the cinema or as a stream every week. However, in a program of raucous blockbusters, predictable horror films and cerebral art-house dramas, such films seem like a relaxed break. And who can’t use it right now?
I wish that a younger generation would do the same how I used to have such embarrassingly funny experiences again may. With films that are hormonally overwhelmed, explicit and just as embarrassing as pubescent teenagers feel. Hopefully No Hard Feelings and Hammerharte Jungs are just the beginning.
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