I can't believe that I can only give this movie 2/10 stars. I'm still in shock. The original Gregory's Girl was so lighthearted and charming, it was impossible not to like. I really wanted to like this movie. Unfortunately, very unfortunately, this rather strange and unnecessary sequel induces wincing and discomfort from the opening scene, in which Gregory (now a teacher at his old high school) has sex with a student. There's no gratuitous nudity here, but they do show the girl -- supposedly 16 years old -- sprawled out on a large pile of tumbling mats with her legs wide apart, and Gregory between them as police and school administrators pound and curse at the room's locked door. This sex tragedy does, however, turn out to be a dream as Gregory awakens to an ejaculatory mess in his bedding. Lovely.
As it turns out, the film is called Gregory's 2 Girls, because Gregory is being desperately pursued, inexplicably pursued, by a female colleague of his. This colleague is drunk, in one scene, and acting foolish as she runs all around the exterior of Gregory's abode loudly begging Gregory to have sex with her. During this scene, Gregory crawls around in the dark locking doors and ducking behind furniture to avoid her apparently quite perilous detection. He gives this woman the "just friends" speech for a certain duration of this film until the film's (very odd) script gives him direction to abandon this scheme of thought and start having sex with her. He makes an emphatic point to bathe in advance of initially having sex with her. Gregory has multiple bathing and showering scenes in the film, such to the extent that one would get the impression that he has some mild form of obsessive compulsive disorder. This is all in keeping with his strangely nervous and twitchy personality, which leaves one wondering why anyone would like or care about this guy. He's less mature and adjusted as an adult in this film, than he was as a teenager in the original film, which serves as an excellent example of character non-development. So, these days Gregory studies and quotes Noam Chomsky quite a bit, but still generally behaves like an imbecile.
A plot manages to evolve in the movie, which features a local computer and electronics manufacturing facility ran by an old friend of Gregory's who is now "back from America." According to Gregory's under aged sex object student, and a goofy looking male friend of her's, this facility is making electronic torture devices. The goofy looking guy produces a stolen circuit board of some kind to offer up as proof. This plot doesn't really go anywhere believable nor interesting, but culminates with Gregory and his sexy teenage girl stealing a class B truck filled with computer hardware from the evil facility. The two revolutionaries park this truck near the edge of a cliff and proceed to unload its cargo, which is mostly computer monitors, by throwing all of this equipment over the cliff and onto a rocky beach far below. They pollute the beach terrifically with computer hazmat debris, and imagine that they have saved the third world from electronic torture with this gesture. They go to sleep in the truck, and the movie ends with the teenage girl's vagina remaining presumably intact. No character resolution is provided to explain what becomes of Gregory's adult sexual partner, nor his relationship with her. The final interaction between these two characters simply involves Gregory borrowing the woman's car, after having sex with her as a product of her insistence.
Gregory's younger sister, Madeline, who was a charming and insightful character in the original film, makes a brief cameo in this sequel. She introduces Gregory to her American boyfriend who, like Gregory, is also a big fan of Noam Chomsky. Gregory likes him for this reason. The three of them have lunch together. This new boyfriend gives Gregory an impressive ballpoint pen, with which Gregory will later impress teenagers. Then Gregory climbs aboard a train and goes home. No portion of this entire sequence with Madeline serves to advance the film's plot an any significant way.
There is one other useless character in the film who shows up in the form of a peace activist who is friendly with a dog and takes lots of pictures. He also knows a family of Chileans. This character gets deported or something, before doing anything of long-term consequence. This film is completely in-cohesive. The movie lacks a meaningful plot, and is thematically inane. Skip this movie, and check out other Bill Forsyth works. I'd recommend the original Gregory's Girl, Housekeeping, Local Hero, and Breaking In with Burt Reynolds, which are all great movies. I have no idea how Forsyth could have managed such a stink-bomb with Gregory's 2 Girls, but I guess you can't win them all.
As it turns out, the film is called Gregory's 2 Girls, because Gregory is being desperately pursued, inexplicably pursued, by a female colleague of his. This colleague is drunk, in one scene, and acting foolish as she runs all around the exterior of Gregory's abode loudly begging Gregory to have sex with her. During this scene, Gregory crawls around in the dark locking doors and ducking behind furniture to avoid her apparently quite perilous detection. He gives this woman the "just friends" speech for a certain duration of this film until the film's (very odd) script gives him direction to abandon this scheme of thought and start having sex with her. He makes an emphatic point to bathe in advance of initially having sex with her. Gregory has multiple bathing and showering scenes in the film, such to the extent that one would get the impression that he has some mild form of obsessive compulsive disorder. This is all in keeping with his strangely nervous and twitchy personality, which leaves one wondering why anyone would like or care about this guy. He's less mature and adjusted as an adult in this film, than he was as a teenager in the original film, which serves as an excellent example of character non-development. So, these days Gregory studies and quotes Noam Chomsky quite a bit, but still generally behaves like an imbecile.
A plot manages to evolve in the movie, which features a local computer and electronics manufacturing facility ran by an old friend of Gregory's who is now "back from America." According to Gregory's under aged sex object student, and a goofy looking male friend of her's, this facility is making electronic torture devices. The goofy looking guy produces a stolen circuit board of some kind to offer up as proof. This plot doesn't really go anywhere believable nor interesting, but culminates with Gregory and his sexy teenage girl stealing a class B truck filled with computer hardware from the evil facility. The two revolutionaries park this truck near the edge of a cliff and proceed to unload its cargo, which is mostly computer monitors, by throwing all of this equipment over the cliff and onto a rocky beach far below. They pollute the beach terrifically with computer hazmat debris, and imagine that they have saved the third world from electronic torture with this gesture. They go to sleep in the truck, and the movie ends with the teenage girl's vagina remaining presumably intact. No character resolution is provided to explain what becomes of Gregory's adult sexual partner, nor his relationship with her. The final interaction between these two characters simply involves Gregory borrowing the woman's car, after having sex with her as a product of her insistence.
Gregory's younger sister, Madeline, who was a charming and insightful character in the original film, makes a brief cameo in this sequel. She introduces Gregory to her American boyfriend who, like Gregory, is also a big fan of Noam Chomsky. Gregory likes him for this reason. The three of them have lunch together. This new boyfriend gives Gregory an impressive ballpoint pen, with which Gregory will later impress teenagers. Then Gregory climbs aboard a train and goes home. No portion of this entire sequence with Madeline serves to advance the film's plot an any significant way.
There is one other useless character in the film who shows up in the form of a peace activist who is friendly with a dog and takes lots of pictures. He also knows a family of Chileans. This character gets deported or something, before doing anything of long-term consequence. This film is completely in-cohesive. The movie lacks a meaningful plot, and is thematically inane. Skip this movie, and check out other Bill Forsyth works. I'd recommend the original Gregory's Girl, Housekeeping, Local Hero, and Breaking In with Burt Reynolds, which are all great movies. I have no idea how Forsyth could have managed such a stink-bomb with Gregory's 2 Girls, but I guess you can't win them all.