Romantic Comedy 2: Farewell to Bachelorhood (Romantik Komedi 2: Bekarlığa Veda)

Romantic Comedy 2: Farewell to Bachelorhood (Romantik Komedi 2: Bekarlığa Veda)

Movie · 2013 · 16 people

Romantik Komedi 2: Bekarlığa Veda (Romantic Comedy 2: Farewell to Bachelorhood) is a Turkish film that continues the 2010 Romantik Komedi and opened on February 13, 2013. Erol Özlevi directed it, his first feature; Aslı Zengin and Ceren Aslan wrote the script. Most actors of the first film return in the same roles. It runs about 105 minutes.

Esra (Sedef Avcı) is getting ready to marry Mert (Cemal Hünal), and Zeynep (Burcu Kara) is already married. Didem (Sinem Kobal) is the only one in the group still single. When her boyfriend Cem (Engin Altan Düzyatan) does not propose, she reads a book called The Road to Marriage and tries its tactics on him, but things turn out differently than she hoped. Cem, an actor, is working on a new film opposite Gözde (Özge Ulusoy), and Didem becomes jealous. With Esra and Zeynep she starts secretly following him, and the trail leads to the bachelor party the men have organized for Mert at an Antalya hotel. The women get in dressed as belly dancers to see what goes on there.

Also in the cast are Gürgen Öz (Yiğit), Öykü Çelik (Hande), Gökçe Özyol (Ergün), Kubilay Penbeklioğlu (Erdener), Nurseli İdiz (Ender) and Ali Ersan Duru (Mustafa).

DirectorErol Özlevi
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Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humor and heart.

A light, colorful romantic comedy and a pleasant evening film for teens and adults. But because of themes like a bachelor party, jealousy and the women sneaking into a hotel dressed as belly dancers, it is not really suited to young children. Most of the humor comes from misunderstandings and chases. Fine for high schoolers and up.

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

The classic sequel problem is here too: much of the first film's cast is back, but little new has been built on top. The script leans on the best-known romcom molds: the panic of the last single woman, jealousy, secret tailing and sneaking into a party in disguise. As Erol Özlevi's first feature it is tidy work, yet the directing choices never dare to step outside the formula. While the relationship between Sinem Kobal and Engin Altan Düzyatan tries to carry the film, the supporting characters are mostly there to deliver jokes. The Antalya hotel stretch is the liveliest part, but it offers predictable comedy rather than surprise.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

The film's starting point is a very familiar social pressure: the panic of being the only unmarried woman in a circle of friends. Didem's schemes to talk her longtime boyfriend into marriage reflect, in comic terms, the expectation of marriage that weighs on urban women. The bachelor party plays with clichés about the worlds men and women keep hidden from each other. The film uses these molds as material for fun rather than questioning them, yet for anyone curious about the tension between marriage, jealousy and career among the young urban middle class of the early 2010s, it is a small time capsule.

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