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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

"Teenage Angst" is a German thriller from 2008, so this one will have its 10th anniversary next year. The director is Thomas Stuber (recently very successful with "Herbert") and after some short film work, this his his very first full feature film, at slightly over 60 minutes (including credits a really short one though). Maybe that is the reason the film lacks in the story-telling department quite a bit. We have a group of four young men and we see what the "advantages" of their parents' wealth turned them into: sadists, criminals, masochists, indifferent followers, but the humanity is pretty much gone in all of these. Admittedly, the grown-up characters in here are not helping matters (i.e. the boys) either. Nonetheless the film delivers really as nothing but a story of shock value and humiliation. You don't care for any of the characters or their well-being really. In terms of the character study component, it is really an underwhelming outcome I must say. The young actors are nothing special either and I don't really see promise in them. Or perspective. For a decent and especially for a long career in the industry, they need to step things up. Same for the duo who wrote this. Then again, it's been almost 10 years since this came out, so here's hoping they managed to improve already. For daddy Schweighöfer all hope is lost though perhaps age-wise. Then again he probably isn't any worse in here than his equally untalented and horribly overrated son. This film offers almost nothing below the surface and I give it a thumbs-down. It's not a failure, but also miles away from being a good movie. I am glad it was this short. Not recommended. Oh yeah, final note: This film is also known as Spieltrieb and you should not mistake it for the other later title (by Gregor Schnitzler) with that name because that one is actually fairly decent.

Teenage Angst is a film I felt was cut by the half. OK, it's an European film, things are supposed to be guessed more than explained, but this was too much to me. So: spoiler alert! What was all that bashing of the guy meant for? It has some gay eroticism in itself, and that's why it's marked of gay interest, but why didn't he reacted at some point? Just to be part of a mini-fraternity? Too little to explain his behavior, after he was nearly drowned, isn't it? That's a film in which I would demand an explanation, as it's given in most American comfortable movies. The school itself is hardly convincing. Just some pals in classes with someone that seems to be the sole prof, director, adviser, etc. But so much lack of information p. me off.

The movie seems to have some influence of "The Young Törless", Robert Musil's novel was adapted for the screen by Volker Schlöndorff. The theme is similar: in an elite school, a group of students think they are "beyond good and evil" and bully on of its members, in a way that resembles the fascism."Reject the moral" means to them: massive alcohol and drug abuse, and various forms of rape and torture.Unfortunately, the movie don't develops its interesting premise. What we see is only a strong graphic content with obvious homo-erotic subtext.It's a weird school, where there is only one teacher and few students, and they are mere adjuncts. The author failed to portray a real school environment.Maybe the story would be better if there were more brain and less eye candy.

This accomplished hour-long first feature is set at a posh German boarding school. We know it's posh because it's in a dramatic mountain castle and there's a beautiful mountain lake; the photography shows a good eye, with a sense of what to show off and what not to reveal completely. The subject, after all, is something we never quite see -- not so much what's happening at any moment as the situation's growing potential for danger and violence. The scenes, often broken off abruptly, have an explosive, improvised feel that keeps you watching.Four bad boys led by the bold, dominant Dyrbusch (Niklas Kohrt) form a kind of pact surrounding a nearby "dacha" hangout where they expound Nietschean fantasies and drink shots and snort crystal meth. Dyrbusch's second self is Bogatsch (Michael Ginsburg), who seems manifestly inferior, but brims over with sympathetic hostility and aggression. Konstantin (Franz Dinda) is just naive and curious. Von Leibnitz (Janusz Kocaj) is strange, needy, an outsider, but also brilliant, an aristocrat, perhaps of homoerotic appeal to the leaders with his soft looks and long hair. Though all four, drunk, after bathing nude, threaten a girl called Vaneska (Stephanie Schönfeld), with possible rape, Konstantin and Von Leibnitz have second thoughts and from then on a dangerous dynamic of conflict arises. Plainly two of the bad boys aren't bad enough to suit the other two. Von Leibnitz becomes the all-too-willing torture object of the two boldest and most psychopathic boys; Konstantin, having second thoughts, wants to opt out.A big, paunchy, but nicely dressed teacher-mentor (Michael Schweighöfer) is the only authority figure seen. He tries by a show of ease and self confidence to mask the fact that among these moneyed delinquents he may not have the last word. Events do turn tragic and in an unexpected and ironic manner.The story has familiar elements; the outline has strong echoes of 'Young Torless.' But the telling has a raw contemporary feel. There's a fresh sense of danger and near-hysteria about many scenes -- something tricky to create, and trickier to keep from overwhelming the narrative. Director Thomas Stuber, who was only 26 when he made this film but had six years of apprenticeship behind him, gets intense performances out of his actors. In some of the group sequences, especially the near-rape, you may forget anyone is acting, yet to balance that, the setup is classically cinematic. The economical editing maintains the nice balance between chaos and order. Stuber shows a lot of promise. The writing of Holger Jäckle is praiseworthy too.'Teenage Angst' is a recent release by Picture This!, the indie distributor of mostly foreign coming of age and gay-related films (e.g. 'Garcon Stupide,' 'Come Undone,''Aimee and Jaguar,''Before the Fall') that as of Nov. 2009 has closed its doors after 13 years. 'Angst" and Angelina Maccarone's (2006, also German) 'Punish Me' ('Verfogt') are examples that Picture This! is a niche loss that will be felt both by viewers and by the industry. This comes on top of the greater loss of pre-eminent foreign film distributor New Yorker Films, which shut down earlier this year after 44 years and was responsible for the US release of many foreign classics.