You won't be disappointed!

Instant Favorite.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

In your good review of The Sterile Cuckoo your remark that Liza's mom didn't perform as real or sensitive or genuine in all of her movies. Yes, most would agree since Judy Garland's film roles centered mostly on what Judy did best - "entertaining." Other than her heart-wrenching testimony on the witness stand in Judgment at Nuremberg or trying to help a mentally retarded young man in A Child Is Waiting, in I Could Go On Singing was a showcase for Judy, both as actress and as a performer, (her scenes at the Palladium were probably as close as the movies ever get to capturing her on-stage persona), she's exhilarating and incredibly moving. And trying to reconnect with her young son left with her ex-husband is truly special. When she gets around to her drunken 'I can't be spread so thin' speech all traces of the character have been wiped clean and it's Judy, raw and emotional, on screen. This was her final film, and you can say she went out on a high.

College can be lonely, or it can be fun. Fitting in is always a must even though you don't want to. In "The Sterile Cuckoo", it all points out to that. Taking place in Upstate New York, it makes a very great Fall setting there. Here you have Jerry(Wendell Burton), a shy college man who happens to meet Mary Ann "Pookie" Adams(Liza Minelli) who happens to be socially inept. She doesn't fit in with anyone around her, she calls them "Wierdos". She too is smart, but she only wants to be around Jerry, instead. They happen to have a good time where ever they go, even going to a graveyard where she really acts up. The hotel scene is really classic. The request she gave out was very unusual. "Peel the Tomato" seems to be a new one on me. The strip scene was short but nice to watch. No insecurity about that! But in life, we need to leave our comfort zone behind sometimes, because not meeting new people can create problems. But that's anybody's guess. This movie is a real gem, and I enjoyed it very much. 5 stars!

I recently watched this again on TCM. The introductory comment said this was a movie about a boy and girl "falling in love". Nothing could be further from the truth. This is a movie about, loneliness, pain, and emotional desperation.Pookie is the classic emotionally distressed outsider. Bright, witty, seeing through things ala Holden Caulfield, and is desperate need of emotional contact with another human being. She literally latches onto and pursues a boy who has no idea of what he's getting into and being a "normal person" is incapable of seeing just how needy and desperate she is; and more importantly he wants to lead an "average, everyday, life" and so is totally unable to fulfill her needs.The movie also does a good job of showing how is is ostracized and treated with great cruelty by the "normal" girls who are her classmates.What we really have in this movie is the origins of the "hippie" movement.

This movie was filmed close to my hometown and even though I was only 5 years old when it was being filmed, I remember it vividly since it was a huge deal for a town of only 10,000 people in upstate NY. The girl who used to babysit me had gone to watch the some of the filming and had taken pictures of Liza Minelli and her little Volkswagon Beetle that was used in the film. Now as an adult who has moved to an entirely different part of the country from where I was raised, I love to catch this movie on a Saturday afternoon and just take note of the locations in the film, particularly that scene where Jerry and Pookie rent a cabin by a lake. The movie and its soundtrack always brings back a strong sense of nostalgia and that secure feeling one always has in one's childhood and the simplicity of life as a child.