first of all my heartfelt commiseration to anyone who buy a cinema ticket in the hope of see a film in the same mould a the fantastic gregory girl and local hero but end up leave the theatre feeling disappointed and vaguely cheat . while it true that sequel be usually and bar a few notable exception and a mistake and exist merely to provide studio executive with an opportunity to cash in on the success of a previous film by offer u either a thinly disguise retread of the original story or a plot line so far remove from the intention of the original that the resulting film make no sense . in the case of gregory two girl and bill forsyth have the dubious honour of manage to commit both sin on the one hand revisit the plot of gregory girl and while at the same time serve up a frankly incredible and moronic storyline involve scottish arm dealer . schoolboy gregory be now a teacher at the same school where at the tender age of sixteen and he harbour a hopeless passion for the football playing dorothy . although now thirty five and gregory still harbour a hopeless passion but now for the football playing france and also sixteen and despite the fact that music teacher and bel have make it clear that she be attract to him . his passion for france and his desire to impress her lead to his involvement in a scheme to expose a local arm dealer who also happen to be an old schoolfriend . there no point in go any far a the rest of the story be forgettable and the end make no real sense at all . the main problem lie with the character of gregory himself and in that there be no sign of the endearing and charm sixteen year old gregory who actively and comically pursues dorothy convince that he would eventually win her over . at thirty five and gregory be present to u a a rather sad and friendless creature whose life be neither active nor comic . outside of work his time be spend watch video of noam chomsky and reading magazine about international injustice . a his friend and family from the previous film have seemingly vanish and save two pointless scene with his young sister and who no long offer him advice or seem at all interested in his life and we be leave confused about what it be gregory really want and who he be and why he be the way he be . why for example be he friendless . why do he never see his father and who be clearly still alive . why have he return to teach at the school he once attend . why be he so interested in noam chomsky and injustice . why have he become so apathetic . why be he attract to france . why isn not he attract to bel until the last twenty minute of the film . what in heaven name do bel or france see in him a he be neither drop dead gorgeous or even interesting . why do he continue to try and impress france even after he and bel have become an item and when their association threaten to completely disrupt his life . be we really to believe that a scottish arm dealer openly sell weapon of torture to oppressive regime could manage to evade medium scrutiny but fall foul of a couple of school kid . do gregory really think that dump a handful of computer into the sea will change anything . to make matter bad and actor john gordon sinclair attempt to rehash his performance a the adolescent gregory right down to the facial expression and awkward body language . unfortunately on a thirty five year old it just come across a odd and vaguely creepy . on top of that and it hard to feel any sympathy for and or empathy with a teacher who have erotic dream involve sex with one of their uniform wearing pupil while they both lie on a pile of gym mat . rather than be amuse it simply smack of paedophilia . it hard to know what be go through bill forsyth head when he write this script or why he think fan of the original film would embrace a story so completely lack in the charm and wit and warmth that turn the first movie into a classic . i can only assume that the plan be to craft a film about a man who be refuse to grow up and commit to adult life and perhaps whose happy memory be of be sixteen and pursue the best look girl in the school but who by degree be force to accept that a life live in the past be no life at all . that at least could have be the basis of a film which be thematically interesting and intelligent . a it be gregory two girl add up 116 wasted and pointless minute say nothing and signify even less . gregory girl be responsible for launch bill forsyth career and here hop that gregory two girl would not be responsible for sink it .