“Fast-flying planes still make kids dream a little, don't they? »

"For once there's a film we want to see together!"

Stephane was thrilled to take his 13-year-old son Leo to the movies to see

.

“We even went for a drink together afterwards to talk about it.

Well, he didn't have a beer…”

Behind the staggering success of the sequel to the 1986 film at the box office, particularly in France with 3.3 million admissions in three weeks, hides a transgenerational phenomenon confirmed by Internet users at

: number of viewers of

go there with their children.

Among the people who responded to our call for contributions, many fathers (and a few mothers) even explained that they went to see the film alone… before returning with their offspring.

“The old

Top Gun

made me dream when I was a teenager!

»

It is, first of all of course, a banal story of transmission.

For a whole generation, which basically grew up in the 1980s,

is a monument of pop culture.

It is normal to want to introduce your children to it… “At 8 and 10, my sons are too young to watch Star Wars, of which I am a fan, says Anthony.

But

, it passes.

Apart from the love story, I knew they were going to like it.

»

Another dad "overwhelmed by the nullity of Marvel films" to which his son and daughter, teenagers, sometimes drag him, was "very proud and fulfilled" that his offspring prefer "to discover the first

on M6 then the sequel at the cinema rather than going to see the new

, which looks like it sucks and isn't up to Spielberg at all.

“A hint of cinephilia in this desire for transgenerational sharing therefore, but above all, a story of father-son bond.

An overwhelming majority of testimonials concern dads and their sons.

There is thus Steven, who is not afraid of clichés: “This film is a guy thing.

I wanted to take my son because I wanted to share this with him, as a father and as a man.

The old

made me dream when I was a teenager!

»

“They are super green, planes so so for them”

However, these moments of virile complicity did not always work.

“We went to see the film as a family, says Brice.

I said to myself: "Planes that go fast still make kids dream a little, don't they?".

Well, not at all… My children were rather bored.

As they are nice they didn't show it too much because with my wife, we had told them that we loved the first film… But I really felt that there was a gap between us on this film.

»

Sonia also had doubts about her nephews' taste for this kind of film – “they are super green, planes so so for them” – but took them to a session all the same.

“There are no more blockbusters like that, real awesome movies with heroes who don't have superpowers.

is a dying genre of film.

We must hurry to see them on the big screen before there are no more at all.

»

Movie theater

“Top Gun: Maverick”: Why is Tom Cruise always on top?

Francis Ford Coppola, Oliver Stone and more directors respond

Movie theater

“Top Gun: Maverick”: How the hot-headed pilot matured with Tom Cruise (and vice-versa)

• Movie theater

• Tom Cruise

• Plane

• Box office

• your life your opinion