Synopsis
Gyun-Woo (Cha Tae-Hyun), who can't forget the sassy girl, meet
his first love (Victoria). He fell in love with her when they were in
elementary school. At the time, other kids teased her because she wasn't very
good with Korean. Despite the opposition of others, Gyun-Woo and his first love
marry. What awaits for Gyun-Woo goes beyond his imagination.
Gyun-woo falls in love with his elementary school classmate,
a sassy girl from China who is always teased as she is not fluent in the Korean
language. Several years later, the two meet again as adults. They get married
to each other despite going against both their families' approval. But things
turn rather tricky for Gyun-woo when he is having a hard time dealing with his
new married life.
The narrative of the movie is one that is rather predictable
and lacks depth. The development of the story was hasty, and it did not help
that the onscreen chemistry between Tae-hyun and Victoria is nearly zero.
Albeit Gyun-woo still aced as the comedic, happy-to-go guy. But because of the
shallow plot, even the element of ‘romantic-comedy’ was also absent.
This movie is a joint Korea-China production and aims for a
simultaneous theater release in both countries sometime next year.
The movie is unable to reproduce the success from the first film, however if one was a hardcore fan of the first movie, then they would find this entertaining as well. The film is understood that it is a joint production between China and Korea.
ReplyDeleteCompared to the first installment "My Sassy Girl", the second film is lacking on so many levels.
Frankly, the only tension in the movie comes from two sources: the male lead’s insecurities and a half-hearted quasi-love triangle (in which nothing serious even happens) involving a Japanese coworker as the third leg. Neither of these is particularly emotive or compelling.
ReplyDeleteOverall, My New Sassy Girl feels less like a sequel than an unfaithful remake of the original with Chinese characteristics. Instead of being novel and evocative, it’s uninspiring–an amalgamation of various Chinese rom-com tropes with a Korean brand name slapped on top.
ReplyDeleteIf you had pinned some hopes of getting a good laugh out of this rom-com, you might be in for disappointments. My New Sassy Girl probably did not outdo its predecessor with the cheesy lines and unexciting plot. Even the element of ‘sassy’ was largely missing in this one.
ReplyDeleteI loved the first movie mainly because of Cha Tae Hyun and Jeon Ji Hyun. The story itself was alright, but the refreshing part was a non-Candy girl as the main female protagonist, and Jeon Ji Hyun doing a bang-up job of making her likable despite being a completely crazy weirdo, at least from Cha Tae Hyun’s perspective.
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