Author: gin

(aka The Bachelor, Singapore)

So…first off, I’m a girl. Of course I liked this movie. It has everything I could want in a romcom. Is it going to win any awards? Probably not. Is it even actually a good movie? Debatable. But that doesn’t always matter for me, when it comes to watching movies. A movie doesn’t have to be good by definition for me to like and enjoy it. And that’s what this movie is. By superior (film snob) standards, it’s mostly trash. It has a plot we’ve all seen before…you know, girl falls in love with super rich guy (not knowing that he’s super rich) and finds out that she’s dating the “Asian Bachelor” when she goes to meet his family in Singapore. Said family makes her feel inferior, and she has to question if she really belongs in his life. If you haven’t seen this plot before, you haven’t watched a lot of chick flicks. That being said, there’s something supremely comforting about watching this movie. It’s sweet, it’s funny, and yes, it’s predictable. Awkwafina and Ken Jeong are hilarious as expected, and I was impressed by the performances of Henry Golding and Constance Wu. Overall, a delightful movie with a few surprises and lots of laughs. I enjoyed it, and (unless you hate fun) you will too.

(aka Would You Like a Box of Tissues with that Popcorn?)

Seriously though. Bring tissues. This movie is beautiful. And it’s sad. And it’s beautifully sad. Be ready to cry and I mean ugly cry, because it will happen. Unless you’re the woman and her daughter who somehow managed to (sneak?) bring their yetis into the theater and sit through the end credits dry-eyed like robots while everyone around them wiped their eyes and blew their noses with napkins, tissues, ticket stubs, receipts…anything they could find. They really could have been robots. Or maybe they were drunk. Either way it was weird. But back to the movie. It will make you sad. Sad that you’re no longer a child, sad that you had to grow up, and sad for all of the children who never watched or will never watch Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. I was one of the lucky ones. I did watch his show. That beautiful, gentle soul was a part of my childhood and helped shape me in ways that I can’t even fathom. This movie celebrates his life and shows that yes, he was just a man, but he was a special man. An incredible man, who loved the world and everyone in it. It shows that he did things on tv that nobody had done, or would have even considered doing at the time. Things that didn’t seem all that special to us, as kids, or unusual. But they were special. They were unusual. And what he did meant something.

Watch this movie!