Goodbye Mr. Loser (2015) User Reviews

I had a good laugh!

[TheNeel · 7/10 · 30 November 2015]

Teng Shen is an undignified man who lives an unhappy life with his wife. He is given another shot at his life; after he blacks out, getting drunk at his old crush's wedding. He wakes up in his old classroom back in his high-school days. Yes he goes back in time! Not a sci-fi by any means, but a good romantic comedy. The film is a fun ride of quick humour and good music. The script is well written and the characters well enacted. I was into the film from first to last, not a second of boredom! A feel-good movie worth your time. It does offer a powerful hidden-morale but that's for you to find out.

Enjoy!!

A good comedy, with a "chicken soup" style ending, but good enough

[d-04806 · 8/10 · 21 November 2020]

In the movie, Xia Luo (portrayed by Shen Teng) is on his way to his high school crush's wedding. To hide from his raging wife, who barged in during the wedding, he ducks into the bathroom. When he comes out, he's back in high school. Even though it all turns out to be a dream and he never time traveled, everything he has in the dream represents what he subconsciously thinks he wants. Fame. Money. Success. A beautiful wife. But in reality, he doesn't even know what he wants. When he is poor, he wants riches. When he is rich, he wants his original (poor) life back. In real life, his mother is dead, so in his dream, she is alive. In real life, he is poor, so in the dream, he is rich, etc. But he eventually realizes that all the money and fame only make him even more miserable than he was before. His mother starts dating his friend, his wife cheats on him, etc. His "dream life" is beginning to shatter. The lesson of this movie was very valuable (be happy with what you have), but kind of chicken soup-y. However, overall, I would say it's a good parody on the "dream lives" of many of us.

Tragedy is Getting What You Thought You Wanted

[boblipton · 6/10 · 24 October 2015]

While attending the wedding of his high school crush, Teng Shen is humiliated by his wife and gets blackout drunk ... and awakes back in high school. Using his memories of his former life, he eventually gets everything he wanted, including a major musical career and the girl from high school, only to realize how miserable it makes him.

It's a very well written and performed comedy, with some real character exposition and funny jokes. While the outline is familiar to me -- I've been reading science fiction for more than five decades -- it's put together well, including some nice musical interludes to keep the audience happy. Although the sub-textual message is excessively normative -- don't hope for something more, but be happy with what you have -- it's put together in an unflaggingly engaging fashion.

A hilarious and memorable movie...

[paul_haakonsen · 6/10 · 10 May 2017]

Directors Da-Mo Peng and Fei Yan put China back on the comedy world map with work on "Goodbye Mr. Loser".

"Goodbye Mr. Loser" (aka "Xia Luo te fan nao") starts out in a very hilarious way. At a wedding, Xia Luo (played by Teng Shen) gets drunk and get the brilliant idea of singing a love song to his high school crush Qiuya (played by Zhi Wang), whom is getting married to someone else. This love song does not go well with Xia Lou's wife Ma Dong Mei (played by Li Ma). Xia Luo hides in the bathroom, but when he comes back out from hiding, he finds himself back in his glorious high school days. Has he been given a second chance to do things over, or is it a chance to relive his former prime? From there on the movie just keeps up its established hilarious atmosphere and keeps adding on to that. And writers and directors Da-Mo Peng and Fei Yan really deserve a big, big thumbs up on their accomplishment with "Goodbye Mr. Loser".

There are so many funny moments throughout the course of this movie, and I found myself laughing hard so many times. I was thoroughly enjoying myself throughout the course of this movie, and I really liked the storyline.

Furthermore, the characters in the movie were so well-rounded and detailed and unique. The characters in "Goodbye Mr. Loser" are colorful, memorable and outstanding, really adding a lot of flavor to the storyline.

The cast list had some great talents to it, and people were doing really good jobs in bringing their characters to life on the screen as they performed in "Goodbye Mr. Loser".

If you enjoy Asian cinema and comedies, then you should definitely take the chance to watch "Goodbye Mr. Loser" if you have the chance, because this is a memorable and entertaining movie.

Loving Someone as Who They Are

[GinaDRX · 7/10 · 29 July 2022]

I was expecting a simple comedy but was touched by the love story. It is about a married man who did not know what he wanted. The leading character, Xia Luo, went to the wedding party of his high school crush, when he drank too much and started to re-iterate his "love" for her. His current wife, who was in the same high school class, came to the party and of course chaos followed, until he passed out from the alcohol. When he opened his eyes, he found himself in his high school class.

The story developed from there, when Xia Luo was doing everything to get his crush to like him. At the same time, the wife had loved him since forever. It could have been a silly love triangle story, but the wife line had a lot of touching moments. So who did Xia Luo choose?

The movie has quite some funny moments, nothing legendarily funny but good enough. Surprisingly it also made me cry. Overall a light comedy with a moving love story.

How do people eat pizza in the future?

[yoggwork · 7/10 · 19 February 2019]

How do people eat pizza in the future? To tell the truth, it is the peak of recent comedy movies, not relying on vulgar passages, natural and endless jokes, the main actors in place. At the same time, the music is well matched, especially the second generation of officials. It really sets off the harbors in the same period as garbage. However, some of the plot content is too much out of the loop, such as mother Xia, such as beautiful women, rich life must be unhappy.

A little better than those bad movies

[w-71474 · 6/10 · 26 April 2020]

1. This is simply the most embarrassing experience of watching movies in my life.

The film is really hot, and I have seen a 100% attendance. All the audience laughed, and the two girls who accompanied me laughed happily. However, I grinned about ten times in a hundred minutes (thanks to Yuan Hua and Yimei Mei for the laugh points). At other times, I have been saying "too embarrassing" "how terrible" and "uncomfortable" It was a comedy that made me sweat and sweat.

At that time, I had realized the inner arrogance of this comedy's creator: their satire is so spicy, absurd and so malicious, and deliberately acting silly can not be ignored.

2. But why does such a movie have such a chicken soup ending?

Especially when I came back to review the reviews, I saw eyes full of "warmth", "cherishment", "movement" and "middle-age crisis" ... are we watching a movie? (The last time I saw such a mindless public opinion was on the page of "Doraemon: Walk with me", and I "cried" all over my eyes, I thought I was blind.)

If I were a screenwriter, it would be malicious in the end: when Charlotte in Nan Ke's dream died of AIDS, let him die. Eleven of the ten viewers could guess that Charlotte was going back, and they were all happy. It 's not as good as this: As soon as the lens turned, a burst of white light, the face immersed in water. Then Ma Dongmei, leading the classmates, smashed the door of the wedding room toilet and found-Charlotte! My head is immersed in the water and suffocates myself!

Second chances

[tenshi_ippikiookami · 4/10 · 17 December 2016]

Xia Luo is married to Madong Mei, but is still in love with his high school crush, Qiuya. On Qiuya's wedding he decides to get drunk and sing to Qiuya a love song. Madong Mei is not very happy with his behavior and attacks him. Xia Luo runs away and hides in the toilet.

But when he leaves it, he is back to his high school days... And now he has a second chance. What will he change? Will he 'conquer' Qiuya's heart?

The story is not to be taken too seriously (even if we actually get a couple of serious moments), and we can see the ending coming from almost the very beginning. But the plot is not really what matters in a time-travelling comedy. A story like this is perfect to be acted and directed with silliness in its heart. That the story is simple and self-centered around Xia Luo could be forgiven if it was funny and with a frantic pace. However the laughs come and go, and the pace is too uneven. That without forgetting that it has a couple of worrisome moments, starting with Xia Luo's penchant to sexually harass Qiuya after he has traveled back in time (even if he believes it is a dream).

"Goodbye Mr.Loser" is a not very original comedy, worth a couple of chuckles, but that is also way overacted and with problems of pace. A middling effort.

A pretty emotional movie with a unique love story

[vishalfrombombay · 6/10 · 10 January 2022]

Engrossing film with pretty good production efforts. Catchy songs, and pretty good background score. One of the unique stories where our protagonist played by Shen Teng gets an opportunity to go back to his school days and a chance to redo his life. The only problem with this movie is that Shen Teng as his younger self looks completely out of place in the school environment. He looked more like a professor disguised as a student. They should have given more efforts towards portraying the actor as his younger self. A good example of achieving this feat is Christian Bale's transformation as Trevor Reznik for his movie The Machinist.

Also, this movie feels like as if it had two sets of makers - one doing the 1st 1 hour, and the other doing the final 40 minute act which definitely steals the show. Watch it for the final 40 minutes of this movie.

a sexist movie, a chocolate-flavored piece of crap

[wayne_94_ · 3/10 · 7 February 2024]

The protagonist, Xia Luo, is a completely failed male character. He can be described as utterly incompetent, relying on his wife (also his high school classmate) Ma Dongmei to support his entire life. However, for some reason, he feels that his wife is not worthy of him. He is crazily nostalgic and infatuated with the school beauty from his high school days, Qiu Ya.

After getting drunk at Qiu Ya's wedding, he travels through time in a dream, returning to his high school days. He seizes the opportunity to become successful by plagiarizing the works of a future musical genius (Jay Chou), and he wins the admiration of the school beauty, Qiu Ya. However, he quickly feels that life is incredibly empty, and beneath Qiu Ya's beautiful exterior lies a frivolous soul. Eventually, the version of him in the dream world is abandoned by everyone, while only Ma Dongmei remains faithfully by his side.

Back in reality, he's still a failure, but now he's become a failure who is (quite literally) hanging onto his wife, Ma Dongmei. What a touching story.

In the movie, there are two main female characters, Ma Dongmei and Qiu Ya.

Ma Dongmei, as a hardworking and capable woman, is only recognized and appreciated in the movie because of her baseless infatuation with Xia Luo. And Xia Luo's only form of repayment to her after waking up from the dream is his "love," as if this is all this woman expects from him. Furthermore, the portrayal of Ma Dongmei's love in the movie is also questionable. It suggests that a woman's love is only genuine when she tirelessly cares for a man, treating him like a giant baby in her arms.

The portrayal of the other female character, Qiu Ya, is even more malicious. Qiu Ya doesn't love Xia Luo. At the beginning of the movie, she marries a man who is as ugly as a pig (in Xia Luo's eyes). However, in Xia Luo's dream, Qiu Ya admires him deeply because of his (plagiarized) talent. In Xia Luo's eyes, the only reason Qiu Ya doesn't love him is because of his poverty. If he were to gain enough social resources and achieve a high enough social status, then Qiu Ya would marry him, just like she marries that ugly man. The movie uses this to illustrate the value of Ma Dongmei. Shouldn't it be that Qiu Ya simply inherently doesn't love Xia Luo, just as she wouldn't fall in love with any other random guy? The characterization of Qiu Ya deeply stigmatizes women.

I must admit that I found many scenes in this movie quite amusing. In fact, the creators have a great talent for comedy. However, the creators' talent cannot overshadow the sexist elements within the movie's theme. These sexist components turn this film into a chocolate-flavored piece of crap - perhaps enjoyable in the moment, but nauseating to think about afterwards.