Editing and story-line is great. Acting is generally good. Vietnamese culture and tradition is displayed well. Recommended!
3 Reviews
must-watch Vietnamese movie!
odthang12 March 2018
'Back to the Future' Meets 'The Devil Wore Prada'
Minnesota_Reid19 April 2018
This movie is an unholy hybrid of 'Back to the Future' crossed with 'The Devil Wore Prada'. Unfortunately, that may make it sound more interesting than it really is. Our lead is the heiress to a leading fashion house in Saigon, which specializes in the traditional Vietnamese dresses, the Ao Dai. But she is a spoiled brat who wants to imitate Western fashions. She is magically thrown into 2017, where her family business is long gone, and her own rebellious fashion ideas are now passé.
If you're a fan of Hong Kong comedies of the 1990s, you may like this movie a lot better than I did. Overacting, exaggerated physical movements, one dimensional characters, this movie shovels it on. It got a little less dire after the jump to 2017, but it never got actually good.
For me, a bizarre aspect of the film is how it pretends there was no history going on. No mention of the Vietnamese War at all. No Communism. For instance, at one point, the characters specifically talk about Saigon in 1975, and there was no mention of the fall of Saigon. I guess fashion is just a world apart from the one in which the rest of us live.
If you're a fan of Hong Kong comedies of the 1990s, you may like this movie a lot better than I did. Overacting, exaggerated physical movements, one dimensional characters, this movie shovels it on. It got a little less dire after the jump to 2017, but it never got actually good.
For me, a bizarre aspect of the film is how it pretends there was no history going on. No mention of the Vietnamese War at all. No Communism. For instance, at one point, the characters specifically talk about Saigon in 1975, and there was no mention of the fall of Saigon. I guess fashion is just a world apart from the one in which the rest of us live.
a bad review...
v-869348 September 2022
Target audience for this movie mostly interested in Vietnam 90's as the description so I don't understand why it include some future modern scene. I literally can't sit back and relax on this movie the girl make me so irritated and next time please focus on what theme your movie is.
I'm into the beauty of Vietnam around year 90's that's what I signed up for not modern Vietnam. I get disappointed the moment I see how brat the girl is and how bad the mother is on terms of parenting.
I wouldn't recommend this for people who interested in Vietnam history or beauty of Vietnam back then as it doesn't emphasize the beauty of Vietnam and it only focus on brat character. If you're the target audience that into brat girl, abuse her power, if anything goes in her way she'll have an attitude, brat all the way, and lots of tantrums congrats this is for you.
I'm into the beauty of Vietnam around year 90's that's what I signed up for not modern Vietnam. I get disappointed the moment I see how brat the girl is and how bad the mother is on terms of parenting.
I wouldn't recommend this for people who interested in Vietnam history or beauty of Vietnam back then as it doesn't emphasize the beauty of Vietnam and it only focus on brat character. If you're the target audience that into brat girl, abuse her power, if anything goes in her way she'll have an attitude, brat all the way, and lots of tantrums congrats this is for you.
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