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- 2018
- TV-14
- Warner Bros. F.E.
- 2 h
- 2018
- TV-14
- Warner Bros. F.E.
- 2 h
Summary Crazy Rich Asians follows native New Yorker Rachel Chu (Constance Wu) as she accompanies her longtime boyfriend, Nick Young (Henry Golding), to his best friend’s wedding in Singapore. Excited about visiting Asia for the first time but nervous about meeting Nick’s family, Rachel is unprepared to learn that Nick has neglected to mention a...
Directed By: Jon M. Chu
Written By: Peter Chiarelli, Adele Lim, Kevin Kwan
- 2018
- TV-14
- Warner Bros. F.E.
- 2 h
- 2018
- TV-14
- Warner Bros. F.E.
- 2 h
Crazy Rich Asians
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Summary Crazy Rich Asians follows native New Yorker Rachel Chu (Constance Wu) as she accompanies her longtime boyfriend, Nick Young (Henry Golding), to his best friend’s wedding in Singapore. Excited about visiting Asia for the first time but nervous about meeting Nick’s family, Rachel is unprepared to learn that Nick has neglected to mention a...
Directed By: Jon M. Chu
Written By: Peter Chiarelli, Adele Lim, Kevin Kwan
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 50 Critic Reviews
74
92% Positive
46 Reviews
46 Reviews
6% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
2% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 50 Critic Reviews
74
92% Positive
46 Reviews
46 Reviews
6% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
2% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
It’s a reinvented romantic comedy, sassy and fun, that doesn’t necessarily rely on obvious tropes and is worth the wait.
By Danny Yu
FULL REVIEW
Like the best musicals, Crazy Rich Asians joyously embraces a heightened aesthetic while keeping its story grounded in real emotional truth.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 318 User Ratings
6.8
64% Positive
202 Ratings
202 Ratings
24% Mixed
77 Ratings
77 Ratings
12% Negative
39 Ratings
39 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 318 User Ratings
6.8
64% Positive
202 Ratings
202 Ratings
24% Mixed
77 Ratings
77 Ratings
12% Negative
39 Ratings
39 Ratings
Crazy Rich Asians is able to blend a light hearted rom com with a serious matter, in a glamorous and extravagant manner. The show might not have the most advanced dialogue, but that surely is covered up from the wonderful performances by all the actors, and the outstanding score. Its one of the best rom-coms on Netflix.
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It’s the war between the bonds of family vs. the pull of wealth — a global theme across wide borders and cultures — that gives the film heft. But even when the script drifts into moralizing, it’s the emotions that hold sway.
In its keen and sensitive and moving observations about the uncertainty in being Asian-American, it’s always drifting, and Wu’s incredible ability to convey all those ideas wordlessly is what makes the film more than just about a material China girl.
Bright, buoyant and hilarious, though far from flawless, this romantic comedy, directed by Jon M. Chu and based on the popular novel by Kevin Kwan, is also a cultural milestone.
It’s at once deeply formulaic and—in terms of the faces and places we usually see on movie screens in the West—refreshingly unfamiliar.
As a movie that has positioned itself as the first in a hypothetical wave of representation, Crazy Rich Asians is blatantly diminished by its status. Such a burden is too much for almost any movie, especially one as intellectually, aesthetically, and sociologically featherweight as this, but its flaws are magnified in the face of its goals.
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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It's a less good, less funny version of Meet the Parents. There's never any question of whether Nick and Rachel will end up together. He's pretty explicit that he doesn't really care about his family's opinion of her, even though the family's disapproval is the main conflict of the film. The film hinges on this very forced dynamic, where some of Nick's rich family and friends try to condescend to Rachel, despite the fact that she is a 20-something economics PhD and professor at NYU (one of the most famous and respected universities in the world). And despite a pretty elaborate set up of Rachel's economics/game-theory background, this never comes into play. She doesn't outwit anybody. She has one 30-second conversation with some rich lady about monetary policy.
The film also wastes a lot of time on a pointless Astrid subplot, in which Nick's insanely beautiful/successful/wonderful cousin finds out her husband is cheating on her. We're supposed to feel bad for her, but the guy is clearly not good enough for her, and she's still a wildly successful/wealthy fashion designer, so she'll be fine.
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A film like Crazy Rich Asians is manufactured to play on women’s desires that leads to unreasonable expectations on men. I am not speaking on the fantastical “love” aspect of the film, it would be great if the film was about Rachel Chu (Constance Wu) and her desire to be with Nick (Henry Golding) but due to Nick’s family it’s not easy. But deep down that’s not what the film is about. So what is it about?
It’s about the glitz and glamour of being incredibly rich. It’s about a woman’s fantasy that one day the man they are with will invite them to Singapore to meet his family and it turns out his a billionaire. So Sally whose been with Dave for 2 years is about to meet his Mum in Texas. She is expecting them to fly first class and rock up in a Mansion. Instead it’s a two bedroom apartment and she finds out that Dave has $120,000 in student loans. Sally is going to subconsciously resent him for this even though she will pretend she doesn’t. It’s like the porn argument that is subjected on men all the time. The women on these videos do outrages things on camera and the belief is that men will expect the same thing from their girlfriend or wife. The difference between the two is that men are inundated with scornful information and education on how women should be treated and the realities of a relationship. Is a crazy, rich, Singaporean vacation a reasonable expectation? A film like Crazy Rich Asians doesn’t come with any advisory information or education. The opposite, they are embraced, they are heavily marketed and when a group of women go to see this movie they arrive home depressed and saddened on their own living situation which will in turn reflect poorly on the men in their life.
And don’t be tricked in thinking this is some empowering movie. Yes, Rachel Wu is an economics professor but this isn’t a film about a Chinese immigrant who is bought up by a single mother who has to toil her way through high school and college all while being bullied for being different. No, this is a film about how a Chinese/American woman who luckily met a man who happens to be the richest man in the world, oh, and she happens to be an economics professor. I am no different either, I got caught up in the way the film was presented. The vibrant elegance in which the film was shot as the two love birds arrived in Singapore, where, at times, it feels I was watching a commercial from the Singaporean Tourism Department as Nick mutters walking through the food markets “you know, this is one the only places in the world where street food vendors actually earn Michelin stars”. I got caught up in the massive parties and the outrages way a bride walked down the aisle. I laughed at Akwafina, Ken Jeong & Ronny Chieng, even though I thought Ronny was a little too much. And I did find both Rachel and Nick charming even though they’re both a little stale and required all this glitz and glamour to make them more enduring.
But that shouldn’t disguise the fact that while Rachel pretends that money is meaningless, it actually means everything. Rachel is the personification of what we think we will act like. But it’s not reality. Reality is that money dictates everything from our education, family and who we fall in love with.
I am not saying movies like this shouldn’t be made. It is fun to step away from reality and imagine a world where such a predicament exists. What I am saying is that we shouldn’t be naive to that fact that deep down such issues may arise. Men have to deal with expectation/reality every single day and in modern times I believe that is warranted. But I also believe that it should work both sides. Both men and women desire different things and because one expectation is deemed more sensible than the other it doesn’t discount its impact on a potential partner. So let’s cut the **** and say that movies like Crazy Rich Asians are just as detrimental to relationships as Two Girls, One Cup, even if it’s much easier on the eyes.
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I bumped my rating up because I am glad that a film with an Asian cast has done so well. I also am a fan of Constance Wu and Awkwafina. This movie, however, made me angry. Not sure why it's called a rom-com when it is neither romantic nor funny. We never got any hint at why the central couple was so meant to be together, except presumably the simple fact that they are both attractive. The movie is visually stunning, for sure, but at the end of the day it just felt like a movie about how great it is to be filthy stinking rich. Not worth my hard earned money, that's for sure.
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Production Company
Warner Bros.,
SK Global,
Starlight Culture Entertainment,
Color Force,
Ivanhoe Pictures
Release Date Aug 15, 2018
Duration 2 h
Rating TV-14
Tagline The only thing crazier than love is family
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 2 Nominations
Online Film & Television Association
• 6 Nominations
Critics Choice Awards
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations