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Movie Review: Crazy First Love

Written by Cara de Pescado
Published January 01, 2007

Crazy First Love (Cheotsarang sasu gwolgidaehoe) is a Korean film following Son Tae-il's love for Joon Il-mae. He met her while being breastfed and has loved her ever since. The opening is a cartoon version of how Tae-il and Il-mae were breastfed together and sort of set the tone for this less than stellar film. Oh, and yes, cartoon nipples are disturbing.

The rest of the film isn't animated and opens with Tae-il yelling about his pubic hair and how Il-mae's father broke a promise. The promise, apparently, was that Tae-Il could marry Il-mae once he started growing pubic hair. I think his chances of winning her heart should have stopped there, as a male yelling in front of all my friends, his friends, and my father and shaking his pubes for all to see isn't my idea of being wooed.

Judging from her reaction, it isn't exactly Il-mae's idea of romanticism either. But Il-mae's father, who happens to be Tae-il's teacher, gives him a quest that would guarantee he could marry Il-mae: improve his grades to be in the top 3,000 nationally. He does this and Teacher requests that Tae-il go on to go to college, law school, pass the bar, and numerous other tasks before he'll grant Il-mae's hand in marriage to Tae-il. In the meantime, the boy tries to guard Il-mae's purity and protect her. As annoying as Tae-Il is, he sure is persistent, I'll give him that.

crazy first loveBlah, blah, blah, gag, blah, right? A tedious plot that doesn't know when to move on is further frustrated because Son Tae-il is either crying or screaming everything he says, and sometimes both. It's loud and annoying, making you think he's quite wimpy and probably undeserving of the young woman's heart anyway. And you start to wonder why Tae-il doesn't realize the public fits of screaming and crying aren't going to win Il-mae's heart, and why the movie doesn't come with a warning that you will need to take Advil every five minutes to fight off the headache from the loud whininess.

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In real life she's Erin McMaster, but Cara de Pescado is one of the fortunate ones to be considered a Masked Movie Snob. She puts her fins to work and writes Reviews From A Fishbowl.
Movie Review: Crazy First Love
Published: January 01, 2007
Type: Review
Section: Video
Filed Under: Video: Foreign Language, Video: Romantic Comedies
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