Minyeo-neun goerowo (2006)

User Rating:

6.9/10   

Director:

Yong-hwa Kim

Writers:

Seon-jeong Kim (co-writer)
Yong-hwa Kim (writer)

Release Date:

14 December 2006 (South Korea)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Plot:

Hanna is the famous Korean pop singer. She suffers from having extremely poor self-esteem, as she has been ignored because of her appearance. At last, she makes the decision of a lifetime to have full-body plastic surgery. |

Plot Keywords:

Based On Comic | 200 Pounds Beauty

Awards:

2 wins & 2 nominations

Cast

Ah-jung Kim	...	Kang Han-na
Jin-mo Ju	...	Sang-jun
Yong-geon Kim
Dong-il Song
Hyeon-shik Lim
Han-wi Lee
Hyeon-sook Kim
No-shik Park
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Beom-su Lee	...	(cameo)
Won-jong Lee	...	(cameo)
Seung-su Ryu	...	(cameo)

Also Known As:

200 Pounds Beauty (International: English title)

Runtime:

South Korea:120 min

Country:

South Korea

Language:

Korean

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

South Korea:12 | Singapore:PG | Hong Kong:IIA | Malaysia:U

Company:

KM Culture Co.

Movie Connections:

Version of Gekijô ban Kanna san daiseikô desu! (2009)

Funny, sweet, romantic, all-time awesome movie ever!

This is a movie that follows a typical happy romantic comedy.. starts off happy, goes down.. back up.. and it hits the top and stays there. But then again, 200 pounds beauty is SO much more! On the surface it is already a great movie. The fat girl protagonist Hanna is very cute and kind, later she turns into beautiful and thin but still kind and innocent Jenny. So there's a bit of eyecandy, both cute and sexy throughout the whole movie. But then there's the funny bits, the movie has hilarious little kicks throughout the whole movie, making you laugh at all the right movies.

But then there's a deeper side. This movie talks about themes such as the superficial view of the world, how beauty becomes an obsession, how the most beautiful heart can hide inside a bigger girl, how people will give everything to a girl with beautiful face-- superficiality yet again.

The sad parts that touched deep to the heart of the film are very well scripted and acted.. I cried so many times watching it to see an 'ugly' girl turned beautiful, but having to give so much up and yet not quite happy with the shallow joys that this new body and face have given her.

A small disappointment however was that the story's villain did not do much and disappeared for the majority of the movie and out of the viewer's mind, rendering the character pretty useless and taking away a little something more the movie could have had.

Overall, a feel-good movie that is a definite must watch! It goes above all my initial expectations and is guaranteed to make you laugh, cry, love and think!