My Best Summer (2019) User Reviews

Good Enough

[PennyReviews · 6/10 · 17 August 2019]

My best summer is the movie remake of the drama With You. Because of that, many events were a bit rushed. However, still, the movie itself was good.

What I really liked about the movie compared to the drama, was that they gave us a better ending. It was well concluded, although it could have been just a bit better. Still, it was satisfying.

Another thing that worked for My best summer, was the chemistry between the two leads. Plus, the acting was good too. The friendship part, in addition, added a fresh note to the story.

So, overall, six out of ten.

Same old Chinese youth love story

[Bobby Briggs Briganza · 5/10 · 19 June 2019]

While these movies are always "sunny" (a Chinese term), bright and delightful, at the same time they are so chaste and cliche as to seem like the CCP got a hold of them. The romantic couple never even HUGS for seven years!

In short, it's a movie that's safe to watch with your Chinese grandmother in the room-though she would probably roll her eyes because even she gave your grandfather a kiss within the first month of dating.

A more worthwhile movie in this genre, ironically, is the remake of More Than Blue (2018). It carries the theme of "I love you, but I will never ever tell you" to hilarious extreme, yet it's such a tear jerker that you can't laugh at how ridiculous it is. A fun time.

Questionable acting, lighthearted, sweet and cliché

[hanalisss · 5/10 · 4 July 2022]

The acting on this one is very questionable, I have watched countless Chinese movies and dramas and this one just doesn't hot the spot and I think that's the reason. This is the first Chinese movie where I don't care for any of the leads and find their actions forced , did not feel one bit of chemistry and I don't buy any of the actor's emotions.

The plot is okay enough , if you actually buy the fact that someone can just wait for 7 years and continuing feeling what they were feeling back then ( which obviously is completely unrealistic) But then is pretty much predictable and filled with clichés.

There's many movies with the same style but better executed.

Still entertaining if you want to watch something lighthearted.

Best nursery rhyme alternative

[XShayanX · 1/10 · 17 January 2022]

What I really liked about this movie is how fast it was able to put me to sleep. You'd imagine you're watching a movie so it has to have elements of entertainment, joy and fun but it's absolutely ResidentSleeper if you know what I mean.

DO NOT recommend.

Painfully corny, wholesome, cliched romcom

[johntravolta12345 · 8 June 2019]

This movie is almost entirely a waste of time. It does have one redeeming quality though, for foreign audiences- gives us a lens into then culture kids grow up in, what pressures they face, and what they aspire to be and seem to care about, in China today. Being a nerd is cool. Winning physics competitions there is the equivalent of being a high school football star in the USA. Theirs is an effeminate, wholesome, romantic world. Diametrically opposed to ours (in the West) where crude obscenities have become our new normal. Yet it is also a distinctly self-centered and materialistic world, similar to ours in the West. Interesting.

It felt like the show was chopped

[cassielund-03620 · 3/10 · 1 August 2023]

I watched this show because I think Haha He is very good actress, but the show was everywhere. I felt the director removed scenes to keep it under 30 minutes an episode and really hurt the show in the end. Also they had to inject two other couples into the show and became a cluster show. The emotions from the characters felt like they didn't believe what they doing on this show. Since they created so many side stories it was the downfall of the main characters who never really were able to develop an emotional to the audience. The Chinese romances are pumped out like water now and so many to choose from. I have only run into a couple that I would call excellent shows with good character development. The Taiwanese and Korean shows are much better 95% of the time.

nice film

[cB391 · 9/10 · 10 October 2019]

The movie does what it generally sets out to.

Most of the movies of this type tend to rotate around a basic story. The end is a reveal that tells you why what you thought was wrong. In some cases the characters come together, in others they don't. Depends on the story. I quite enjoyed it.

============================================================= -Having seen many mystery movies/detective movies that run on the same premise. Pretend like the protagonist is intelligent by not showing you the clues they find until the end. -Similar to many action movies. Fighting for the sake of it with magic bullets in most cases. If you enjoy those kinds of movies, you might like this one or you might not.

Some of the other comments seem quite odd. They seem to try and understand the movie from an external aspect without getting into the culture/genre. Most of the focus for top students trying to get into a good university would be around their schooling... if you were making a movie about a war, you would have a large percent of the movie focused on the war.

If you want graphic sexual movies, there are plenty of those. If you want random sexual aspects that needn't be depicted directly, then you look for other kinds of movies. This isn't intended to be obscene. It is intended to entertain, encourage people to take action in their lives if the situation fits etc. or just tell a story.

-The movie is supposed to show how gaps can exist in knowledge and expectation. To show how longing can be heartbreaking for some people while others have reasons for choosing that same longing. -Finally, while it is beneficial to have knowledge about the culture before watching the movie, it is still a standalone movie, and needn't be used to infer too much.

They really need better writers

[tenthyoung · 4/10 · 28 November 2023]

This movie.has great actors, great production, and great cinematography, but the writing itself failed to really produce a story that was worth watching.

It definitely has its moments of being heartfelt but at the same time you feel frustrated and wonder what is the point of this movie.

SPOILER ALERT

For one, we don't understand why Chen Chen likes Zheng. There is absolutely nothing redeemable besides him looking slightly "handsome" but otherwise he is completely arrogant and has zero to no redeemable qualities.

The girl is the best part of the film. As she genuinely cares about her parents and she is definitely stricken by this boy and doesn't know how to handle it.

In the end, the movie is mostly about how you can't force someone to like you when they don't like you. But it is underwhelming because you feel like they are trying to build a romance. Only for the two leads to finally kiss and the guy just says, "I can never like you." Like what the hell? Why even kiss her then?

It's just awful. And at the end when he's playing music and she's in the audience, that's it???

It was beautifully shot, but I just don't understand this movie at all. And I feel like it could have been so much better.

The girl deserved so much better and I wish the ending gave her some conclusion to the end but it didn't.

This movie was bad. And they had great material to work with.

I would have changed the plot to where they explained why they didn't like her. Like maybe it's because their dreams differed and they couldn't accomplish their dreams if they ended up together like in La La Land. But instead there was never an explanation.

It was just probably he wasn't attracted to her. Which is a valid reason but why spend so much time leading her on. And how was them pretending to be in a relationship necessary at all for any reason? It could have been better .

Lovely movie

[joanne-78049 · 10/10 · 29 July 2019]

Touching story about young love acting is excellent from all the actors. Really enjoyed this movie .

Very good youth Chinese movie

[ippon1410 · 8/10 · 12 August 2019]

The story was very good , it was brought me to my teenage moment n feels like wanna turn back time to youth moment....... friendship n first love forever

sweet teen love

[curtispeace · 10/10 · 18 January 2022]

This is a good old Chinese high school love story, enjoy!, you'll like it if you have half a heart, yeah, yeah, yeah, just a cute love story, nothing bad about that.