Review: Homecoming [Mandarin/Cantonese] (U)Category: Movie
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 90 mins
Watched at: TGV @ Wangsa Walk Mall
Timing: 12.00 p.m.
Rating: 4.50 / 5.00
Overall & Theme
First of all, it's a movie from Lee Thean-jeen, starred by Jack Neo, Mark Lee, Afdlin Shauki, Ah Niu, Jacelyn Tay, Huang Wenhong, Rebecca Lim and Koe Yeet. Major part of this movie is hilarious and for the touching scenes you guys can expect it if you are aware of the plots. The message or the main theme is quite obvious as you can feel it strongly when you're watching the movie. This scene is the scene that I remember most vividly whereby Jack Neo sacrifices "her" lottery ticket, which entitled "her" $8,000 as the first prize, to exchange air ticket with an Indian guy so that the little girl can rush back to her home to see her dad whom she missed a lot.
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| The girl who missed her dad a lot after leaving him alone in Singapore. |
Family-based Theme
Not too emphasizing on the comedy side, this story is all about homecoming and the importance of family. Through the plots at the beginning, the message is delivered successfully. A few examples here:
- The story starts with the homecoming of Jack Neo and Ah Niu with the intention to introduce a girl to Ah Niu. Throughout the story, they exhibit that they are so keen on going back for the reunion. This is further supported by the other family members of theirs, waiting for them to start the dinner, showing the importance of the dinner and the traditions. =)
- Supporting the climax mentioned in the above point, there is another little scene exhibited by the young spouse in the family. Being the modern generation and not being in the traditional Chinese family, the wife doesn't understand the meaning of the reunion dinner for Chinese. Spending a day with her husband's family, she seems to understand it slowly and have given up the free trip to Bali Island after the reunion dinner and chose to wait for Jack Neo and Ah Niu. =)
- Mark Lee is an ego and proud character in the movie, who always complains the work done by his fellow cooks. When Chinese New Year is around the corner, all his cooks leave he himself there being so helpless to complete the dinner preparation for the Minister. His restaurant manager helped him for the first time by bringing all her family members there to cook, but gave up to help him after he had scolded all her family members away. Fortunately, she returned to the restaurant with her family to help him at last. =) After the dinner, he's surprised by the return of his daughter in the end.
Hope you guys will enjoy this movie a lot as it really reminds you about your family, just like how Great Day reminded us too.
Signed off by,
Jeffrey
