Keira Bucher

To start the movie is amazing, highlighting countless up and coming Asian comedians, amazing fashion, and amazing music. It's super close to the book (although it cut out a lot of it to keep it short) and I can't wait to see the other books put into live action. In fact, seeing it on screen surpassed what I could've imagined the dresses and people to look like. Don't listen to the bad reviews, all of them A) Didn't read the books and B) Don't know anything about Asia or Singapore. Singapore, while still technically a part of China is a whole other universe. Nothing about the riches and the family drama is over exaggerated in a movie about a traditionalist race and a country where 1 in 32 people are millionaires. As someone who's pretty engrained in American Asian culture, parents here would be seen as progressive compared to actual Singaporeans. Eleanor's reaction is in fact a lot more dull than the story wrote, and the story was written by someone who grew up in the rich sector of Singapore and wrote this story based off an actual family! Sure it's a romcom, it's bound to be cliché, people watch it to not think much and feel good, but if you're criticizing it because of what you think Asians should be like you clearly know nothing about the movie and have no right to criticize it on those factors.