Michael's Movie Grade: A-
A bizarre, wild, crazy and hilarious yet oddly very touching movie.
This is the type of film where anything can happen and does. There is a universe where people have hot dogs for fingers, there is a hilarious parody of Ratatouille with racoons and there is a bagel with literally everything on it (including hopes and dreams). And anytime you think the film can't get weirder it does. Most of this weirdness is not only funny but laugh out loud hilarious. In fact, I don't think I heard a movie theater audience laugh this hard at a modern film in quite a while. Yet if this movie was only bizarre weirdness for over two hours, it would have grown tiresome and lost an audience's interest. However, there is a surprisingly touching story about the relationship between a mother and daughter holding this all together. This story is incredibly sweet and unashamedly pulls on your heartstrings. Yet the strange humor keeps it from ever feeling overtly sentimental. Over the course of the film, we truly get to care about these characters and hope that the two can patch up the holes in their relationship. This is helped heavily by the excellent performances of Michelle Yeoh and Stephanie Hsu, as well as Ke Huy Quan as our protagonist's husband. All of them bring a humanity behind all the absurdity. It also helps that as bizarre as this movie's sense of humor gets every joke no matter how strange plays a part in moving the plot forward.
Most of all though this movie is very funny, a lot of fun to watch and is surprisingly touching.
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