How the Lack of Love Affects Two Men (DVD) (Special Edition) (Korea Version) DVD Region 3

Baek Yoon Shik | Bong Tae Gyu

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Kevin Kennedy
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August 30, 2008

How a very funny movie affects me! Customer Review Rated Bad 10 - 10 out of 10

"How the Lack of Love Affects Two Men" is a wonderfully hilarious dark comedy about a father and son competing for the affection of their new downstairs tenant, Mimi (Lee Hye-young). When Mimi arrives on the seen, her hip-swinging walk and low-cut dresses draw the drooling attention of every male in the neighborhood. Dad Cheol Dong (Baek Yoon Shik) and son Dong Hyun (Bong Tae Gyu) first set about fencing off their new love interest from outsiders, then seek to claim her for themselves. The rivalry between father and son escalates until they are taking truly sadistic (and funny) steps to defeat the other. What sets this film apart from the run of the mill bawdy slapstick comedy is the deadpan, Buster Keaton-ish presence of the great Baek Yoon Shik. This is a perfect marriage of quirky actor and even quirkier character! Very highly recommended.

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March 11, 2008

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Wooing with a Tee! Customer Review Rated Bad 8 - 8 out of 10

Although the Rolling Stones song constantly refrains that "You can't always get what you want", father and son combo team extraordinary here, Cheol Dong and Dong Hyun, certainly go down fighting passionately in trying and get what they need, by getting a woman into their lives. Never as the lack of love by two men been so expressed, as each try to win the heart of Mimi, the possible object and provider of what lacks in their lives. And what better than to have two brilliant actors here, performing as these two eccentric love strucks. With Tae Gyu Bong playing the son role here as Dong Hyun, you're assured a guaranteed spirit lift by his brilliantly timed comic humor, and the mix of his additionally charming naivety and oddball charisma of his characters, making it a sure fire way to have a bit of laugh when Tae Gyu is around - and he certainly doesn't fail to amuse here. He looks funny, he is funny and is brilliant at what he does - and he's a nice guy too! Along with Yoon Shik Beak as his father Cheol Dong, you get one crazy and madcap double act. Although this film isn't a classic comedy, you certainly get a large dollop of daft eccentricity and visually referenced humor to look out for. Yes, even Tae Bong climbing though a window "Sadako" style (instead of a telly) is in this, as he sees his father getting the better of him in their 'battle' to woo Mimi. Another extroverted aspect of this film is Dong Hyun's array of tee shirts he keeps appearing in. In fact, you could have an on-line competition with this film, to see how many different tees you can spot Tae Gyu wearing. If Cheol Dong couldn't get the best things in life for his son, he certainly has a good collection of stylish tees (and isn't lacking in those). The only thing he doesn't get, though, is Mimi additionally wearing a tee shirt with "Come and Get It" printed on the front - but he cannot have everything.

Initially, when I first heard about this film, I expected it to have quite a fair dose of heavy pathos, concerning the fact that this is all about two men (father and son) lacking the love of female company of their own - and the probable despair it could have contended by this. But this isn't about sad and depressing men (well, not exactly, anyway) with a melodramatic music score and suicidal 'I can't take anymore, cuz I haven't got a woman in my life!' finale. No, the lemmings can fear no competition here, as these two are far too focused on being hoist by their perturb to worry about that fatal emotion - and this film is far more of an escaped straight jacket job than that! In fact, this is about as serious as a wacky pair of flashing underpants to grace any form of pathos, when the crash, bang, whollop atmos going on with father and son constantly trying to thwart and out wit each other, to win the flesh (I mean heart) of fair and sweet Mimi. Love isn't an easy thing, is it?

The opening sequence is a very funny, too, with Mimi walking along the town's street and all the local men dropping their jaws, cars, tyres and falling over themselves at the sight of this heavenly maiden entering their town. She then seeks lodgings with Cheol Dong and Dong Hyun, so that she can open a shop of her own, and considering that Cheol Dong is also a prized business man in his own right (albeit it that its related to toilet rolls), produces the opportunity for him to help get Mimi under way with her own shop. Not that her business plan is priority one, when Cheol Dong decides on a new wife. But Cheol Dong isn't the only love starved man around, and by the fact that his competition is as close as his own flesh and blood Dong Hyun - who also has additional eye popping sessions at Mimi - isn't going to find his wooing easy. Mimi doesn't realize what she is in for, either, when both father and son steadfastly vie for her attentions, going to extreme lengths in exercising their affections to win her heart. Although straight away they are more interested in Mimi's swinging from side to side bottom, than her heart. And as Mimi trips down some steps, and the two love strucks move quickly to save her fall, their hands lurch straight for her......well, you can probably imagine.

All of this movie is a cartoon style of visual comedy and madcap humor (and even the prelude opening is a 3D generated animation sequence), with almost Three Stooges type nuttiness in what father and son attempt to do to get the other out of the way, to be with Mimi. Dong Hyun at one stage ties his father to his bed mattress with a leather strap to keep him trapped (bless), and Cheol Dong likewise seals his son in a strapped up bed bag (so touching), and even both have a boxing ring on top of their living quarters, to fight it all out over the woman of their (wet) dreams. Mimi is also,at first, all bemused by it all, and only wants to have help opening her shop. But bulging eyes and groping hands aside, Mimi finds herself constantly between the fisty cuffs and bonkers attentions of these two lacking in love men. Not only them either, as the local male town folk (who dropped nearly everything when Mimi first entered the town), also find Mimi an attractive addition, and the answer to their prayers. At one point, there are more men taking Mimi to task, than Dong Hyun as tee shirts.

I found a lot of this film to be very funny and wacky, and director Seong Hoon Kim doesn't fail to entertain here. It all ends up okay after the wash too, (no not Dong Hyun's tee shirts) and turns out to be a worthwhile cuddly and zany comedy, to recommend for a fun night in with the pop corn. Hopefully, if you're a guy, too, and feel lacking in the love of a good woman, these two eccentrics of needful feminine beauty, are sure to get you doing absolutely nothing of the sort like this to woe (I mean woo) the lady of your dreams. Well, not unless you have at least 50 different tee shirts. Another good comedy this! And, hey..see how many tees of Tae Gyu Bong you can spot!

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Rhoda
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September 10, 2007

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Funny!!! Customer Review Rated Bad 7 - 7 out of 10

This is one movie that will make you laugh until the end. Its the story of a father and son who is trying to get the attention of one woman.

In the end, Bong Tae Gyu helped in fixing the relationship with his father.

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