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Venus And Mars (DVD) (Korea Version) DVD Region 3

Sol Kyung Gu (Actor) | Kim Tae Hee (Actor) | Han Ji Seung (Director)
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Venus And Mars (DVD) (Korea Version)
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Kevin Kennedy
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August 7, 2009
Brilliant black comedy of love gone very wrong Customer Review Rated Bad 10 - 10 out of 10
Director Han Ji-Seung had just wrapped his work on the TV series "Alone in Love", a beautifully melancholy meditation on a divorced couple, when he wrote and helmed "Venus and Mars", an over-the-top, hair-raisingly wild black comedy about ... a divorced couple. It's as if director Han used "Venus and Mars" to blow off the steam he had repressed during the production of "Alone in Love" or as if "Venus and Mars" is an inverted funhouse mirror image of "Alone in Love".

"Venus and Mars" stars Sol Kyung Gu as Sang Min, an obsessive compulsive entymology professor who seems to care more for his pet beetle than he ever did for his wife, and the lovely Kim Tae Hee as Jin Ah, a talented but hot-headed glassblower who became so fed up with Sang Min's obsessiveness that her brain short-circuits whenever she thinks of him. Driven by his obsession with orderliness, Sang Min demanded that the couple split all of their possessions equally when they divorced. That plan included giving Jin Ah "half" of their clock, i.e., the pendulum. Now the sight of the pendulum-less clock drives Sang Min mad, so he demands that Jin Ah return the missing clock piece. Jin Ah refuses and this absurd disagreement sparks an all-out war.

A black comedy demands that the actors take their peculiar compulsions very seriously and Sol Kyung Gu and Kim Tae Hee do that with elan, throwing themselves into their quirky characters with real ferocity. The film features a wonderful supporting cast of equally wild characters, with Seo Tae Hwa as a cow-loving animal science professor a particular stand-out. I'm not sure that the movie ever makes a convincing case for what might have drawn this oddball couple together in the first place, but that omission hardly matters as the comic carnage piles ever higher, leading to an absolutely brilliant ending. "Venus and Mars" is a hoot and I recommend it very highly.
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Rhoda
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June 18, 2008

This customer review refers to Venus And Mars (DVD) (DTS) (Limited Edition) (Korea Version)
Great comedy Customer Review Rated Bad 9 - 9 out of 10
I actually like the movie. Didn't realized that they would blend so well in this film. This film will give you a lot of twist and turns that will make you laugh and love them. The ending is good too. What a laugh!!
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numinair
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April 14, 2008

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 V & M War Customer Review Rated Bad 8 - 8 out of 10
When this film begins - you just know as Jin Ah and Sang Min make a big exhibition of themselves in melodramatic overkill fashion in the middle of a busy shopping mall (also having people around photo snapping them in mid emotion), conceding reluctantly to their necessary divorce decision, that this is going to be one hell of a Korean screwball comic strip rom-com - never to forget. And indeedy it is, with a full caricature set of out-of-their-gourd and battle ready divorcees, who shout, car chase, brawl, fight, scare off the local bird life, and basically drive each other crazy by Jin Ah's and Sang Min's loving and loathing of each other. They argue a lot, generally about nothing more than intricately trivial details about the other, that drives them both mad. Both actually love each other to bits, though (which....may be a bit difficult to convince yourself here of, as the film progresses) and don't really want to be apart. But due to their constant frustrations, their hotheadedness and negative knee jerk reactions with each other - end up divorcing before they each go insane, or worse, kill each other. After their divorce and splitting all of their belongings, Sang Min then gets a bee in his bonnet about his prized possession of an antique clock that he is left with, but minus its swinging pendulum. This is due to Jin Ah keeping the pendulum concerning both their legal entitlements of splitting all the belongings and possessions. But this pendulum becomes the catalyst of the 'couple war' of the movie, as Sang Min won't rest until he gets it back from Jin Ah. So, he arranges to meet her again after the divorce to beseech her (in a Bull in a China shop sort of way) to get it back. And like a pendulum swing, the moods of Sang Min and Jin Ah, equally swing from high explosive velocity shoutiness, to full laden car wars antics and over the top surreal satire - mainly over this 'little old pendulum' problem. (Yes, it is a romance and there is a car chase in it, honestly. I'm not getting mixed up with "Seven Days"). Gosh! Thank God Jin Ah didn't take the two clock face fingers, too!

So, as you may guess, this isn't your usual melodrama teary romance thingy - where you need a box of tissues. No, you get a full throttle screwball comedy and loud volumed battle of the ex's, with these two, so you may need some ear muffs instead. "Venus and Mars" is certainly a film NOT to take too seriously. Both Jin Ah and Sang Min are over fueled erratically charged people (that usually end up on day time TV chat shows about divorcees), and it never takes them very long before they are at other's throats (not always literally though), electrifying the air by their ear splitting arguments, that would be a strong test for meditative Buddhist monks, if they unfortunately encountered this thunderhead of a couple. Jin Ah and Sang Min constantly blame each other for their problems. Jin Ah blaming Sang Min for making her the way she is by becoming highly volatile, and Sang Min is quick to re-act shoutingly when Min Ah has done something that frustrates him. Like breaking one of his glass containers where he keeps exotic insects in. Additionally to that, one of Jin Ah's friends, who also as husband trouble and identifies with Jin Ah's circumstances (and shows a wide eyed psycho killer savagery look, at the mere thought of her own husband) stands shoulder to shoulder with Jin Ah, by having a go at Sang Min when he tires to get the clock pendulum back from Jin Ah's house - by setting her two dogs on him. Its all a shouty, battle of the ex's eccentric 111 mins here, and with some additional high action bits (eh? that car chase), you will find that romance as never been so alive and kicking. Pacing to this film is also.....not slow.

Its a very enjoyable movie, mainly as it sends itself up and doesn't try to get all serious at the end. In fact, the begining of "Venus and Mars" is the most melodramtic (and feels like the end of the film, funnily enough) and in the main, is a send up of K-drama tear jerkers. With this in mind, you accept that these two 'romantics' are a madcap and comic strip couple. There are some calmer moments, though, like how JA and SM first met (in a flashback) where Jin Ah is inside a coffe shop and with Sang Min sitting outside, and both similtaneoulsy move their fingers in romantically mirrored fashion around the coffee shop window pain, and pull faces at each other. Little did they realize though then, that after they were married, 'pain' was to be the operative word in their high volume shouty relationship. How they managed to eat meals together when they were married, I don't know. I can only imagine that Jin Ah cooked Sang Min cold shoulder and hot tonge pie quiet often, with eveing meals (and probabley the other way round if ever Sang Min was home chef).

A lot of this film is also visually camp, like with Sang Min's farm hand neighbor who is (supposedly) in love with one of his female cows, who also gets saddened when his beloved cow gets pregnant (eh? yes, I know, but its all explained in the film) and at one point when Sang Min and Jin Ah are sitting together in a coffee shop (this is another shop time, not the one when they are both between the window pain and wandering fingers) and (would you guess) both end up arguing (again), with at one point Jin Ah imagining hitting and thrusting an axe onto Sang Min's head. Nothing like calm, adult ways of discussing their problems. This latter scene, too, is the only reason why this is also an 18 rating. Believe it or not, there is absolutely no sexual references in this film at all. Which is probably a good job for Sang Min, considering Jin Ah's 'imaginary' axe at her ex!

Extras DVD is good and although their isn't any subtitles to these bonuses (unless there were, but JA and SM's constant arguing caused them to fall off the disk), its quite easy to appreciate the visual goings on, and actress Tae Hee Kim seems to have had a fun time making all of this. And she is far sweeter and human than her character part here. I haven't seen Tae Hee in much, unfortunately, apart from "The Promise", but she is one fiercely frightening lady here - which shows her acting is good considering she's absolutely nothing like that! Kyung Sol I also haven't seen in much and so this, too, is the first I've seen him in. He features in classics I have yet to see! So....good, fun and recommended comedy. If you get this DVD, put some ear muffs ready, though, just in case the arguing gets too much!
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MovieCollector
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March 21, 2008

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 Kim Tae Hee is beautiful Customer Review Rated Bad 7 - 7 out of 10
Well, I had the chance to watch this movie and I was a little disappointed in it. For some reason, I felt it was on the slow side. There were funny scenes here and there, but it wasn't that hilarious. Overall, it was an "OK" movie to watch, but don't expect too much from this movie. As always, Kim Tae Hee is gorgeous.
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March 7, 2008

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 HILARIOUS Customer Review Rated Bad 8 - 8 out of 10
LOL this is an amazing movie, I watched it on another website and before I watched it my expectations were that it was going to be lame but I gave it a shot and loved every second of it. This movie really tells the truth about love and hate in a relationship, the movie is full of comedy that will keep you laughing till the end and may even get you to cry at the very end. Good looking cast, must see.
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