baby & me 아기와 나 [movie]

cutest – baby – ever.

this is an odd cookie. I thought It would be better than the sh*tty review I read of it so I gave it a chance. I like this film. it is cute and funny and it surprised me.

jang geunsuk (you’re beautiful) plays joonsoo, a rebellious rich kid who fights and doesn’t go to school when he doesn’t feel like it. getting expelled looms ever closer on the cards so his parents decide to bugger off and leave him to fend for himself.

just at that time he is landed with a baby with a note attached explaining that he is a young father and must look after his son as the mother can no longer cope.

weirdo girl byeol kim, played by kim byul (fly high), who had taken a liking to joonsoo, helps him out where she can. being one of nine siblings she has enough knowledge of babies to help joonsoo in his most infant-ignorant moments. though, when she is not around he tends to really get into trouble. my favourite idiot moment has to be him trying to put the baby in his school locker. genius.

this kid, han wooram (played by mason mun and voiced by park myeongsu) is the cutest baby, but it takes joonsoo a good few disasters and a fair few attempts at abandoning him to start to feel an attachment to his little bundle of hardwork.

it sounds like a pretty boring premise for a film when it is explained like this but it is quirky and interesting, geunsuk is very funny and boy can he cry on cue. kim byul is just adoooorable. in a big way. she kind of reminds me of lim soojung in im a cyborg, she has that bonkers away with the fairies stare, as if you could really hear the cogs whirring in her head when she thinks. and she has chicken pajamas. I want chicken pajamas. **as my mum pointed out this morning i spelt pajamas the japanese way not the english way. im not changing it though**  ...

im not really sure why we can hear the baby’s thoughts, and why the voice is not a baby’s voice... im not really sure what the point of it was but still, that baby is so damn cute - SO damn cute, that it did work having narrated thoughts to accompany those phenomenal facial expressions.

you know what, I think geunsuk is a funny guy, and easy to watch. there are some people say who he’s just a pretty boy but im really not of the opinion that he gets cast due to that, I think there is a substantial reason he’s so well liked.

im going to check out the movie fly high that kim byul was in with kim bum now as I just want to see her in something else.

and I seriously want those chicken pajamas.

preferably with her in them.

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you're beautiful 미남이시네요 [series]

can i have jeremy as a pet please? he'd get on with pet taguchi too dont you think?

ok, i really dont know where to start. lets go with a cast list.

that will help.

A.N JELL:

hwang taekyung - jang geunsuk (mary stayed out all night, beethoven virus)

go minam - park shinhye (hayate the combat butler, heartstrings)

kang shinwoo -jung yonghwa CN Blue [band], heartstrings)

jeremy - lee hongki (F.T Island [band], muscle girl)

others:

yoo heyi - uee

manager ma - kim inkwon

mr kim - choi ran

mo hwaran - kim sungryung

president ahn - jung chan

so i obviously watched this because i have a (minor but growing) fixation with hongki's teeth. i dont know why, but there it is. 

love that mental little munchkin.

when i started this drama i did have some fears during the first two episodes that it was a cheapo version of coffee prince but it really does become its own animal later on.

so on to the plot then i guess.

a nun, twin of some dude who is being signed to a big shot band but off in some hospital somewhere, is asked to fill in for her brother and sign said contract in his place while he is indisposed.

dressed up like a boy she plays his part but it goes on for far longer than anticipated.

gradually the band and other linked people come to find out of her real identity through various stupid accidents and ridiculous going ons, and there are a whole heap of love triangle type epic disasters that start to form.

i have to say, however side tracked by geunsuk's hysterical pout and yonghwa's increasingly stalker like affections, hongki still made this drama for me. 

never failing to have me in stitches 

(other than when he had me in tears - i missed a whole chunk of what happened  cos i was too busy sniffling) 

and as a side point to my former mocking self, he was called jeremy in gumiho because their band A.N.JELL made a cameo appearance, so it was the characters from this in that. It all makes sense now. 

so, the main character, played by shinhye, go minam - well, i wasnt sure i liked her. at first i didnt really have much context for her and kept thinking maybe i should have watched this before coffee prince, but - i really need to stress this - she is wonderful. im glad i gave this a fair chance. yes, she is annoying, yes the way she pouts as she talks is f*cking irritating but she is kinda meant to be like that, she is childlike and dense.

this girl ^  was the great little miss evil sh*t head yoo heyi. the same facial expressions as park soojin in my girlfriend is a gumiho, she wants to be hwang taekyung's girl and puts a constant spanner in the works, pretending to be little miss sweet to the world while really being a jumped up pr*ck of a girl.

most of the characters are really quite a flawed bunch of idiots. theyre all a bit of a mess. but it works. it has that kind of madcap sense of stupidity and humour that korean dramas flaunt so well.

the pouting became intolerably funny after a while. i thought i wouldnt be able to stand another but they just kept coming. geunsuk became funnier and funnier with each episode and i wasnt really expecting the comedy to come from him.

seriously he pouts more than Ikuta Toma in Maou

looking back at this drama it was definately another one i will enjoy watching again years later. 

i wanted to watch this as muscle girl (hongki) and heartstrings (yonghwa, shinhye) are both airing at the moment and i wanted to get on with those two shows. seen as i still hadnt gotten around to finishing this i thought i should crack on with it first.

i have seen funnier dramas. i have invested more emotion and been taken through more challenging story lines. but this series is by no means even average in my affections. i did definately love it and am completely happy with the fix of smiley hongki-teeth it allowed me to have. aish he really is so funny. the mix of the 3 guys and shinhye worked so well. 

it was a great drama. it will definately have a safe spot in my memory, and yes i went straight onto ebay and bought the stickers and sh*t that go with it, and am kinda tempted to get some of the other stuff i saw but i must resist! i like the pig-rabbit merch though. seriously. how long can i hold off before i buy that sh*t?

she is seriously so cute. im so happy she is in heartstings. cant wait.

i dont really know what else to say about this drama so have some videos.

video: funny cut from ep14

[jeremy reading fan fic about the band]

i put some subs on there so you knew what the hell they were saying.

video: the cast dressed as SNSD and dancing to genie

hongki as jessica - i nearly died laughing

ANJELL being d*cks some more...

hongki just being a randomly awesome moron

i love that he tweeted this vid saying: 완전웃겨 (fully funny) on twitter
he knows he's a moron.



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