TL;DR – Charming, awkward, delightful, weird, and a hell of a good time.
Score – 4 out of 5 stars
Post-Credit Scene – Stay for the mid-credit song
Review –
Well, Netflix is currently creating a niche for itself with the romantic comedy
genre and today we get to look at another entry into this lineup. However,
while some might feel that this is the service limiting itself, I don’t, especially
when we get gems like this. Today we look at a film that completely knows what
it wants to be, and how best to use their main leads to achieve that as we dive
into the world of garage bands and upmarket transcendent Asian restaurants.
So to set the scene, we open in on Sasha (Miya Cech) who lives with her parents
in San Francisco but often spends time alone because her parents work for long
hours at their shop. However, Sasha is not really alone because her best friend
Marcus (Emerson Min) lives next door and his parents Harry (James Saito) and
Judy (Susan Park) teach Sasha about cooking and the joy of using scissors for
everything (seriously scissors are an amazing tool in the kitchen). For years
they were best friends until one fateful day when Sasha (Ali Wong) and Marcus (Randall
Park) became a bit more than friends and then it all fell apart. Fifteen years
later, they are both in completely different places in their lives and in different
relationships when their old friend and Sasha’s business partner, Veronica (Michelle
Buteau) puts them on a collision course with each other.
