Friday, September 2, 2011

Hello, Ghost / <헬로우 고스트> 2010

Directed by Kim Yeong-tak / 김영탁
Release date: December 2010

All alone in life, Sang-min (Cha Tae-hyeon) tries to unsuccessfully to commit suicide, only to find himself haunted (and sometimes possessed) by four eccentric ghosts. He must fulfill a wish for each one in order to get rid of them. In the meantime, he meets and falls for a young woman but puzzles her with his strange behavior while “possessed”.

I did not find this comedy amusing. The tone was uneven: the ghosts were, for the most part, over-the-top obnoxious or even hostile for most of the film, then suddenly turned nice when the film reveals who they really are at the end. An annoying (and recurring!) sight gag was of Cha, his mouth and cheeks stuffed with food. My take: D

The first three ghosts come to haunt Sang-min
(Lee Moon-soo, Ko Chang-seok, Jang Young-nam).

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