 If Nick chose me, he would lose his family, and if he chose his family, he might spend the rest of his life resenting you. You know, I couldn't decide which one I like more. The title of this movie or the film itself. They're both pretty good. My name is Brandon Keith Avery, and this is just my opinion. Hey, what's going on everyone? Thank you so much for tuning into my Epin Slash review for Crazy Rich Asians. I really do appreciate it. Now Crazy Rich Asians is about some Asians. It's directed by John M. Chu. If you're not too familiar with his work, he did a couple of the Justin Bieber movies. He also did G.I. Joe Retaliation with The Rock, and I'm not a big fan of that. And also now you see me too in a number of the step-up movies from back in the day. So I did not know who directed this going into the movie, but when I saw the name after when they created it, I was like, oh yeah, I know that guy. And what the film is about is two characters. They're a loving couple by the name of Rachel and Nick. They've been dating for about a year, and Nick wants to take things to the next level. He is serious about this girl. He likes her a lot. He loves her a lot, and he wants to introduce his girlfriend Rachel to his parents. But little does Rachel know that Nick's parents and his whole family is rich. And that's not regular rich. They're not new money rich. They are like old school crazy, re-roll empires rich. I mean billions and billions and billions and billions of dollars. It's just freaking insane. Now the first thing that I liked about this movie is just like the sense of culture. You can imagine that you know they're in the States and they have to fly overseas for Rachel to meet Nick's parents. And immediately when you get overseas, you know they go around all parts of Asia, mainly Singapore. And what I just really liked about the movie is the sense of culture that you got when you were going around town over in Singapore and China and just other parts of Asia. I mean it was just beautiful. There was scenery that I've never seen before. I also liked it in the background. You had a soundtrack. It was in Chinese. It was in not Cantonese, but Mandarin. And I had no idea what they were saying, what the lady was saying. But it was beautiful and you know it's not anything that I would say I would buy on soundtrack or whatever. But you know for being in a Chinese language and me still not knowing at all what they're saying at all, I still enjoyed it a good amount. Something else that I really did like about this film is just freaking hilarious. I mean there were some points in this where I was just laughing out loud. One of the supporting characters in this movie is the YouTuber by the name of Aquafina. I'm not too familiar with her work, but she also popped up in the film earlier this year Oceans 8 and she was great in this. But in my opinion she was even greater and crazy rich Asians. There were no forced jokes from her or the rest of the cast at all within the script. She's just like a naturally funny person. And you know she did a great job you know bringing that to the front of the screen just you know to make you laugh out loud over and over and over again. And it's just like I said just not her just the entire film is just very very funny. You know it's kind of difficult not to like. There's really nothing to complain about other than just a kind of few little nitpicks here and there. For example there is a subplot or a side story with Nick's I guess his sister-in-law and it just had nothing to do with the rest of the film. I mean I was kind of waiting for it to circle back around and connect to the main cast but it just never did that and kind of came across as filler. And that just kind of seemed unnecessary because the film is two hours like right at two hours and if you cut these scenes out you know it could have been cut down to about an hour and 50 minutes maybe an hour or 45 minutes. You know I'm not saying that the movie is too long but when you are making a film you know I imagine that you'll want it to be as short as possible you know because most people do like short movies. Like also just something interesting to me is this film is 100% you know an Asian cast. There's not like one black person, one white person, one Hispanic person in the whole entire. No actually I was wrong though there is. At the very beginning there's a couple of white people sprinkled in at the very beginning and not that that matters to me but I you know I just had to bring it up because I kind of feel silly for saying this what I'm about to say but I'm just going to be honest with you. This is the first movie that I've seen in my entire life with a predominantly Asian cast that wasn't a martial arts film. I mean that's just what it is. Not my fault but I mean that's just what it is. I'm a big martial arts fan. I you know downstairs I have two shelf cases of nothing but you know Asian form martial arts films and things like that you know where there is from you know India or Korea or Chinese, Japan you know whatever and for example you know you have Michelle Yeo in this film. She's Nick's mother and she's kind of like the leader of everything and I'm a big fan of her you know Crouching Tiger hitting Dragon in this film in that film and she's a great martial artist you know but it was just kind of a breath of fresh air just to kind of see you know a predominantly Asian film and get a sense of their culture and not have to do with anything with martial arts and you know the Asians in this movie were pretty cool not the ones that beat us in the beauty supply store hit us with brooms over a five dollar eyebrow job but the ones in this movie you know I thought that was great I was left from my butt off and you know just something that really just stood out to me was Michelle Yeo's performance I'm not saying that it's Oscar-worthy or anything like that but you got a good parallel between American culture and their culture over there in China or Singapore while over in America you know we're driven to go off of our passion and follow our dreams and things like that but over there to Michelle Yeo's character she just finds that absolutely ridiculous and has a completely different philosophy I don't want to tell you that here because it's worth you viewing in the movie but even though it kind of made me turn my head like this when she was putting her putting her point across at the same time I do respect her point of view and kind of understand where she's coming from and the sacrifice that she made for herself and her family to strive you know in this world that we live in today me as a black man you know we deal with racism and there's like a little sprinkle of racism in this movie and I could relate to that and I just think you know it's ridiculous and you know we need to rid of that in our areas of activity but that's just a small part of the film but it is something that stood out to me I really did enjoy this film it's something that I can watch over and over and over again but at the same time I don't necessarily know that if I will buy it unless I just have money to blow if I had to rate crazy rich Asians out of a 1 out of 10 I would give it an 8.5 out of 10 yes an 8.5 out of 10 but guys that's just my opinion have you seen crazy rich Asians or do you want to see it have I turned you on have I turned you off do you agree with me or do you disagree with me let me know down in the comment section below let's get this conversation going and keep it flowing and I almost forgot about this just you know when I checked out a couple of other reviews and I was talking to somebody on Facebook you know who you are in the inbox and they were just saying like you know hey you know the movie is good but it kind of has some of those repeated romantic comedy tropes that we see over and over again I don't necessarily agree with that up until like the very end the film did kind of have that predictable ending that I just wasn't feeling that much I'm like okay guys you know you kind of nearly had an original film to me in a sense but in the end you did kind of go to those romantic comedy tropes but it's not that big a deal um if you like this video go ahead and give me a thumbs up and if you don't that's fine but you can still subscribe to my channel you can also look me up on social media Facebook Instagram and Twitter all that good stuff it's right there at the bottom of the screen and I made it very easy by providing links to all that good stuff down in the description box below but guys I just want to thank you again for tuning in to my pan slash review of crazy rich Asians and before you go don't forget that my name is brandy Keith Avery and that's just my pan peace