He finds a way to help Dong Hyeon avoid getting bullied and in doing so, Pan Soo finds himself also unexpectedly coming across his first love’s path. Later, when Pan Soo’s finally taking over this innocent kid’s body, he finds out that Dong Hyeon is in fact being bullied in school. Due to a fated accident, he swaps bodies with Pan Soo. When he wakes up, Pan Soo finds out that his soul is trapped inside a 17-year-old boy’s body.ĭong Hyeon (Jung Jin Young) is an introverted 17-year-old boy that loves eating. This tough guy, however, unexpectedly meets a freak accident and goes into coma in the hospital. Pan Soo (Park Sung Woong) is both a businessman and son-in-law of a mob boss. This movie had been released in January of 2019 and starts two of my favorite actors from different generations, Park Sung Woong and Jung Jin Young.Ĭheck out some details about the movie and my review below. This post will be solely dedicated to ‘ The Dude in Me‘. The silly thing is I’ve only been watching BTS videos for the past few weeks and I don’t seem to get over it, but maybe that’s understandable…I mean if you yourself–who’s reading this post–is a fan like me.Īnyway, I have a lot of movies lined up for a bit of a review, so I’ll start with an easy watch. I can’t seem to have the strength to write a blog post though I’ve been holding my laptop at least a couple of hours a day. The Dude in Me was screened at LFF on the 9th October.So, lately I’ve been on lazy mode. Edited and scored like a Paul Feig comedy, UK audiences will feel at home in this South Korean take on a popular genre. But there is no denying that The Dude In Me is a lot of fun, albeit the type of fun that overstays its welcome. Pre-judgements are rarely helpful but knowing that a body swap comedy never needs to be two-hours long was mildly prophetic. There are further twists and turns that involve a paternity test, an excessive number of combat scenes and a disturbing potential romance. Trapped in the teenager’s body, Pan-soo unexpectedly reunites with his first love. Where The Dude In Me may begin to lose the audience is in its over-the-top story. The foundations of the body swap comedy are firm. When Pan-soo eventually wakes up, experienced actor Park is able to join the game in good form as the teenager in a middle-aged body. The performance is a solid effort that never distracts from or undermines the screenplay’s humour. Jung does a convincing job of pretending to be Park playing Pan-soo trapped in Dong-hyun’s body. The same was not going to happen here, either. Christopher Nolan wasn’t going to cast Harry Styles in Dunkirk to have him be unrecognisable behind prosthetics or a gas mask. This transformation ought to have been expected. As per expectations, a new Dong-hyun – with a lean torso and defined cheekbones – emerges. In order to do the real Dong-hyun a favour and deal with the bullies at school, Pan-soo decides to participate in a training montage to get his new, chunky body in shape. As he is greeted with a deluge of weight-related quips, he certainly doesn’t look like the heart-throb fans of his music have come to recognise.īut the filmmaking team knew what they were doing when they cast a handsome popstar in the lead role. To physically present the kid, Jung begins the film wearing a fat suit and facial prosthetics. One of Pan-soo’s biggest challenges in Dong-hyun’s body is managing the overweight teen’s ambitious appetite. Whilst Dong-hyun, now within the older man’s body, is trapped in a coma, Pan-soo must try to manage the chaos unfolding in his crime organisation whilst donning a school uniform and being a son to a man he has never met. The mob boss wakes up, but he doesn’t recognise his body, and no one recognises him. So, when Kim Dong-hyun (Jung) falls from a rooftop (a fatal misstep when retrieving a stolen shoe from bullies) he lands directly on top of Pan-soo. Having already performed well at the South Korean box office at the start of the year, The Dude In Me hopes to charm international audiences into seats with the premise of a middle-aged mob boss suddenly finding himself in the body of an introverted, chubby teenager.Ī mysterious restaurateur decides to intervene in gangster Jang Pan-soo’s (Park Sung-woong) life of crime by placing him in the right place at the right time. Lady Gaga has A Star Is Born and Jung Jin-young (member of K-pop boy group B1A4) has The Dude In Me – a flamboyant body swap comedy. 0 LFF ’19 – ‘The Dude In Me’ is Funny but Overstays its Welcome.
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