Thi Mai, rumbo a Vietnam

It's not annover her top comedy but it has its funny moments. It's a sweet movie that tugs at your heartstrings and leaves you feeling good.

I thought the film incredibly touching and the whole cast brilliant . I liked the mixture of characters with their various complexities . The women , a close knit group of friends still had space for more friends in their lives . Will have to watch again with my husband .

As soon to be adoptive parents, this movie is completely unrealistic. The movie portrays adoption in ways that I found difficult to stomach, in particular because adoption in the movie was all about the parents (grandparents) while the needs of the child was played down. If you were looking for a movie about adoption to gain a deeper understanding of it as we were, stay away. If looking for a fun movie, it has its moments, but not massively so.

This movie can't decide whether it's a tragedy or a comedy. Too many tragic moments, and not all of them can be taken lightly. One thing that really bothered me was that for men (for all of them in the film) to do anything good, women had to beg them and beg them and beg them, and cry and beg them.... It was hard to watch. Are men so slow and cowardly and heartless that they can't do anything good without women pushing them really hard to do it? It made me feel distaste for men and pity for women.

This film could have been good, had it focused on being a pure comedy. The funny moments are funny, all the actors are great, the scenery is perfect. Alternatively, this could have been shot as a tragedy, whether with good ending or not, to show the coldness of this bureaucratic world with heartless operatives. But the mix of the too feels unsettling.

I generally enjoy mixing humor with drama but here the comedy felt like it was put in just for the sake of having some jokes blended in. I had high hopes for the movie but where they injected humor it was out of place and distracted from the flow of the story.