What Happened to Mr. Cha?

First I watched it at random. Then my sister and I watched. Then my adult son and I watched. We all laughed almost continuously. Aging gracefully is no picnic.

Someone who has to always look good - who always has to be on the top of his game. Who seems unable to poke fun at himself. Who takes himself way too seriously. And someone who falls on his face for exactly that. And then some - but the character development in this and where the story takes us, is quite incredible to say the least.

Yes I am sucker for movies that try and dare to be different and that is exactly what this movie does. I was trying to guess where this was going to go next. Is it flawed? Are some things (if not most) borderline ridiculous? Of course they are. But it is fun to see what they came up with. And the actors are brilliant in selling whatever the script gave them to work with.

If you care about Mr. Cha - and that is more than important to say the least, you are in for a treat. A weird treat, but a treat nonetheless.

I get that image literally means everything for Korean celebrity, but to take it this much even for a (bad) comedy standpoint it just fells absurd.

Other shows and movies have done better at executing this concept... the main vehicle for his self analysis is to wild that I kind of was hoping for the bad outcome to happen, then it would make it bit more entertaining. I think it was smart that the wife only lent her voice to this project. It did have some funny moments but the how it got to that situation then takes me out it.

I really thought that this would be a comedy but I was disappointed when I quickly realised how ridiculous the main character was - valuing his image over his life. And he's not even likable! In fact, I found him insufferable. I started skipping scenes when he yet again refused to be rescued by anyone else apart from his manager. So stupid.