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Very surprised by all the positive reviews (both critics and movie-goers) of The Wedding Banquet.

My partner and I were very much looking forward to it - but were seriously disappointed.

Various reviewers described the film as hilarious, charming, heartwarming.

We did not see that movie.

It was like spending time - too much time - with neighbors who mostly converse in therapy-speak platitudes, irony-speak chatter and in the case of one of the characters, complain incessantly about their mother.

In addition to the annoying therapy-speak dialogue, the characters were not so interesting in our opinion. Angela's character (Kelly Marie Tran) was especially churlish and unappealing - it was impossible to see why Lee (Lily Gladstone) would have been in a relationship with Angela. For different reasons, it was difficult to see why Chris and Min were together.

The few interesting and thoughtful parts of the movie, in our opinion, were the scenes of Min and his grandmother.

I recall admiring the original Wedding Banquet - will watch it again to see.

Watched at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

I wasn't sure how a remake would work with And Lee's classic queer romantic comedy but color me surprise, the remake does a pretty good job on being creative from it's source material with new energy, humor, and atmosphere. Andrew Ahn is a director I have been keeping up with as his work Spa Night, Driveways and Fire Island have been pretty great and emotional engaging to observe. Here, Ahn's direction on the atmosphere, dialogue, and the character dynamics are pretty good. Being able to capture the emotions, hilarious dynamics, and some of the oddity and funny moments in both heartwarming and somewhat chaotic ways.

With a good presentation, all of the performances are great as many of the cast members are able to provide fun energy, personality and purpose to their characters. Bowen Yang particular stands out at his best. Narrative-wise, I do appreciate some new themes they were able to explore but there are some moments that felt a little uninspired with the concepts and dynamics that Ahn explores. Including how the production feels almost too fake like something from Netflix and some of the structure feels a little strange, which does make some moments a bit distracting and dragging a bit.

But overall, I didn't expect much for this remake but it was surprisingly not too bad and it went beyond the expectations.

The Wedding Banquet is a delightful, heartfelt remake of Ang Lee's 1993 classic that takes a beloved, time-honored premise and refreshes it for a new era. While the original film navigated issues of immigration, identity, and secrecy in a delicate blend of drama and comedy, this film shifts the focus toward relationships and personal growth, exploring the emotional depth of its characters with humor and sincerity.

The film's comedy, though undeniably lighthearted, works largely because the film is brisk, without sacrificing the emotional truth of the characters. The narrative unfolds at a fast pace, each twist and turn propelled by a charming, almost sitcom-like energy.

While the plot may feel predictable at times, and some of the situations bordering on farce, the direction allows the characters to shine through the chaos, striking a balance, using humor to gloss over some of the more contrived plot points, yet never losing sight of the genuine emotional moments at the film's heart.

The blend of comedy and sincerity is where the film truly excels. It never leans too heavily into one side, allowing for moments of deep emotional truth to coexist with the lighthearted absurdity of the characters' increasingly ridiculous plans. When the film slows down, the dialogue crackles with authenticity-especially during the quieter exchanges.

There is, however, a sense that the film could have pushed further into daring or edgier territory. It does not venture into particularly risky or provocative comedic waters. While this makes it a more accessible film for a broader audience, it also feels, at times, a little safe. In the era of modern streaming comedies and edgy narratives, a more bold exploration of the entanglements that ensue might have added another layer of excitement or complexity to the film.

Having been watching movies now for roughly 70 years, I relish finding something completely different from the usual fare. And hopefully also highly entertaining. This one meets those requirements, my wife and I found it unique and highly entertaining.

Also, with so many years of watching over 200 movies a year, I have noticed many times, a movie will start very well, get a bit muddled in the middle, and then doesn't know how to wrap everything up and arrive at a meaningful ending.

This one avoids that pitfall, it ends very nicely, in a very appropriate manner for the various characters and their situations.

The basic situation is this - two couples, one a female-female and the other a male-male, are good friends. In each case there are family impediments that make it hard to be their selves and live their best lives. That is part of the struggle.

Then, one of the guys, a Korean in the states for study, may outlive his visa and may need to return home, unless ... he can get married. But his partner is not ready for marriage.

The title of this movie would not be "Wedding Banquet" if there were no wedding, but what happens is a big diversion from where it was headed.

Anyway, we watched it at home on DVD from our public library. It is thoroughly entertaining with many laughs but also many meaningful adult themes.

I was very much looking forward to this movie and I was not disappointed I was ready to give it seven stars after only watching the first 40 minutes and in my opinion the trailer , as is often the case, would not give one a fair idea of what the true nature of it is. Sure there's plenty of comedy, but it is really a character study of the difficulties encountered in human relationships and it does that with genuine portrayals of those relationships , couples and parent / offspring, the out in the open and the repressed. The acting and story is gripping and I think you will find yourself totally immersed in them and as unlikely as some of the events may seem, the film never struggles in getting them across, comedy , yes but it deals much more with emotions and there are so many satisfying scenes where that is the primary subject.

Seven point nine stars, script acting throughout, not one person outshines the other and equal weight is given to all of them IE well written, I loved it.

Besides the title, this movie only shares 3 themes with the 1993 Oscar-nominated movie: a gay man enters into a green card marriage of convenience, parents (in this case grandmother) flies in from Asia, and someone gets pregnant.

Bowen Yang gets top billing, but he is not the central character. He plays Chris, a gay Asian-American in a 5-year relationship with Min. Min is the sole heir of a Korean conglomerate, and is on his 7th year of a student visa, though he spends his time on his fabric collage art. After turning down his grandmother's offer of a corporate job in the U. S., Min needs to find a way to stay. Min's grandmother knows that he is gay, but is hoping that he will grow out of it. Min's grandfather, however, is sufficiently anti-gay that Min is likely to be disowned if he found out.

Chris and Min live in the garage of Lee and Angela. Lee inherited the Seattle-area house from her father, while Angela deals with her Taiwan-heritage mother (played by Joan Chen), who is overcompensating for earlier abandonment, by being overly supportive. Lee wants to experience pregnancy and have a child, but has just failed in her 2nd attempt at in-vitro fertilization, and is leery of trying for an expensive and final 3rd attempt.

Desperate to stay in the U. S., Min proposes marriage to Chris, who turns him down due to his likelihood of being disowned. Min then proposes to Angela, offering money for Lee's IVF in return. When he tells his grandmother of the pending nuptials, she flies into town, giving them very short notice to "de-gay" the house. But grandma sees thru the scheme, and comes up with her own to satisfy grandpa - a full-blown traditional Korean wedding, with lots of photos.

It is a decent story and well played. However, I am not keen on the borrowed title, the headlining of a secondary character (though Bowen Yang has a brief nude scene), or the logic of their living in the garage. Min has access to a reasonable amount of money, and could have rented their own house or apartment. Even if they wanted to live with their chosen family, there is a guest house (separate building on the property) that could have given the two couples more privacy.

Lee (Lily Gladstone) and Angela Chen (Kelly Marie Tran) are a gay couple struggling with IVF treatment. Their friends are another gay couple, Min (Han Gi-Chan) and Chris (Bowen Yang). Min is the heir to a Korean business conglomerate. His grandmother Ja-Young (Youn Yuh-jung) wants him to clean up his act and join the family business. In desperation, he comes up a crazy scheme to marry Angela in exchange for paying their IVF treatment.

I mostly love this for the actors and the characters. I do wish that they allow Bowen Yang to unleash his flamboyant sensibility. Otherwise, I like all the performances. This is a fun gay-dysfunctional relationships comedy. I'm not sure about a couple of the plot points, but it all works out and this is fun.

Seems to be a decisive movie from other reviews especially those comparing it to the original. I loved the original and studied it at university. This is quite different but modernised and it ends up being really quite lovely. It isn't a farce, and the comedy is more of a smile than a laugh out loud but it's also joyous and playful The acting is superb, it's well paced and it just made me happy. And I also cried a little. I really enjoyed it.

It is never easy to remake a classic but this felt like a morality tale (Ang Lee's bread and butter) brought up to date for 2025.

One of the things they do so well is not to make it preachy or cliched. It's just modern people managing to live across cultures and living their messy complicated lives.

Remember the "Proposal" (2009)? Well this is a sort of derivative of that only here it is two gay couples who decide that a bit of judicious legerdemain might enable one to get a green card and another to fund some fertility treatment. You see, commitment-phobe "Chris" (Bowen Wang) has been with his wealthy Korean boyfriend "Min" (Han Gi-Chan) for years but won't marry him. This irks his partner who also has pressures from his family at home who want to bring him home to work in the family business and marry a nice girl. Meantime, best pal "Lee" (Lily Gladstone) and girlfriend "Angela" (Kelly Marie Tran) are trying to conceive via IVF but are having no luck. It would appear that the solution to both of their problems might lie in a marriage of convenience. Far-fetched? Well the best bit is yet to come as grandma (Youn Yuh-jung) arrives from Seoul determined to find out just what is going on and to protect her grandson from what she clearly suspects is some money-grabbers. It takes her about two minutes to suss things out so now the couples have to pray that she will go along with their scheme, else everything will come crashing down. There are a few funny scenes here, but for the most part if you watch any amount of American gay cinema then you will have seen this all before. Wang offers us very little new here and the plot lurches just a bit too close to the preposterous for me as the underlying pretence of the theme goes from silly to sillier and the characterisations slip effortlessly into multifarious, sometimes quite cringeworthy, stereotypes. I do hope it takes a few quid at the box office, though, because Han Gi-chan could sure use a decent meal!

A remake of Ang Lee's 1993 classic (in some circles!) currently in theaters which doesn't necessarily rework the premise (a gay man agrees to marry a straight woman so she can gain her papers as a means to impress his traditionalist parents) but broaden it w/more characters to middling results. Gay couple SNL's Bowen Yang & Han Gi-chan are besties w/another couple Oscar nominee Lily Gladstone & Kelly Marie Tran who are trying to have a baby but are short raising cash for some invitro sessions. What can be done? Well since G-chan's grandmother, Oscar winner Youn Yuh-jung, is coming to visit w/news to unseat him as a head of her company, the two couples decide to trick Yuh-jung into thinking G-chan is getting married to Tran (Tran will be paid so she can pay her medical bills) which sounds good but in fact turns the players' world upside down as they try to maintain their ruse which becomes a comedy of errors which'll have audiences rolling in their seats but it doesn't since by adding more characters to the mix & making the film now more gay friendly & overt (something the original didn't do since yes the characters happened to be gay but their lives didn't depend on that fact), the end product ends up being both overstuffed & underfed which when viewed through the prism of Lee's version is a shame & a slog to sit through.

I remember seeing the old version but honestly, this is a modern reimagined story with real characters in a world we live in today. I loved this movie and the real people depicted here without forcing the gay storyline to be amusing to make everyone feel comfortable watching it.

Real people with real responsibilities figuring out their lives with mistakes, learning and love.

The people here seem like friends and people we all know. No Birdcage exaggeration. The mom and grandma have their own life traumas that made them who they are but they did not make a big deal out of it.

It's the subtleness we need to pay attention to.

I had all but forgotten about the original 1993 movie until after I saw this one, and watching them back to back really makes you appreciate a brilliant filmmaker like Ang Lee that comes but once in a generation.

Without comparing it to the OG, my initial thought of this remake was that I wouldn't have lasted 20 minutes if it weren't created for audiences like me (millennial, Chinese, green card, marriage, IVF). It has the premise of a romcom but without the comedy, the design of an indie drama without the raw emotional punch except in a few places, and all the insufferable qualities of contemporary mainstream filmmaking.

After watching the original, my main complaint of this film is now...there's no banquet! The OG was brimming with culture, a true banquet made to dazzle, literally and figuratively. It appears filmmaking, like banquets, has become a lost art.

This movie disappoints in so many ways. The fact that this was called a remake, was a terrible idea. This should have not even been called that and should have just been a new movie altogether.

The trailer makes this movie seem like its a well paced comedy that is similar to the first movie, but it's pacing is slow and boring. Like the farewell, it's more heavy than light. Joan Chen, who isn't even a comic, was the funniest of all the other actors in the movie, but the was few and far between. Joan Chen, was excellent.

It's an OK movie, but definitely, not a true comedy and not a remake.

If they were the set the expectations of this movie the right way, it would have been easier to watch.

Kelly Marie Tran should be in the Oscar running for her performance. The acting was well done by all, but her performance shone through for emotionality and authenticity.

I loved that this movie shed a spotlight on chosen family, queer love, and modern day blended family arrangements.

I haven't seen the original version, but would like to see it now.

We need more movies and stories like this from Hollywood especially in light of what's happening in America. No one is going back in the closet and we will continue to support the LGBTQIA community's freedom to love whoever they want. In this movie, Love wins.

It's hard to understand why classic films, such as Ang Lee's 1993 classic, 'The Wedding Banquet' need to be reimagined or updated. More times than not, the second attempts don't even come close to the original. The 2025 version of this film is no exception. First of all, they put a west coast spin on what was a quintessential New York picture. That was the first mistake. Secondly, the actors were lame compared to those in the '93 film. The screenplay and direction were awful as well. This is a film that should never have been remade. When you have a perfect product, such as Ang Lee's masterpiece, don't tamper with perfection. This newer picture does nothing to advance the LGBTQ+ agenda in a positive way, unlike its predecessor which was bold, poignant and a major contribution to our community.

"To thine own self be true" is more than just an oft-used platitude. It's also good advice, given that concocting and pulling off a scheme rooted in artifice is virtually assured to fail. Such is the case when a long-term gay male couple, Chris and Min (Bowen Yang, Han Gi-Chan, respectively), hatches what they believe to be an ingenious plan for carrying out a marriage of convenience involving their lesbian friends, Lee and Angela (Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran, respectively). In essence, Min, a South Korean national from a moneyed background whose US visa is about to expire, agrees to marry Angela so that he can qualify for a green card to stay stateside with Chris. In exchange, Min agrees to pay for the in vitro fertilization treatments that Lee is undergoing to enable her and Angela to have a child. It all sounds reasonable enough until Min's stern grandmother (Youn Yuh-jung), the no-nonsense controller of the family purse strings, who's thought to be unaware of her grandson's sexual orientation, decides to visit Seattle to meet Min's bride-to-be. But can the "couple" convince the aging matriarch that their upcoming betrothal is legitimate? Add to that additional complications involving Chris's reluctance to commit to Min for the long term, Angela's issues with her supportive but overbearing mother (Joan Chen) and questions about Lee's ability to successfully become pregnant, and the situation becomes a hot mess, one that threatens the security of two couples and their collective and individual plans for the future (hence the wisdom behind being truthful to oneself). Writer-director Andrew Ahn's latest feature, loosely based on filmmaker Ang Lee's 1993 release of the same name, is a touching, heartfelt romantic comedy-drama examining the kinds of challenges that same-sex couples often face in their relationships. In light of that, I must admit I was quite surprised by what turned up in the finished product, for several reasons. To begin with, the trailer for this film is very misleading, making the picture look like a campy, screwball LGBTQ+ comedy. Far from it; to be sure, the picture is far more serious and substantive than the preview lets on. But that ultimately works to the film's advantage, giving it an unexpected sense of depth that I definitely was not expecting. And that, in turn, helped to dispel the hesitation I had about wanting to screen this offering in the first place: To be honest, I was expecting to see a predictable, cliché-ridden story in the same vein as Ahn's previous feature, "Fire Island" (2022), which I despised because of all of its trite gay stereotypes, something I was not looking forward to seeing again. I'll freely admit that I was in error about that; thankfully, this film more closely resembles the artistic quality found in another of the director's previous works, "Driveways" (2020). What helps this release succeed so well are the fine performances of its excellent ensemble cast, including a break-out portrayal for Yang, who exhibits a greater range here than he's demonstrated in his previous roles, as well as the consistently solid turns by Chen, Yuh-jung and Gladstone. The film also employs humor in just the right amount, never becoming excessive nor falling prey to shopworn comedic devices, thanks to a capably penned script. "The Wedding Banquet" is truly a refreshingly unexpected treat, one of the better releases in the LGBTQ+ genre to have come out in some time. Indeed, this is one cinematic feast that's well worth your time.

They took a really wonderful movie (the 1993 original), and remade it as another lazy, run of the mill romantic comedy that's trying desperately to be modern and relevant.

Bowen Yang's acting performance was distractingly bad. However, Joan Chen and Lily Gladstone's acting performances were good and solid. But they couldn't save the film.

Overall, I think this one is worth skipping and will probably be forgotten about in 5 years.

I'm glad that this movie will at least bring more attention to the original, and maybe expose people to Ang Lee's earlier work which I personally think is his best.

I know that sometimes we like to see our favorite movies, made a new, with new actors, perhaps more expensive sets, a bigger budget, or just a simple modernization. This movie takes the very obvious idea of a fish out of water, a clash of cultures between the old world and America, a clash of cultures between sexual orientation. Being a very large fan of Ali's first movie, I was anxious to see this movie and went out to see it on opening day. It did not disappoint. The sub plots are significantly different. And they're very well done. It isn't just an updated version of the old movie, (but it's that too...). It's a changing of the sub plots to better reflect today's times. It changes significant characters in the movie, it changes location, it changes financial status, and when all is said and done, it works very well as a standalone movie. If you liked the original movie, you will find this to be slightly familiar. But you will be delighted in also seeing how different it is. I think you'll find this to be a very rewarding movie to watch. The settings are beautiful, the acting is great, and it brings forward a new cast of actors that are not necessarily well known, mixed with faces that you are recognize right away. The only fault I could find in the movie is just too much handheld camera. It's just too jittery.

I know, I know, as a gay man I was supposed to love this movie (just like I did the original). But sad to say, this remake is not very enjoyable.

They get credit for putting new twists on the plot vs. The original, but pacing is waaaaay too slow and it takes forever to get going. Quite honestly, there's very little humor. The first hour drags and is pretty boring, and it's not until the grandmother shows up that things get interesting. The grandmother, in fact, is the most interesting character in the entire movie. Dialogue is mundane and the few funny lines stand out simply because there are so few of them.

With all the talent they had on hand, this could've been so much better.

'The Wedding Banquet' is not a masterpiece, but I enjoyed and loved it. Frankly, LGBT romance does not move me as much as heterosexual romance of the same quality because when I try to put myself in the main character's shoes, the latter is way much easier. However, 'The Wedding Banquet' does a great job of making me fall in love with the characters. Four main characters are introduced properly in the beginning. They have distinctive personalities, and the dynamics of the group is interesting. Even I want to be included in this group.

I especially liked not only Yoon's character but her acting as well. Grandmother gives this feel-good movie meaning and sense. She provides how boomers look at modern day relationships and a traditional, institutional ceremony called marriage. She is confused but tries hard to understand and love her grandson as he is. Yoon's acting is so genuine, delicate, and elegant all at the same time. Brilliant performance.

I went into The Wedding Banquet hoping for a fun and engaging comedy, but unfortunately, I was left disappointed. While the film had an interesting premise, I found most of the characters underwhelming and the story's resolution felt too unrealistic to be satisfying.

The only moments I truly enjoyed were the scenes featuring Min and his grandmother - they brought warmth, humor, and authenticity to the film in a way the others didn't. Their presence was the highlight for me.

Overall, the movie didn't live up to my expectations. It had potential, but it ultimately fell flat due to weak character development and an ending that felt forced.