Ugh... I have to agree. This movie sounds terrible already. Also the fact that this scenario has been done to death. Such a pity because she's an amazing actress...

There is one thing they could do to make the movie interesting to me.

If the guy was an adopted, Korean American.

That would definitely add more depth to the story. Because not only is he going back to meet her parents but also to discover his roots.

(And in true k-drama fashion, they could have a subplot where he thinks that his birth mother---or father---might be one of his fiance's parents :) )

John Woo hasn't made a good film in a long time.
I don't know why Kang hye-jung got her mouth fixed. She had that unique look which would have been great for an international career. She could have played Asian, French, Italian, south amercan ....Now she looks so generic. Just a pretty Asian girl.
She was the best thing in Oldboy especially the last scene when she is hugging her father and says....I love you. Very powerful.

This it totally unrelated to this post.. but do you have Solbi's Cute Love?

How disappointing that Hollywood has to portray Asians once again as the oh so oriental foreigners who speak funny and eat stinky food.

And I'm just disturbed with the overall fetish-cization of an Asian woman.

I WHOLEHEARTEDLY agree that this will be much more interesting if we had a Korean adoptee for the husband.

But ya know Hollywood... they think it will never make money if not given to a B-list white actor.

ouchhhh... i hope this movie proves all of us wrong.

the plot sounds so stereotypical but i'll be watching it cuz it's about asians. i'm such a fob!

oh man, this does make song hye-kyo's american crossover sound good...wait, it's called FETISH, in an asian beaut + "gnarly" white man pairing to boot!

I COMPLETELY agree that the male lead should be an adopted korean-american, but I doubt that Hollywood would like an Asian actor that didn't fit all the stereotypes that Americans put on us.
Honestly, sometimes, watching all these hilarious stereotypes being acted out can be really funny...if it's only once and a while. I don't think I could stand TWO WHOLE HOURS of Asian stereotyping. Ugh.

They need to add the chopok element.....

오머나... *shakes head in dismay and walks away*

well, perhaps it's so hard to get into Hollywood that she'll take on any role, even though it may sound so stereotypical movie

I have to agree that one of the few things that may have made this film something that I would have actually gone and watched is if they'd given the guy a Korean or Asian background. Something, anything to give the plot at little bit of meat.

Why not have the guy be some redneck who is too stupid to live. Stereotypes and paradies galore! Oh the hilarity!

i almost wished that the fiance really loved the korean country once he came in contact with it, while kang hyejung's character dislikes her native roots

it'd be a nice role reversal that kind of rings true to many people who dont really like their cultural roots

I dunno I wouldn't be so quick to write this one off. It's easy to go off into crappy borderline racist movie but it could also show our cultural differences with tact and delicacy. "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" is great and funny, but I think we take for granted that it's realistic because a Greek woman, Nia Vardalos, wrote it and directed it based on her experiences.

I'm a bit wary of this film too but I'm much more optimistic. I feel like everyone one assumes that all Americans see all other cultures as one dimensional and can't write about them any other way. BUT then again, that's the history that Hollywood has created. But then again (again), I don't want to doubt this writer because I love Kang Hye Jung. But then again (again, again) the other writer wrote that bad movie Bringing down the house.

@ asianromance: I don't think they need to assume anything since they're the ones writing the script, they can just create it.

@ most everyone else: I don't think making the groom a Korean American adoptee would do anything but add a superficial story line and then give us some "My Father" type crap.

It seems things kind of started going downhill for her after that surgery...

I thought it was called wedding palace?!

asianromance: I don't think I've seen Asian-Americans portrayed accurately and/or diversified-ly (treated as an individual, as opposed to a label) in Hollywood often. There ARE exceptions, of course. But a romance between a 1.5/2nd/3rd generation Asian-American and an American-whose-ancestors-immigrated-to-U.S.-WAY-WAY-back-when is probably a foreign concept to mainstream Hollywood. Or rather, they're afraid to approach it or even have an idea on how to go about portraying it, which is probably the more likely explanation. I like your idea though.

jenjen: There was a TV show that portrayed an interracial couple (characters: Morgan Grimes and Anna Wu) along those lines from "Chuck," with the scenario of Morgan meeting Anna's parents.

No No!! I just read that it is called Wedding Palace and is not with CJ Ent. thats a different movie but everyone got confused. Its with Brian Tee's (fast and the furious) production compnay TU or tee-yoo, not sure.

Well, this is 1 year later but I might just find this more interesting---it features an Asian American cast!!! :)

Like Kim mentioned, it's going to star Brian Tee and it's called Wedding Palace.

Pressured to get married by family and friends before his 30th birthday to ward off an ancient family wedding curse, 29 year-old advertising executive Jason Kim finds the women of his dreams in cyberspace 9000 miles away in Seoul, Korea. Complications arise when his bride to be arrives in Los Angeles for the first time.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1280725/

I will watch this movie ONLY if both the bride and the groom are Koreans/Asians. I am so disgusted with the unnatural pairing of AF/WM that I actually stopped watching Hawaii 5-0 after the female Asian cop had a love affair with some white guy. That pairing is unnatural and disgusting. Stop it, already.