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**Mr Morden**

So anyone not seen this rather awesome film?

**Lathe Biosas**

I've had the music inflicted upon me countless times, which has made me flee from the cartoon.

**Mr Morden**

Lathe Biosas wrote:
I've had the music inflicted upon me countless times, which has made me flee from the cartoon.

Love both

Film is great

**Daia T'Nara**

My brain keeps trying to trick me into thinking I can hit the high notes in Golden.

(I cannot.)

**Gitzbitah**

I thought I didn't like K-Pop, and was sure I was not going to enjoy the film- now, half of what I've played for the last 3 weeks of Spotify has been this soundtrack. And everytime my boys get me to watch it again, I get chills every time 'This is What it sounds like' starts up. It is truly more than the sum of its parts.

**BobtheInquisitor**

I was going to watch it with my son, but his grandma beat me to it. Now I have no ~~excuse~~ reason to watch it.

**LordofHats**

They had me at the 'A demon boy band? you think that'll work?' gag.

**trexmeyer**

K-pop is extremely predatory. It's not a comment on the film specifically. Still, I can't handwave an industry that specifically recruits 14-15-year-olds with the promise of fame and then forces them to undergo plastic surgery and public abuse.

**Mr Morden**

trexmeyer wrote:
K-pop is extremely predatory. It's not a comment on the film specifically. Still, I can't handwave an industry that specifically recruits 14-15-year-olds with the promise of fame and then forces them to undergo plastic surgery and public abuse.

That's fair - I will say that the "message" of the film is very positive - besides being a lovely, very funny and even sometimes tear inducing story with really good characters and some really interesting elements of older Korean culture.

They had me at the 'A demon boy band? you think that'll work?' gag.

I was committed from the first plane scene - when they spent as much time sorting their pre-show food as fighting.

**Jadenim**

Lathe Biosas wrote:
I've had the music inflicted upon me countless times, which has made me flee from the cartoon.

Do not flee!

I watched out of curiosity one weekend when I had nothing much on and really enjoyed it. It has just the right blend of heartfelt characters, annoyingly catchy music and a smattering of off-the-wall almost loony toons cartoon humour that elevates it far, far above where it should be.

It ranks up with the Lego Movie and Barbie in my list of “films that should be awful but aren’t and make me smile every time.”

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P.s. love the tiger!

**LunarSol**

Yeah, its really good. I struggle to separate it in my head from KDA (particularly that opening number) but its definitely a winner.

**Flinty**

My daughter has requested it for movie night every week for a couple of months at this point. I am not yet bored of it because the music and animation are so awesome. It also has these wonderfully stupid flourishes, like when they are sneaking about backstage of the comedy show, and when the Saja Boys are running away from them,’one getting a piggyback.

**Mozzamanx**

It's currently my kids favourite film, meaning we have watched it 3 times since release. It's still excellent, no regrets at all.