Sep
2
2007
My Tutor Friend 2
Posted by luna6 15 Comments
Movie : My Tutor Friend II / Donggabnaegi gwawoehagi II
Release Date : April 19, 2007
Country : South Korea
Director : Ho-jung Kim, Gil-woong Ji
Starring : Cheong-a Lee, Ki-woong Park
Runtime : 125 Min.
Editor Rating : 3.5
Users Rating: 8.44 
(41 votes)
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Plot Synopsis : Junko arrives in Korea as an exchange student and to learn the Korean language. She stays at a guest house run by a friendly guy by the name of Ha-Ryong. Ha-Ryong also has a son named Jungman that is Junko’s age and attends the same university. Junko offers to pay Ha-Ryong if her son would teach her Korean and Ha-Ryong agrees eagerly. Problem is that Jung-Man wants nothing to do with Junko nor waste his time teaching Korean. Unfotunately for Jungman he has spent a lot of money on his father’s credit card and has no way to pay him back….except by tutoring Junko.
Movie Review : “My Tutor Friend 2″ has the flavor of a poorly prepared bowl of Champong noodles – just a whole lot of cliche elements from past K Romance/Comedies thrown together to make one big mess. If you are a fan of original 2003 “My Tutor Friend” (a movie that didn’t necessarily need to be remade) don’t expect much of a continuation from that story. As with another recent Korean sequel, “My Wife Is A Gangster 3″, “My Tutor Friend 2″ is a sequel by name alone.
In “My Tutor Friend 2″ you have an entirely new set of actors & characters. The similarities between the original would be tutoring lessons (this time around the boy teaches the girl) and the male lead being a good fighter (this time around the male is an amateur boxer). The story itself centers around Japanese Junko (played by Cheong-a Lee) attending a Korean University but requiring lessons in the Korean language. She stays at a guest house and manages to get the owner’s son Jung-Man to teach her Korean. Unfortunately Jung-Man (played by Gi-Woong Park) wants nothing to do with Junko nor waste his time teaching her Korean. From there an assortment of bad jokes, seen it before moments and overly melodramatic turns of events come at you in waves. Long waves that lasted for a way too long 125 minutes.
The one aspect of “My Tutor Friend 2″ that did get it right was casting Cheong-a Lee and Gi-woong Park in the lead roles. They both had camera friendly appearances and were appealing to watch – at least for the first 15 minutes. Unfortunately the rest of the film was pure fluff and no matter how cute the lead characters were if the story is dumb so is the movie. Example being when Jung-Man continuously taught Junko naughty slang words instead of the actual Korean phrases she asked for. The first time around it was kind of amusing, but by the second or third time the joke got old. The sub-plot about Jung-Man’s amateur boxing career came out of the blue and let’s just say the boxing scenes weren’t “Crying Fist” material, nor even “Miracle on 1st Street” material. Cheesy hospital bed scenes were thrown in for more bad drama and the soundtrack was pure cheese. Annoying (overly cute) western actors were thrown in for more ill advised attempts at humor.
Given the mind numbing amount of drivel that was dished out I managed to entertain myself by picking out recognizable backdrops in the film (like the Inchon Airport, the City Hall area of Seoul, and the shopping mall in Insadong) rather than paying close attention to the film. Also the kimbop that Jung-Man’s father made and the udon soup that Junko’s father made both looked mighty good. Unfortunately that had little to do with the movie itself.
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Cast:
Cheong-a Lee – Junko
Ki-woong Park – Jung-manYoung-ha Lee
Young-sam Yun
Young-lan Jang
Julian
Il-Hwa Cho
If you like this movie you may enjoy : Please Teach Me English, Miracle On 1st Street.
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Comments
15 Comments so far
well that is just your opinion about this movie being bad because A LOT like it expecially me -_- if you havent noticed every korean drama is cliche but it has different things in their that make it original and fun to watch
Junko so sweet!Jung-MAn handsome+charming!
thank you!!! i like this movie
i like this movie, i like him cause even he is cute i like his neck when he rotate it so what ever
it’s nice (!)
i actually found it really good.
can tell me what name song from junk man handphone ringtone? bcoz that song its really funny, please tell me, i really need the song
it was…………………………………………………fantastic It was so beautiful!!!! i hope it can reach the filipino people here.
Well actually for me I like this more than the tutor friend 1.. Its just that the part 1 was that great because of the actors.. But to me this is really different from the actual one.. I like this more because the story is more refreshing unlike the first one, its exaggerated.. its unrealistic..
@ aiko
Everyone can have his or hers opinion.
i love this movie, the lead actor (jung-man) is a real hottie.. cute movie ^_^
i like this movie very much
shut up rico!
I think that this movie was absolutely humorous, even though the sequel didnt make any sense when you compare it to My Tutor Friend. I think that Junko and Jung-man did an outstanding job =]. Overall, I’d give it around (between) 3 to 4 stars. I’d love to watch another sequel to this (if possible)
what’s the title of the song where junko and jong man was drinking?? please tell me..thanks..
I thought the cast were terrible (overacting) especially the male lead, and too bad they called it my tutor friend 2, since it hasd got nothing to do with the first one..
And while part 1 was higly enjoyable, this one isnt at all…and its also 2 hours long while 90 minutes would have been more then enough wasted time…