We live in times of abundance, even when it comes to entertainment. The choice of books, video games, films and series is overwhelming. With that “problem”, the feeling of a shared experience has largely disappeared. It occasionally happens with big releases like a Marvel movie or something like Game of Thrones, but the chance that when you’ve seen a movie others have already seen the same title is small. Especially when such a film has not appeared in the cinema. That is also the case with the Netflix romcom Always Be My Maybe. A title that may be promoted temporarily through the service, but one which you may add to the long list that you probably already have, but which you will never get back to. Yet this is one that you should actually watch immediately when you are looking for a light-hearted film with lots of humor.
Sasha Tran (Ali Wong) and Marcus Kim (Randall Park) spend a lot of time together in their youth. Sasha’s parents are almost never at home and she visits Marcus’s parents almost daily. The two are inseparable and at one point it even goes a little further than friendship, but after a fight they lose touch with each other for 15 years. Sasha becomes a successful chef who gets a lot of media attention and is about to get married. When, due to tensions with her fiancé, she temporarily moves back to her birthplace, she meets Marcus again. He works with his father as a contractor and plays in a band. The meeting is uncomfortable, but the two see each other again and again. Will they find love?
Always Be My Maybe may follow the standard template for romantic comedies, but the way it is filled in makes this a very entertaining film. There are nice, strange characters (such as Marcus’s girlfriend Jenny (Vivian Bang) and band member Tony (Karan Soni)) and there even is a cameo from an actor who surprised me a lot, but was fantastic at the same time. There is a lot of humor and Ali Wong and Randall Park have a wonderful chemistry. This is a Netflix movie that I enjoyed watching and I highly recommend.
This is one of those movies that you’d want to watch with others and share that experience, because laughter is contagious.
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I’m hoping word of mouth gets this movie the attention it deserves eventually! It definitely seems to have been popular in our little blogging community at least 🙂
I’ve heard really good things about this one. I tried to watch it but had a hard time getting in sync with it. But I’ve heard so many good things about it.