JohnnyRobinson
Springfield, MO
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Slightly better than Sexi Is Zero 1...!
Same group of misfit college students but love wins out on its own this time...
This film continues combine a group of misfit college students together in a college/university setting and show a good entertaining movie as well!
Using the first movie's typical love story format, a non-traditional college student Jang Eun Shik (Im Chang Jung) hits on the swim team athlete Lee Kyung Ah (Song Ji Hyo) but his awkwardness still makes it harder for him to seal the deal, as in Sex Is Zero 1.
junior swim star Kyung Ah meets and is then wooed by Eun Shik (after Eun Shik's first girlfriend from the first movie, Lee Eun Hyo [Ha Ji Won], leaves college) . Kyung Ah finally accepts Eun Shik, due to his being nice to her when others were not.
The couple's main problem is the lack of "bed time' between the two of them, a fact that both couple's friends tease them about!
In this movie, the handsome prosecutor Gi Joo (Lee Sang Yoon), becomes the third element of this movie's love triangle. Gi Joo. a student in Sex Is Zero 1, has now graduated college and became a assistant prosecutor in the city. Kyung Ah and Gi Joo attended high school together earlier and a chance meeting makes Gi Joo start thinking about her again .
Enter Lee Kyung Ah's mother, played by actress Kim Chung; she turns nasty after her daughter Kyung Ah hurts her leg and is told she probably would never swim again. She pressures Eun Shik to drop her daughter as his girlfreind and let Gi Joo give her a more stable future. Gi Joo, wanting Kyung Ah again after their chance reunion, tells Mommy that Kyung Ah can accompany him to the United States as he goes there for further education, where athletic medicine is more advanced than in Korea. Mommy goes all-out in a meeting with Eun Shik to remind him that her daugher would be better off with a man with a degree such as Gi Joo, not a deadbeat like him.
There is a few flashback of Lee Kyung Ah being bullied by the other university students; she was raped in high school by her high school swim coach,; wanting to kill herself, due ot the bullying she is consoled by Eun Shik shortly after she thinks of suicide. He who did the same for his former dance team girlfriend, Lee Eun Hyo (Ha Ji Won) in movie 1.
After being humiliated by Lee Kyung Ah's mother, Eun Shik decides to kill the relationship with Kyung Ah, though his superb acting showed that he was doing it for true liove, opening up Lee Kyung Ah to be able to choose Gi Joo and possibly saving her swimming career...
However, Lee Kyung Ah still doesn't believe in letting go that easy; she does not know that Eun Shik dropped off a birthday present for her after she passes out from too much liquor, but even without knowing this, Kyung Ah invites him to bed with her one final time, after a chance meeting with Eun Shik when he had passed his civil examinations. The night before she is scheduled to leave for America comes the most most depressing scene - Kyung Ah, now drunk keeps asking Kyung Ah to stay and sleep with her; both are crying: Eun Shik cries since he is trying to let her go for when her mother believes to be a better future for her, and Kyung Ah cries for what she believes is Eun Shik's final rejection of her...so sad!
Only at the airport does her female 'friend' remember the birthday gift he left, and she decides that Eun Shik is the better choice for her future! She assed out, saying that Eun Shik didn't even call her on her birthday, but her friend takes his call after she is passed out; he also had bought her the very expensive pair of shoes she had seen in a department store's window, when he was carrying her home from another night of too much drinking!
Weaved around this love triangle story is the antics of a typical mischievous college students; again this makes the two movies seem more live-like, in my opnion. As a former college student myself, even a conservative college in America's Midwest can admit that such antics take place, and it made the whole movie seem real.
I loved the specal guest appearance of Ha Ji Won, as Eun Shik's Sex Is Zero 1 girlfriend leaving college at the beginning of the second movie, and I also LOVE the fact that the director/staff placed bits of the hilarious "behind-the-scenes" shots of how much fun it was to make this movie ; many people forget that this movie was planned and written and shot for entertainment and not real life. By including the takes where the cast was (mainly) laughing too hard to do a scene right makes for good publicity, in my book (See the endings of the American series of "CANNONBALL RUN" movies for a similar use of funny takes by the director and staff.).
Even though this and Sex Is Zero 1 are rated by many as terrible movies, others say that the antics portrayed in these two movies remind them of their college years, although the movie antics are a bit "exaggerated"...
Minimal nudity (mainly breasts) exist in this movie as well, along with references to sex acts and eroticism throughout number 2 as well; NOTHING THAT WOULD OFFEND A 15-YEAR-OLD OR OLDER.
I thought that the cinematography of this AND THE FIRST semi fast-paced movie was good; and both the main and support cast worked well together, especially since most appeared in the first movie as well!
All in all, a very enjoyable movie, as the first one was. The only problems I saw were a) some of the movie seemed to be taken verbatim from the first movie, and b) some believe it was slow at points...I say, WHO CARES!
It was still anther good movie from the director and cast!
RE-WATCH VALUE: definitely!
This film continues combine a group of misfit college students together in a college/university setting and show a good entertaining movie as well!
Using the first movie's typical love story format, a non-traditional college student Jang Eun Shik (Im Chang Jung) hits on the swim team athlete Lee Kyung Ah (Song Ji Hyo) but his awkwardness still makes it harder for him to seal the deal, as in Sex Is Zero 1.
junior swim star Kyung Ah meets and is then wooed by Eun Shik (after Eun Shik's first girlfriend from the first movie, Lee Eun Hyo [Ha Ji Won], leaves college) . Kyung Ah finally accepts Eun Shik, due to his being nice to her when others were not.
The couple's main problem is the lack of "bed time' between the two of them, a fact that both couple's friends tease them about!
In this movie, the handsome prosecutor Gi Joo (Lee Sang Yoon), becomes the third element of this movie's love triangle. Gi Joo. a student in Sex Is Zero 1, has now graduated college and became a assistant prosecutor in the city. Kyung Ah and Gi Joo attended high school together earlier and a chance meeting makes Gi Joo start thinking about her again .
Enter Lee Kyung Ah's mother, played by actress Kim Chung; she turns nasty after her daughter Kyung Ah hurts her leg and is told she probably would never swim again. She pressures Eun Shik to drop her daughter as his girlfreind and let Gi Joo give her a more stable future. Gi Joo, wanting Kyung Ah again after their chance reunion, tells Mommy that Kyung Ah can accompany him to the United States as he goes there for further education, where athletic medicine is more advanced than in Korea. Mommy goes all-out in a meeting with Eun Shik to remind him that her daugher would be better off with a man with a degree such as Gi Joo, not a deadbeat like him.
There is a few flashback of Lee Kyung Ah being bullied by the other university students; she was raped in high school by her high school swim coach,; wanting to kill herself, due ot the bullying she is consoled by Eun Shik shortly after she thinks of suicide. He who did the same for his former dance team girlfriend, Lee Eun Hyo (Ha Ji Won) in movie 1.
After being humiliated by Lee Kyung Ah's mother, Eun Shik decides to kill the relationship with Kyung Ah, though his superb acting showed that he was doing it for true liove, opening up Lee Kyung Ah to be able to choose Gi Joo and possibly saving her swimming career...
However, Lee Kyung Ah still doesn't believe in letting go that easy; she does not know that Eun Shik dropped off a birthday present for her after she passes out from too much liquor, but even without knowing this, Kyung Ah invites him to bed with her one final time, after a chance meeting with Eun Shik when he had passed his civil examinations. The night before she is scheduled to leave for America comes the most most depressing scene - Kyung Ah, now drunk keeps asking Kyung Ah to stay and sleep with her; both are crying: Eun Shik cries since he is trying to let her go for when her mother believes to be a better future for her, and Kyung Ah cries for what she believes is Eun Shik's final rejection of her...so sad!
Only at the airport does her female 'friend' remember the birthday gift he left, and she decides that Eun Shik is the better choice for her future! She assed out, saying that Eun Shik didn't even call her on her birthday, but her friend takes his call after she is passed out; he also had bought her the very expensive pair of shoes she had seen in a department store's window, when he was carrying her home from another night of too much drinking!
Weaved around this love triangle story is the antics of a typical mischievous college students; again this makes the two movies seem more live-like, in my opnion. As a former college student myself, even a conservative college in America's Midwest can admit that such antics take place, and it made the whole movie seem real.
I loved the specal guest appearance of Ha Ji Won, as Eun Shik's Sex Is Zero 1 girlfriend leaving college at the beginning of the second movie, and I also LOVE the fact that the director/staff placed bits of the hilarious "behind-the-scenes" shots of how much fun it was to make this movie ; many people forget that this movie was planned and written and shot for entertainment and not real life. By including the takes where the cast was (mainly) laughing too hard to do a scene right makes for good publicity, in my book (See the endings of the American series of "CANNONBALL RUN" movies for a similar use of funny takes by the director and staff.).
Even though this and Sex Is Zero 1 are rated by many as terrible movies, others say that the antics portrayed in these two movies remind them of their college years, although the movie antics are a bit "exaggerated"...
Minimal nudity (mainly breasts) exist in this movie as well, along with references to sex acts and eroticism throughout number 2 as well; NOTHING THAT WOULD OFFEND A 15-YEAR-OLD OR OLDER.
I thought that the cinematography of this AND THE FIRST semi fast-paced movie was good; and both the main and support cast worked well together, especially since most appeared in the first movie as well!
All in all, a very enjoyable movie, as the first one was. The only problems I saw were a) some of the movie seemed to be taken verbatim from the first movie, and b) some believe it was slow at points...I say, WHO CARES!
It was still anther good movie from the director and cast!
RE-WATCH VALUE: definitely!
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