This movie is difficult to categorize, but I'd probably call it a romantic comedy, with some scary moments here and there. The pairing of Lee MIn Ki and Sohn Ye Jin is pretty good. LMK is a curious and slightly hapless magician, and SYJ is first introduced to the audience as a listless and sad looking woman (the look on her face in the first scene of the movie just cracks me up to no end).
I am no fan of horror movies at all. However, with this one, even the supposedly scary scenes where ghosts appear (helped by the usual scary music and pale ghost faces) are mostly undercut by humour (vastly helped by the mischievous music) and sometimes have happy endings. There are also plenty of purely comedic scenes. Within the first 18 minutes of this movie I was already tearing from all the laughing - no joke.
This is a mostly light-hearted movie, filled with some sad moments about the effects of Yeo-ri's powers on her, and heartwarming moments with the ghosts. The ghosts that haunt Yeo-ri have not gone into the afterworld because they still have things to settle on earth.
On an unrelated note, this is the second movie I've seen SYJ in where she goes to a batting cage, the first one being A Moment to Remember, but in this one her character is good at it, but in AMTR, her character is hopeless at it. Hmm interesting.
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