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Summary: Unique and tantalizing
Review: Definitly amazing and delightful from the beginning. This movie will certainly get your taste buds juicing for chinese cuisine. The storyline is filled with many twists that will keep you yearning for more. A well made unique film that creates a atmosphere like no other. It was definitly a pleasant surprise.
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Summary: Amazing and Unique
Review: From the start, this movie is bound to spark interest. The amazing beginning definitly caught my curiosity with its splenidid cooking scenario. It has a great story filled with many twists that will keep you second guessing as well as salivating. A movie unique to non- asian, which is well done and left me craving for more.
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Summary: Yeah Whatever
Review: Kinda funny that we all fall for marketing schemes aimed at us ethnic people. Tortilla soup is the same film!!! Both have the same issues and the only diffrence is that one is more americanised than the other. I prefer Tortilla more sine I can relate to it better better. But come on give us something more than a recycled scrip aimed at another race! ...
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Summary: Perfect movie
Review: This is the first (and only at this point) Ang Lee movie and I plan to go and rent evrything else of his I can.
I started watching this movie and started to fear that there's be too many characters who have similar names and look alike at first glance, but within minutes, I realized it was not a problem and I felt like I knew every character and actually cared about them- something I rarely do with any film.
Plenty of people have went on and on about this film, so I'll make it short and say this is quite simply a perfect movie that actually made me clap at one point and near tear at the end- which I'll deny everywhere else but here.
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Summary: Great Love Story With Food that Looks to Die For!
Review: I fell in love with this movie when I first saw it. The story is wonderful and the food they make is increadible I crave Chinese food after watching this movie!!! I recommend this movie to ne1 who likes romance movies or Asian films!
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Summary: Makes you laugh, makes you cry, makes you hungry!
Review: Be sure to get a big order of Chinese take-out when you watch this movie because the food is a character in and of itself and if it doesn't make you hungry, then your stomach is dead. I've had this movie on Laserdisc for years and it is one of my favorite foreign films! It's a very well done story about an aging Chef and his three daughters - each of them completely different. Each daughter tries to find their place in the world as the Father tries figure out where he belongs without his girls. I highly recommend it to anyone who has daughters, is a daughter, loves Chinese food, or simply likes good storytelling.
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Summary: Surprising lack of violence
Review: I expected some Matrix-style action sequences, or at least some Taco Bell tie-ins- and I found none. How can a film expect to be good if people just stand around talking and doing stuff? This film desperately needed Keanu Reeves.
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Summary: A good portrayal of Chinese life and culture...
Review: I saw this movie in my Chinese class at school and i thought it was an very powerful and captivating story. I live in Taipei, so i could relate to many of the cultural aspects of the movie. It was brilliantly made and I think it did an excellent job of portraying Chinese/Taiwanese culture. A bonus part to the story is the food... wow... you'd better not be hungry while you watch this movie. check out more of the movies starring the guy that plays Mr. Chu, he's wonderful in many roles.
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Summary: EAT FIRST, then watch.
Review: Or have food on hand.... Once your munchies are subdued, you'll be able to enjoy the people in this movie, which has been well described by the other reviewers. I enjoy how the characters are not cliche "eldest daughter," "crusty father," "cute smart guy in office" -- they're individuals that you haven't run into a dozen times in other films, that you're glad to meet and spend time with. But you can relate to them easily, even if you're not Asian (I'm not).The music is excellent too; I've been hunting for the soundtrack.
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Summary: Few can compare
Review: If you are an International Film junkie like I am, you will notice the superb editing of movies of this genre. A movie of three daughters who come of age and a father's coming to terms with it all, the movie moves from scene to scene with an ease rarely enjoyed. The movie asks us to question what and how we define success. Not to give too much away, the real question asked is not how others define our success but rather how we define our lives. You can't deny the cornucopia of color and you can almost smell the delight. In the end, like all journeys, the hardest ones to take and complete are those that bring us back to ourselves. Heart warming as it is, I could almost be accused of being seduced by a "chick flick" but this is that and more. Cultural divides are difficult to bridge at best but if cinema can help, why not. Watch this movie again and again - then go order some take out. Miguel Llora
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