You Are The Apple Of My Eye (那些年，我们一起追的女孩) Review

You Are The Apple of My Eye is a Taiwanese romantic, coming-of-age comedy about Ko Ching-Teng (Ko Chen Tung), a mischievous, lazy student who falls for an honour student, Shen Chia-yi (Michelle Chen) and chases her.



I'm not a fan of romantic comedies at all. I loathe it when the main plot is about a couple. I, however, found this film very sweet. I loved the character and the relationship between the 2 main characters were beautiful and believable. You root for them to get together. And the film, unlike alot of romantic comedies out there, is funny.

I thought that even though Ching-Teng was a cliche character, he was still likable and you don't get bored from his character. Chia Yi was also another likable character and I really bought the relationship. So, kudos to the actors because both really have chemistry. Even though I thought that their acting could have used some improvement, it was not too much of a distraction.

One thing I really liked about the film was the ending. It made me respect the story a lot more and teaches us how love is about sacrifices as well. It may cause a huge upset but, let's face it, life can end up this way as well.

My complaints for this movie are very minor. First, I thought that some comedy (most of which derived from sexual humour) was little too much at times. The movie also dragged in the middle. And, as mentioned, the acting wasn't the best.

However, despite my complaints, I enjoyed watching this movie and I highly recommend it to everyone (who are not children).

Arthur Christmas: An animated comedy from Aardman. You know what that means? Lots of British humour! You know what that also means? I need to watch the movie more than once to get the British humour because I'm dumb that way!



Arthur Christmas answers a popular question: How does Santa get around the world with presents all in one night? Also, why is it that we can never see Santa's house even if we searched it on Google Earth? The answer is that Santa (voiced by Jim Broadbent)and his millions if (ninja) elves go around the world delivering presents in a high tech spaceship. The person controlling this mission is none other than his son, Steve (Hugh Laurie). One day, however, a child's present has not been delivered and it up to Arthur (James McAvoy) and his granfather, grandsanta (Bill Nighy)to get that present to the child before Christmas morning.

Yes, the story's highly predictable but aside from that I really enjoyed this movie. It was smart, funny and beautifully animated. This movie is, also, coming from Aardman (the people who created Chicken Run and Happy Feet). In this movie, every character is likable as well. Arthur, the extremely holiday-spirited boy, is very lovable and I thought that James McAvoy has done such a great job to bring out the sweetness and innocence of this character. Grandsanta is very funny as well.

The animation is brilliant. The details to the character's hair, clothes, clouds- all beautifully done. I know this sounds gross but I was looking at Grandsanta's nose at one point and I just love how they put so much detail into it. Also, the first flying scene was great and it really gave me that sense of flight (and it reminded me of How to Train Your Dragon as well!)

The humour, I thought, was okay. It wasn't laugh-out-loud funny but I had a few chuckles here and there. I saw what they were trying to do but I didn't think it was as funny as everyone said it was to be. Some jokes feel flat for me and were a little too kiddish for my taste.

The movie dragged in the middle and I couldn't help but feel a little bored.

The "moral of the story" was pretty interesting too because it wasn't for kids. They tackled on the issue of "Old vs New" and which is better. So, that's always interesting to see how one has an advantage over the other.

This would be definitely be one of the movies where families would watch over and over again on Christmas. Arthur Christmas is a Christmas classic.