Fanta Fanta Fanta

The film today was definitely a Fanta film.

Crazy Rich Asians

Lots of wealthy Asians partying and a wedding and some bossy women in the family who think that only  members of big wealthy Asian families  can be any good.

A lot of fun, not really a comedy as such although it is advertised as a romcom which I take it to mean romantic comedy.  There aren't so many laughs in it but it is enjoyable.

Rachel is an Asian American living in New York, and has always lived in New York,  and an economics professor (looks the most unlikely  economics professor  I have ever seen and impossibly too young even if she is the youngest ever as we are told,  but then this is the US of A academia) who is going out with the son of the wealthiest family in Singapore but she doesn't know it.  He persuades her to go to home to Singapore with him to his best friend's wedding and to meet his family.  He tells her nothing about the wealth.   She goes.   She has a friend living there from college days who is gobsmacked when she says who she is going out with.

Lots of big parties, loads of food,  the film never rests.  I didn't feel fidgety, just occupied with the Fanta and a KitKat and the film.   Enjoyable fun;  they go to  respective hen and stag parties, whole islands taken over, no wealth spared, lots of his funny relatives who make the funniest bits of the film, and Rachel's college friend who is good,   and the not so fun mother who thinks that Rachel isn't good enough for her son when one day, like right now,  he should be home in the family business and not living in New York.

To cut a long story short, in the end everyone comes to the rescue and it  has a happy ending.

I  have no idea what, if any,  message  the film was supposed to put across  in being all Asian.  It was  light, fun and not heavyweight;  it was what it was, Crazy Rich Asians, and it was like with the recent Chekhov Seagull film where I forgot I was in Russia, here I forgot about Asia and just thought I was watching  Asian Americans with a big family back home in Singapore.    It was just very Hollywood, not Singapollywood  and nothing wrong with that. 

A good film  if you are at a loose end.