The film opens with an aspiring (well, not really) filmmaker looking down on a film created by other Asian Americans. At first I took it as a shot at some recently-made films starring asian Americans, but as the film went on I wondered if the commentary was more about the character than those movies (I suspect both). While this movie ventured down some heavily-travelled paths, I thought it had a fresh take on the genre. In a lot of ways it reminded me of High Fidelity, and that is indeed high praise. Like that movie, there was comic relief but not at the expense of the bigger story. A lesser film would have made Sherry Cola into the stereotypical friend that says and does all kinds of crazy things. One of the main character's observations while watching the film at the beginning of the movie is that there was no character development. In this movie, we saw it in spades.

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