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I appreciated how often the trainees shown in Backstage were the ones who might have gotten less screen time during the episodes themselves.
Is it worth buying VIP just to watch it? No. But taking into consideration all the other additional materials linked to YWY Season 3 like Youth Party which are available for VIP users, all in all, it's worth the money - IF you like the program and the trainees themselves.
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Compared to other body swap comedies, The Dude in Me focuses mostly on Pan Soo’s story and his problems after he travels into Dong Hyun’s body. Even the stories that at first concern Dong Hyun, at the end were connected to Pan Soo himself through his relationship with other characters. It’s a one man story, sadly I was hoping for more of a duet, showing more evenly both sides of the swap.
Jung Jin Young did an amazing job portraying the characters, overshadowing even Park Sung Woong (let’s remember though, that he was far less involved in the story). He delivered with both comedy and action scenes, giving a well balanced performance.
One thing that I must complain about is the lack of redemption arc for Pan Soo. Everything just happens, without much of a reflection on his side. The opening scenes depicted him as too much of a villain, and later not enough work has been done to show him in a better light. The negative relationship between him and Dong Hyun’s dad was also brushed over and forgotten.
Overall: It’s, at times, a senseless comedy, but it will make you entertained. It works thanks to the good performance from the cast and reasonable duration - the movie does not drag.
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Ignoring the unnecessary supernatural aspect of the movie, it's quite an interesting portray of the struggles and hardships of a gay people in Korea in 1990', especially among teens.
The way the story is presented is simply confusing, though not impossible to follow. The timeline keeps changing, the flashbacks and current events are, at times, hard to distinguish from each other. Min Ah's deep involvement with the couple is also quite weakly explained.
The worst part of the show is the ending act. That's when the heavy supernatural element is introduced and takes over the story. And it makes the story feel so cheap. This movie would have worked so much better as a teen melodrama or coming of age story.
I liked the acting in Whispering Corridors 2 way more than the first movie. It's more modern in style, and because of that, feels more natural.
Overall, I did enjoy it more than the first movie, simply because the topics discussed in here were more serious. I wouldn't call it an amazing movie, but I don't regret picking it up.
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The plot was not paced well. I didn't care about the background story, since it was not gradually presented in an interesting way. There is nothing fresh nor groundbreaking about this concept, so one could at least expect amazing execution.
Technically speaking, the movie could still be interesting, if it had a well written set of characters. The Chosen: Forbidden Cave, sadly, presents us with empty shells with no interesting traits. A good majority of the cast has a low level of energy, and the only character that presents a semi-personality is Joo Hye In, but even she has been toned down to just a background witness of the plot. While the cast is doing a good job, there is not much to the characters in the first place.
The soundtrack was questionable at least. The final confrontation became comedic with the choice of background music for it. Not to mention the CGI. The design for the demons was just a tragic miss.
Overall... don't watch it. There are better horrors that revolve around shamanism.
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