The acting is average, the plot predictable, and the comedy uninspired, with the laughs usually punctuated by one character loudly getting annoyed at another. Still, given the film's target audience - that is, undemanding teen girls - Baby and I gets some leeway. Really, provided the above outline, you can write the rest of the movie.
Can Joon-Su deal with Woo-Ram? Will his parents come back? Will Joon-Su return the affections of cute and kooky Kim Byeol (Kim Byeol), a teen genius who has the hots for him and is willing to babysit Woo-Ram? And will Joon-Su reform and quit being the causeless rebel he tries to be? As you'd expect from a manufactured commercial film, these conflicts are settled with the most obvious clichés possible. With little choice, Joon-Su must care for the tyke, while also trying to attend school and earn some dough. Sadly, Joon-Su can't ask his parents for help because they've run away from home, choosing to secretly live in a 24-hour spa because they're tired of their son's rebelliousness. How is this irresponsible, too-cool-for-school dude supposed to handle this?
One evening while Joon-Su is at the grocery store, he finds Woo-Ram in his shopping cart, with the person who left him nowhere to be seen. The baby, named Woo-Ram (super-cute Mason Moon), is revealed to be the product of one of Joon-Su's numerous teen affairs. Joon-Su is a righteous dude who's good in a fight, rebellious towards lame school authority figures, and ultimately quite caring for his new son. Who might like Baby and I? Probably teenage girls, who should be delighted with protagonist Joon-Su (played by hot idol Jang Geon-Seok), a transparently manufactured rebel who rides motorcycles and is so cute that girls swoon at the sight of him. Also, Baby and I is probably not worth mentioning to fans of the manga because really, it's not very good. The whole point of the manga - a look at an adolescent raising a child - is not present anymore, so it's hard to even consider this an adaptation. Before it was necessity and unforeseen tragedy, now it's teen pregnancy and sitcom family dynamics. The film loosely features the same concept as the manga, but it keeps the mother alive, ages the kid from grade school to high school, and changes the plot device that makes him into the baby's guardian. Too bad about the movie.Īccording to Anime News Network, the South Korean comedy Baby and I takes its inspiration from Marimo Ragawa's Baby and Me, a nineties Japanese manga about a grade school kid who helps raise his baby brother after their mother passes away. Kim Byeol, Jang Geun-Sook, and little Mason Moon in Baby and I.
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