Tuesday, November 07, 2006

School's Out for Everyone Involved - Mr Wacky

Mr Wacky is a cut and paste comedy that has no direction, poor acting, and a story that meanders from cheap laughs to mild melodrama. Park Geon-hyeong plays Ju-Ho, a young playboy who spends every living moment chasing women and driving fast cars. While on a visit to the hospital to see his grandfather (who has had an operation for hemorrhoids), Ju-Ho gets a piece of bad news -- his grandfather wants him to fulfill his mother's wish for him to be a teacher. The grandfather has cut all funds, even out of his will, so the only way Ju-Ho can get back into the lifestyle he is accustomed to is to teach for two years. Reluctantly, he does, but instead of being a teacher's assistant, he is handed responsibility for an entire class without any help. Ju-Ho has no idea how to go about this -- so he shirks his duties, phones in his assignments to the class president who then relays the message, or lets the class have it's way while he kills time until the time is up. He is content to coast along like this, but is thwarted by another teacher, So-Yu Un, who keeps everyone in line, and pushes Ju-Ho to actually do some teaching. So-Yu lives a lonely bachelorette existence, and it become clear that she will be the love interest, though the only thing they have in common is a bad attitude. They get together, fall for each other, then So-Yu disappears from the rest of the film. Ju-Ho deals with the various school cliques, helps out one young girl, and eventually leaves the school. The end of the film leaves him teaching a grade school class, with a more professional attitude.

I can tolerate mediocre films, especially the hack comedies, but by any standards this is a piece of garbage, with nothing to recommend. Tedious and boring, devoid of imagination. Avoid at all costs.

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