![]() Since this involves gangsters, there are many fights to enjoy, whether it is Pan-Soo schooling his bullies or gangsters twice his age in Dong-Hyun’s body, or Man-Chul taking care of business. Don’t worry, it is not tawdry, in fact, the script does everything to avoid such lowbrow occurrences. This would mean having to tell Mi-Sun the truth about his current situation before the awkward Marty McFly moment occurs with his own daughter. You may have already put two and two together regarding Hyeon-jeong and yes you are correct, putting a totally different onus on Pan-Soo’s mission to protect her. Want more developments? Try this one: Hyeon-jeoung’s mother runs a pub and when Dong-Hyun pays a visit, he immediately recognises her – his ex-girlfriend Oh Mi-Sun (Ra Mi-ran)! They had a bitter falling out 17 years earlier when Mi-Sun didn’t want to date a gangster, and Pan-Soo shrugged it off as he was set to marry Seo-Yeon anyway, but he never stopped loving Mi-Sun. A little leeway is required to see Dong-Hyun go from chubby loser to six-pack sporting dreamboat in such a short period of time, but let’s face it, it isn’t the most ludicrous idea in this film. Their fateful collision comes when Dong-Hyun tries to retrieve a shoe from a pole on the roof at the behest of baying school bullies, framing the lad as a perennial loser.īut herein lays the interesting twist: Pan-Soo isn’t inheriting a useless body, rather his skills and brain have transferred into it, so when the usually timid, put upon lad returns to school, it is a huge shock to the system of his tormentors when he starts slapping them around! This shift in the balance of power is rewarding to watch for those of us who were bullied at school and wanted to fight back, but it is just the start of the story.Īnother victim of this is Hyeon-jeong (Lee Soo-min), who Pan-Soo takes it upon himself to protect, encouraging her to take up self-defence classes whilst he loses some weight. Seo-Yeon throws a fit when Pan-Soo forbids her to waste money on something frivolous but little does he know, she has been in cahoots her husband’s rival, Boss Yang (Yoon Kyung-ho), her partner in the embezzlement set-up that incurs a bounty on Pan-Soo’s head.ĭong-Hyun doesn’t make a good first impression on Pan-Soo in the café, scoffing a fatty meal – which Pan-Soo hates – then forgetting his wallet, so the café owner cons Pan-Soo into paying for Dong-Hyun’s meal. Pan-Soo might seem like a smooth operator but as a gangster he is not nice people compared to his shrewish younger wife, he is diamond. Of course, certain conventions remain, the concept is beholden to them, it is what Kang does with them that makes this such fun. This might sound like a cop out, delivering only half the usual story, whereas the pragmatic view to take is that we are spared an abundance of clichés via this streamlined narrative. One noticeable difference is keeping the focus on just Pan-Soo as Dong-Hyun rather than running two concurrent stories until they finally converge. Fortunately, The Dude In Me takes a slightly different approach in relaying the same message regarding the importance of family through an amusing yet convoluted situation. Kang Hyo-Jin is no stranger to body swap comedies, having helmed 2015’s Wonderful Nightmare (remade in China as Beautiful Accident), making it odd for a director to revisit the same concept. Meanwhile, Pan-Soo’s right hand man Man-Chul (Lee Joon-Hyuk) learns Seo-Yeon has framed Pan-Soo for embezzlement and suggests pretending to be Dong-Hyun to lie low. Awaking in hospital, Pan-Soo discovers he is now in Dong-Hyun’s body and Dong-Hyun is in his, although still in a coma. ![]() Held up in traffic, Pan-Soo steps out of his car just as Dong-Hyun falls off the roof and lands onto top of him. ![]() ![]() Whilst taking a trip down memory lane at a café he used to visit, Pan-Soo encounters nervy, chubby high school boy, Kim Dong-Hyun (Jin Young), with a huge and unhealthy appetite Gangster Jang Pan-Soo (Park Sung-Woong) is noted for his toughness and no-nonsense approach, except with his spoiled wife Seo-Yeon (Min Ji-A), daughter of family chairman Han (Kim Hong-Fa). It would be nice to wake up and be a different person, except such changes take time – unless someone else ends up in your body. Those of us who aren’t the most dynamic, good looking, or adept at physical activities long to be imbued with these skills if we see how cool those who do possess them are. The Dude In Me (Naeanui Geunom) Korea (2019) Dir. ![]()
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