The Wedding Banquet (15)

★★★ A charming cast outshine the flimsy material in this fluffy remake of Ang Lee’s indie classic. ~ The Irish Times

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From Director Andrew Ahn comes a joyful comedy of errors about a chosen family navigating the disasters and delights of family expectations, queerness, and cultural identity.

Angela and her partner Lee have been unlucky with their IVF treatments, but can’t afford to pay for another round. Meanwhile, their friend Min, the closeted scion of a multinational corporate empire, has plenty of family money but a soon-to-expire student visa.

When his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris rejects his proposal, Min makes the offer to Angela instead: a green card marriage in exchange for funding Lee’s IVF. But their plans to quietly elope are upended when Min’s sceptical grandmother flies in from Korea unannounced, insisting on an all-out wedding extravaganza.

With a pitch-perfect cast of multigenerational talent that includes Bowen Yang, Academy Award nominee Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran, Han Gi-chan, Joan Chen, and Academy Award winner Youn Yuh-jung, this fresh reimagining of Ang Lee’s beloved, Award-winning rom-com teems with humour and heart in a poignant reminder that being part of a family means learning to both accept and forgive.

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★★★★ The Korean-American film-maker Andrew Ahn transplants Ang Lee’s 1993 romantic comedy from New York to the Asian queer community in Seattle for a gently hilarious remake. ~ The Times.

★★★★ Old and borrowed, yet refreshingly new. ~ RTE.

★★★★ Lily Gladstone, Bowen Yang and Star Wars actor Kelly Marie Tran lead this spirited, warmer, sillier take on Ang Lee’s Nineties romcom that plays a bit more conventionally than its predecessor – but is also happy to relax into the warm embrace of its cast. ~ The Independent.

★★★★ Not all of the humour lands but it's difficult to resist a film so unabashedly sweet and geared towards a queer audience. ~ Little White Lies.