Konterr Brilliant and touching

Freaktana A Major Disappointment

Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Irishchatter I found this film rather different because, it's set in Japan and we get to see the places,language, people, etc. Of course, Brittany Murphy ( RIP ) being the only American girl throughout the whole movie and trying to understand what the Japanese people around her are saying! Honestly, I thought it was rather annoying to not have the subtitles included on this. You can know by their expressions or tone of voice of what's happening and you still don't bloody know what they are talking about! I would've loved to have known what they were truly saying. Anyways I love the fact that Murphy's character found true love again by a wonderful Japanese man. I say, we wish we could have someone like that to make our lives simple, right ladies? HahaI really like this film, it really opens up on what Japanese culture is about. I have to warn you, if you badly need subtitles and you're not good at Japanese, don't panic if you don't know what's happening. I've been there! Just enjoy watching it and it might be a good experience for you!

specifilics The light hearted humor and dreamy plot of starting from nothing to achieving something is very appealing to younger kids. It's a shame the rating restricted it from its own audience in theaters, but thankfully it released on DVD very quickly.For a romantic comedy, it does a good job of balancing both while also introducing plenty of different aspects to Japanese culture. The actress herself did a wonderful job at presenting a character who was enticing to watch as she played the role of an apprentice with charm and innocence. I hope this movie reaches the wider audience it deserves.

Giuseppe Nardelli The Ramen girl is an inspirational movie, which teaches that life sometimes or often when needed, brings us trough strange and unwelcomed roads to reach our true destiny and discover our nature. The protagonist in the movie is a girl, an under-achiever who has never completed anything in her life and has a clingy relationship with her boyfriend who is a software developer in Japan. When he abandon her she fall in pieces but she resist to the temptation to go back to the USA and find solace in a ramen shoo located near her flat. She is so lonely that ask the shop owner to be his apprentice. The owner, who does not speak English, is a tough Japanese man who in his hearth is missing his young son who has left for Europe deciding not too follow the father footsteps. The girl has to endure shouting and abuse and being ridiculed, until she gets the respect of the owner and his clients. Interesting is that the girl is trying to learn to cook ramen in the western way, thinking with the mind, while the owner tries to make her understand that for the perfect ramen broth you need to use your feeling and emotions which are the ingredients that the customer ultimately is buying. Finally the girls become a ramen chief, open her own shop and find the love of her life

right left Strange thing about this movie is that it has a lot of things wrong with it, but it is still a good movie, because it has a lot of "charm". Not the kind of charm in a movie that is overly contrived, but an actual sincere charm - which is hard to find. Most credit goes to Brittany Murphy for the charm, because she is such a naturally, sweet girl that she just delivers that quality to the whole film. The first problem I would love to address is the Cover of the DVD/Poster/Ad, because it is really awful. It has a "reverse stereotype" of Brittany Murphy in a Kimono with hands clasped. This would be okay for a film that one would think is about a soft-porn, submissive female on Cinemax, but it is not - it's more in the line of Karate Kid, and Shall we Dance. The People who watch expecting to see some White girl in Japan in hot, sexy escapades will be disappointed, and the People who usually watch more cultural, art films would avoid it thinking it's just soft-porn, so this "Cover" just disappoints everyone. The Marketing Dept. should learn from the people who market Fast & the Furious, because those movies sucks big, but always pulls in the audience because people know what to expect.