Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

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.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Martin Teller Like EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN, it's an Ang Lee family drama. A successful gay Taiwanese man and a struggling Chinese woman living in New York arrange to get married: he to appease and deceive his parents, she for a green card. Although not as moving as the earlier film, it has some really fun comic moments, cultural insight, strong characters, and a lot of charm. All of the Asian actors are terrific and endearing, especially the parents played by Ya-lei Kuei and Sihung Lung (both returning from EDMW). The weak link in the cast is Mitchell Lichtenstein (Wai Tung's lover), who comes off as extremely bland and too much of a swell guy. There is something a little safe and sanitized about the whole thing, but it's respectful in its dealing with gay issues and overall is a pleasure to watch with a script that flows nicely.

nonon99_99 Now it is nearly thirteen years since my first viewing of Wedding Banquet. Its emotion impact, its humanistic beauty never diminish. As I am growing adult, I am able to understand it more. The Wedding Banquet is a film of significance in several contexts. First it belongs to Ang Lee's so called Father Trilogy, a series of films examining the situation traditional Chinese Father figure faces in today's society. It is also the most striking one within the three, as the portrayal of gays is still somehow then and today a taboo both in American and Taiwanese societies. The gay kiss in this film is the first ever kiss between two men in Taiwanese cinema. Second, Ang Lee's miraculous artistic language is already there, although not quite polished. The way he deals with sense and sensibility contrast, the use of departing scene to express the core message, the use of tiny details to portray the dynamic relationships between characters and many more, are all fascinating to explored. Viewers who are familiar with Ang Lee's latter success will find out many secrets in this film. Third, Wedding Banquet has a huge impact in the Chinese gay communities. It tells something so many people would never find chance to tell their parents. Why does Father finally make acceptance? The film has suggested several answers, one of them not everyone could capture, is his love to his son. Because of his love, the Father survives today. An impossible question is finally answered.

chainryu This wonderful work talks more about family than gay-life. it can be separated into 2 parts .the preceding one is full of humor and unrolls the story calmly but not laggardly ,and the latter one would make you heart heavy but without losing hope. Western people maybe can not experience the impotent rejection of young Chinese toward the tumultuous Chinese wedding customs, or understand how devout the filial piety stands in the spirits of every Chinese people. maybe only Chinese can know why Mrs. GAO burst into tears when she heard the engine roaring of the car carrying her son and pregnant daughter-in-law, and why Mr. GAO gave a red-paper-pack of money as a birthday gift to "his another son" Simon after attacked by apoplexy which cause by knowing his son a gay man, and still asked Simon to assist himself in pretending unaware of anything.It's a fabulous movie that makes me watch it again and again and again. when I was still a childlike teenager, I thought Ang Lee's movies were all so boring that i fell in asleep every time. And when I grown a little up and more sensitive but still childish, I found all his films so amazing that I can't help holding tears in my eyes at that moment.

moonspinner55 The very definition of 'nice': an Asian man, living in New York with his male lover, pretends to be both straight and engaged to appease his Old World parents, who travel from their homeland to attend their son's "wedding". Heterosexual viewers unaccustomed to gay-themed dramas may find this early Ang Lee film palatable. A fast-moving comedy-drama from China (in both Chinese and English), it was seemingly made with the determination not to be offensive or controversial in the slightest--which, of course, is both pro and con. The well-acted film is certainly tolerable, yet rather routine, breaking no new ground (1993 wasn't soon enough to break some taboos?). Performances by the Asian players are fine, but big, bland American Mitchell Lichtenstein seems out of his element. Think of this as a situation comedy with subtitles. **1/2 from ****