RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

paulwadsley Once again misled by the laurels on the DVD cover.I should know by now to avoid films that arty critics rave about. The same with The Tree of Life, totally overrated typical of arty Venice film festival Palme d'or winners. e.g. ,Blue is the warmest colour, The white Ribbon Leave etc; Leave domesticity and art to the French its their forte. But this film all so depressing overlong and meanders. No wonder it was not released in Taiwan. And it means one one not One and two or either some ones name. I am a great fan of Asian films but this one does not even begin to touch The Professors favourite Equation (, The House maid, Ip Man, Assembly, My sassy Girl, Hello stranger, Money not Enough. These films not only entertain but give us a great insight to Asian thinking and society without the depressing slowness of Yi Yi

Jackson Booth-Millard Featuring in the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die I was naturally going to watch this Taiwanese film regardless, and I was prepared to sit through a nearly three hour length if it turned out to be good. Basically this film is all about the Taipei family, focusing on three members of the family and their perspectives as they go through various difficult, meaningful and poignant moments in life. These are the middle-aged father N.J. (Nien-Jen Wu), young son Yang-Yang (Jonathan Chang) and teenage daughter Ting-Ting (Kelly Lee), as they start the film with a wedding, and the conclusion is a funeral. So N.J. has a job he is unhappy with, and desires to make a big deal in the Japanese video game industry, and unable to get his partners all on side he finds support from software mogul Ota (Issei Ogata), and he has former lover Sherry (Su-Yun Ko) trying to enter the fray. Son Yang-Yang is having trouble with teachers and stuff at school, and his daughter is in a love triangle with a neighbour and her troubled boyfriend. All this goes on while N.J.'s old mother in law is in a coma, his wife left for Buddhist retreat after having a midlife crisis, and overweight brother in law Ah-Di (Hsi-Sheng Chen) marries a film star and has to deal with extended family. I will be completely honest and say that I did not fully understand everything going on, because it has so many layers and situations to take in and make sense of. Also starring Elaine Jin as Min-Min, Adriene Lin as Li-Li and Pang Chang Yu as Fatty. I think the length was a slight issue for me, and it did add to the fact that I didn't know everything that was going on, but for some really good visual stuff, some interesting dialogue to see and listen to (a little English) and some social realism it is a watchable drama. Very good!

wlee08 Like watching paint dry. Tries to pull off a "magnolia" but fails to keep the viewer interested. Too long for too little. Waste of 3 hours. Boring piano accompaniments the whole way through. Grandmas in a coma,so Everybodys gotta talk to grandma every day. Gimme a break. This is a movie without any suspense, pure middle class drivel. I can't believe this was given thumbs up. I challenge any critic who enjoyed this to watch it a second time. Talk about being in a coma...there's some stuff coming out of China, but this and other painfully slow-moving scripts (like "2046") don't make the cut. It seemed like there was nothing in this movie that you wouldn't see walking thru a shopping mall. Business man questioning his existence? How cliché is that? The scene with the young couple watching the celloist in performance was so long I wanted to puke. If I want to hear cello music I'll put on yo-yo ma.

Benedict_Cumberbatch China produced at least three masterpieces in 2000: Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", Wong Kar-Wai's "In The Mood for Love", and Edward Yang's "Yi Yi"."Yi Yi" is a contemplative mosaic about a family in Taipei and other people linked to them, as they have to deal with loss, loneliness, death, guilt, jealousy, broken hearts, spiritual crises... Like a Chinese Robert Altman or Paul Thomas Anderson, Yang makes a sensitive, poignant and, at times, funny ensemble with a very peculiar pace and extraordinary tenderness. It's definitely a film to see more than once in order to fully appreciate its beauty and subtle, brilliant moments (like when Adriene Lin sings, or "mumbles", to herself Shostakovich's "Jazz Suite 2", the classical piece also wonderfully used in Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut"). The final eulogy, given by the little boy, is one of the most human, honest, low-key poetic scenes you'll ever see. Yang died last year, at the age of 59, with "Yi Yi" being his last work. I haven't had the chance to see his other films yet, but this emotional epic would be enough to seal his name as one of China's most remarkable filmmakers. R.I.P., Edward Yang. 10/10.