This looks like a picture-perfect adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s hit novel, from the casting to the couture.
Everyone compares “Crazy Rich Asians” to Jane Austen. While this might seem like a lazy or hyperbolic comparison, trust me when I say it is not. The story of college professor Rachel Chu, her fellow professor and boyfriend Nicholas Young, and his insanely wealthy and judgmental family harkens back to “Pride and Prejudice” in the best way possible — that is, if “Pride and Prejudice” was littered with enough descriptions of decadent meals and elegant couture gowns to make readers’ mouths water.
The news that “Crazy Rich Asians” was going to be made into a movie was exciting on multiple fronts. First, because it’s a hit book that is so packed with over-the-top imagery, zany characters, and witty dialogue that it feels like a film even as you are reading it. Second, because the entire cast is Asian. And for Asian actors, leading roles in modern romantic comedies like Crazy Rich Asians are not just rare, they are practically nonexistent.
Director Jon M. Chu doesn’t exactly have the most impressive string of credits to his name — we’re talking Step Up 2: The Streets, GI Joe: Retaliation, and Now You See Me 2. But based on the first trailer for Crazy Rich Asians, fans of Kevin Kwan’s book, which explores the absurd lifestyles of Asia’s ultra-privileged, won’t be disappointed in Chu’s treatment.
Watch it here:
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