Luckily I saw the korean film first. I saw this on IMDb when i was giving the original film a ten out of ten.GO WATCH THE ORIGINAL FILM!!!!!!!!This film should burn in hell. This director probably found the original films script translated it to English. Then said hey let's make a romance film! I want the director of this film shot through the head for doing this.GO WATCH THE ORIGINAL FILM!!!!!!Don't even waste your time with this film. Like just about every other reviewer said watch the original before you watch this. This just shows you how far the American Romance genre has fallen. It is sad that the director did this.GO WATCH THE ORIGINAL FILM!!!!!!!!In case you didn't see my subliminal messages in this reviewGO WATCH THE ORIGINAL FILM!!!!!!!!GO WATCH THE ORIGINAL FILM!!!!!!!!GO WATCH THE ORIGINAL FILM!!!!!!!!GO WATCH THE ORIGINAL FILM!!!!!!!!

First I have to say I haven't heard or seen the original version, so I'm not making any comparison to that one. "My Sassy Girl" tells a story of a lonely guy which meets an apparently crazy girl on the subway, and in a strange way they get to know each other. Both main characters are portrayed by two great actors, which makes the movie becomes more involving. One thing that called my attention is that I indeed laughed in many scenes, including the hockey one. That's incredible, given that I hardly laugh in a romantic comedy-- I usually find them dumb. Sadly, after the one hour mark it appeals to the old clichés we're tired of. This is why-- and only why-- I don't give it a higher rating. Good romantic comedy indeed.

I loved the Korean original and sincerely wanted to like this remake. But the two physically attractive stars have absolutely no on-screen chemistry and some poorly thought out script changes make for any number of head-scratching moments. To take just one example, in the Korean version the male lead is a lazy, unmotivated college student who by the end of the movie decides he needs to make something out of his life for the sake of the girl. In the remake, the Jesse Bradford character begins the movie with a promising, albeit boring career ahead of him only to see it all sabotaged by his psychotic girlfriend. At the end of the movie he decides to chuck it all for the sake of the girl. Only a little change, I suppose, but it's the difference between two people that are stronger as a couple than apart, vs two people that always seem to delight in reinforcing each other's self-destructive behavior.I simply couldn't root for these two losers to get together. Please take my advice and skip the putrid remake in favor of the Korean version.

Not seeing the original My Sassy Girl, a Korean film from 2001, I appreciated it more than I probably should've. Once in a while, on a weekday, I'll watch a romantic comedy for the hell of it. I'll usually wind up liking it, but sometimes I don't want to watch something very negative and I'll just turn on something uplifting and positive like this film. There isn't much really to hate on a film like this.Basically, you know the story. Guy meets girl, they fall in love, they break up, they get back together. Movie is over. This one decides to tweak the formula just a bit to try and stand out. Charlie Bellow (Bradford) is a high strung up and coming businessman who just wants one thing; to succeed. One day he is in a subway and finds a girl (Cuthbert), drunk out of her mind, who is about to get struck by a train. He pulls her intoxicated self to safety, and chemistry begins.He takes her back home to his friends apartment where they await her recovery. When she finally does, the relationship from the two is a bit rocky, but soon they become closer and closer. That is when both realize they are beginning to fall for each other. Of course the audience has known that since the beginning.Jesse Bradford was also the guy who played the misogynistic jerk in I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell a year later. It's fun seeing him actually fond of girls. Especially after he played such a simple minded character acting on impulse. It's nice to see him appreciate women. Elisha Cuthbert is also a gorgeous, and wonderful add to the film. Neither her or Bradford do anything wrong and their chemistry is believable.It's not hard to get me to like a romantic comedy. If the story is cute, the characters are believable, the dialog is realistic, and it doesn't seem forced it works for me. In the grand scheme My Sassy Girl doesn't stand out, but it's enough to keep you interested. Still, I will go ahead and assume the original is the one worth seeing.Starring: Jesse Bradford and Elisha Cuthbert. Directed by: Yann Samuell.