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Listening to: The Glenn Miller Orchestra - In The Mood
It's a long weekend! To celebrate, we decided to watch yet another movie haha. This time round:
Swing Girls (2004)
From the producer and director of 2002's Waterboys comes a hilarious comedy about a class of Japanese high school girls who are taking a summer remedial class in Maths. Wanting to skip the classes, protagonist Tomoko (Juri Ueno) devises a plan which goes dreadfully wrong, resulting in all the girls ending up in the countryside, and giving all but one of the high school brass band members food poisoning!
Here are the girls all looking very happy (and carrying the bento [lunchboxes] which they were supposed to deliver to the brass band). Tomoko is the girl on the right in the front row! I think she's pretty cute and very, very funny. :D
As events develop, four of the girls (as well as the lone brass band member who wasn't poisoned) find that they have developed an affinity for big band music, and decide to form the Swing Girls (and a boy)! Problem is: they are really, really bad and have no money to buy instruments. And so they find ways and means to earn cash, which produces some disastrous and spectacular results.
I must mention this particular scene pictured above, when the four girls and a guy (plus a J-rock bassist girl and guitarist girl lol) are practising their songs in a KTV room, wahahahaha! XD
The film culminates in a band competition which the Swing Girls (now joined by the rest of their class, who sold their LV and Gucci stuff to buy brand new instruments heheh) competes in. The songs they play are big band standards like "In The Mood" and "Moonlight Serenade"... really cool stuff ;)
There are so many plus points to mention: for instance, the scenery is beautiful, from the beginning of summer in the Japanese countryside to the film's ending in winter. And have I mentioned that this is a really funny movie?
But I guess the best part has to be the music. As I've mentioned before, I haven't seen a film about music that I didn't like... and this is no exception! The only difference: everyone plays their own instruments! Watch how the girls improved from being unable to make a sound on their reeds to becoming a tight, funky big band ensemble. Please go catch this one, I guarantee you will leave the cinema with a smile on your face, and "In The Mood" stuck in your head. ;)
Visit the film website here.
Lester's rating: 4.5/5 stars!
Listening to: The Glenn Miller Orchestra - In The Mood
It's a long weekend! To celebrate, we decided to watch yet another movie haha. This time round:
Swing Girls (2004)
From the producer and director of 2002's Waterboys comes a hilarious comedy about a class of Japanese high school girls who are taking a summer remedial class in Maths. Wanting to skip the classes, protagonist Tomoko (Juri Ueno) devises a plan which goes dreadfully wrong, resulting in all the girls ending up in the countryside, and giving all but one of the high school brass band members food poisoning!
Here are the girls all looking very happy (and carrying the bento [lunchboxes] which they were supposed to deliver to the brass band). Tomoko is the girl on the right in the front row! I think she's pretty cute and very, very funny. :D
As events develop, four of the girls (as well as the lone brass band member who wasn't poisoned) find that they have developed an affinity for big band music, and decide to form the Swing Girls (and a boy)! Problem is: they are really, really bad and have no money to buy instruments. And so they find ways and means to earn cash, which produces some disastrous and spectacular results.
I must mention this particular scene pictured above, when the four girls and a guy (plus a J-rock bassist girl and guitarist girl lol) are practising their songs in a KTV room, wahahahaha! XD
The film culminates in a band competition which the Swing Girls (now joined by the rest of their class, who sold their LV and Gucci stuff to buy brand new instruments heheh) competes in. The songs they play are big band standards like "In The Mood" and "Moonlight Serenade"... really cool stuff ;)
There are so many plus points to mention: for instance, the scenery is beautiful, from the beginning of summer in the Japanese countryside to the film's ending in winter. And have I mentioned that this is a really funny movie?
But I guess the best part has to be the music. As I've mentioned before, I haven't seen a film about music that I didn't like... and this is no exception! The only difference: everyone plays their own instruments! Watch how the girls improved from being unable to make a sound on their reeds to becoming a tight, funky big band ensemble. Please go catch this one, I guarantee you will leave the cinema with a smile on your face, and "In The Mood" stuck in your head. ;)
Visit the film website here.
Lester's rating: 4.5/5 stars!
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