A review by ayluwriter
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

2.0

I’m really happy about Asian American representation and the movie Crazy Rich Asians and Constance Wu and Harry Shum Jr (potentially) and all, but...come on. The crazy rich Asians are downright delusional and disgusting one dimensional characters. Rachel and Nick are absolutely Mary Sues. I’m giving one star because you can’t give less than one star and another star for the Asian American perspective it offers. Widens the pool of Asian American literature - not everything has to be literary and deep; we can have soap opera repertoire too. Also because it was interesting to read about the different perspectives of Asian families who had done well for themselves - Constance’s mother, who became a successful real estate agent and has a wonderful relationship with her daughter, Peik Lin’s family being ultra wealthy but still not accepted, and so forth. Favorite character Charlie Wu!!!! Harry Shum Jr represent us in the next movie please!!!