I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

To satisfy his nagging parents, a gay landlord (Winston Chao) and a female tenant (May Chin) agree to a marriage of convenience, but his parents arrive to visit and things get out of hand.Elisabetta Marino argued that "Lee's creative process and his final choice of two languages, Mandarin Chinese and English, for the movie are in themselves symptomatic of his wish to reach a peaceful coexistence between apparently irreconcilable cultures, without conferring the leading role on either of them." This is interesting, because I found myself not really relying on the subtitles, but seeing the humanity and emotion transcending the language, essentially making this more than a "foreign" film.Marino says the film suggests that there can be a reconciliation between Eastern and western cultures, unlike Amy Tan's novels where the cultural differences are portrayed as irreconcilable. I can certainly see that. At the very least, the gay couple is an Asian-Caucasian mix, and there seems nothing unusual about it. We also see how seamlessly a woman who cannot speak English is married by a justice of the peace... assimilation works!

The gay son of a traditional Taiwanese family Gao Wai Tung (Winston Chao) has never shared the truth about his sexuality and hopes to solve this problem marrying Wei-Wei, a young artist who does only it for the green card. Everything, as usual in comedies, becomes really complicated when the family goes to New York for the wedding. I really liked the view of the Taiwanese culture. I'm from a quite funny and conservative culture too, south Italian. It's nice to see how you can look at traditions which are not yours in a funny perspective while sometimes you find really heavy your own traditions. Ang Lee is a refined director and it was to make a nice romantic comedy out of this subject. The surprising end makes you think that sometimes we create problems which do not really exist. It would be easier for everybody to face problems as soon as possible instead of trying always to run away.

This wonderful work talks more about family than gay-life. it can be separated into 2 parts .the preceding one is full of humor and unrolls the story calmly but not laggardly ,and the latter one would make you heart heavy but without losing hope. Western people maybe can not experience the impotent rejection of young Chinese toward the tumultuous Chinese wedding customs, or understand how devout the filial piety stands in the spirits of every Chinese people. maybe only Chinese can know why Mrs. GAO burst into tears when she heard the engine roaring of the car carrying her son and pregnant daughter-in-law, and why Mr. GAO gave a red-paper-pack of money as a birthday gift to "his another son" Simon after attacked by apoplexy which cause by knowing his son a gay man, and still asked Simon to assist himself in pretending unaware of anything.It's a fabulous movie that makes me watch it again and again and again. when I was still a childlike teenager, I thought Ang Lee's movies were all so boring that i fell in asleep every time. And when I grown a little up and more sensitive but still childish, I found all his films so amazing that I can't help holding tears in my eyes at that moment.

I loved this film - have seen it twice. I totally disagree with one of the messages that it was unsympathetic to the gay community. I think it portrays the gay person as a complete person, with the difficult challenges but also the comical madness a person who lives a 'minority' lifestyle (gay and in an cross cultural and racial relationship). I didn't think the comedic qualities of the film trivialise the magnitude of the issues.I thought Mitchell Lichtenstein was very likable and I thought the challenges of the role in a Taiwanese set-up must have been very significant. The second time I watched the film, I tried seeing things from Simon's (Mitchell's character) perspective and found it a most profound experience.Ang Lee at his best.