“The brightest star…”- A You’re Beautiful Review

Originalname:	미남이시네요 | Minamyisinyeoyo
Also known as:	He's Beautiful!/ A.N.Jell
Release Date:	7. October - 26. November 2009
Director:	Hong Sung Chang
Writer:	Hong Jeong Eun, Hong Mi Ran
Cast:	Park Shin Hye, Jang Geun Suk, Lee Hong Ki, Jung Yong Hwa, Uee

Plot

Our story starts in a convent, where the nun-in-training Go Mi Nyeo lives and works to serve The Lord. She’s preparing to go to Vatican City to become a real nun and she also has a twin brother called Go Min Nam. He wants to become a famous singer because he wants to find their mom.

One day he gets the chance to become a member of the popular boyband A.N.JELL. But unfortunately he stuck in America because of a plastic surgery gone wrong.

And that’s when Go Mi Nyeo steps in. Go Min Nam’s manager asks her to be her brother’s double for a month and so she enters the glamorous life of a boyband member as a man.

The boyband contains stubborn Tae Kyung, gentle Shin Woo and last but not least funny Jeremy. The other members were mostly fine with the fact of someone else joining them, but Tae Kyung needed some persuation. But Go Mi Nyeo can sing like an angel so everything is fine at first.

In the first night however she gets drunk at her welcome party and Shin Woo accidently hugging her discovers she’s in fact a girl. Go Mi Nyeo being drunk decides that it’s time to reach out for the stars. That goes wrong and she falls on Tae Kyung and ends up kissing him. Since she’s drunk that kiss end very gross…(Believe me; you don’t want to know.)

As you already know our bandleader doesn’t like Go Mi Nyeo very much. So he wants her immediately out when he discovers that she’s a girl. (How he discovers it is so hilarious!) Their talk is overheard by Jeremy, who now thinks Go Mi Nyeo is gay. Anyway, she manages to stay within the band because… well, that’s a long story which involves a truck and epic manly running.

The story goes on and we get to know Yoo He Yi, who basically is our everyday bitch (nice in front of the world but a horrible person inside). Tae Kyung learns of this very quickly and finds himself in a fake relationship with her to protect Go Mi Nyeos identity.

Go Mi Nyeo, however, finds herself more and more falling in love with Tae Kyung and on the other hand Shin Woo falls more and more for Go Mi Nyeo. Yoo He Yi falls for Tae Kyung, who can’t arrange his feelings towards Go Mi Nyeo. (Dear god! Of course he loves her!!) And Jeremy starts also falling for Go Mi Nyeo.  So we have like a love- quintet…

So eventually the other group members get to know that Go Mi Nyeo is a girl. And especially Jeremy is relieved. (“Yess! I’m not gay!”)

Well, afterwards they keep hiding her identity to the outside, but for Go Mi Nyeo  the pressure not to reveal her feelings to Tae Kyung has highly increased. Although everybody thinks she felt in love with Shin Woo, except himself.

After a lot “who will she choose”- moments and sentence “I like you” which came out of Tae Kyung, the day of Go Min Nams return comes nearer. To settle the switch right, A.N.JELL goes to Japan to make some vacations. Shin Woo tries here a last time to win Go Mi Nyeo’s heart but he knows that her heart belongs to Tae Kyung. So we have even more drama ahead us as the boyband bids their last farewell to Go Mi Nyeo (She’ going to stay in Japan for awhile) without Tae Kyung, who left earlier.

Everything goes smoothly as they meet Go Min Nam at the right time on the airport, when they get back.

So we skip some time and we get to know that Tae Kyung and Yoo He Yi broke up and that Go Min Nam is interested in her. Also Go Mi Nyeo has left them a message, that she was fine. Tae Kyung gets angry and goes to search for her. She was found by the manager and because off an incident Go Mi Nyeo has to play again her brother for one day. At dinner with A.N.JELL the members find out that it is the sister and not the brother. She gets drunk again and in the next morning she gets an invitation and a ticket for the evening’s concert of A.N.JELL.

In the evening Tae Kyung finds out that she’s in the concert hall. So he knows it’s his last chance to see her before she leaves for Africa. He sings a song which was written by her dead father and after that it follows a very dramatic speech, but he can’t find her because the stage lights are too bright. So Shin Woo, being the white knight once again, tells the guys to turn off the stage lights and put the audience light on instead. So Tae Kyung finds her and embraces her. The drama ends on the balcony of the bands dorm with both of them talking and gazing to the stars.

Conclusion

My sister and me loved that drama although there were some things that were just silly or pretty much terrifying. For example I don’t know why she chose Tae Kyung and not Shin Woo or Jeremy. I mean, he was trying to kill her. And I think actually he was never nice to her. He always ordered her around. Actually, the only nice thing, he ever said to her, was: “I like you”.

Let’s talk a little bit about Shin Woo. He is such a Prince Charming. Like I said before, he’s the white knight. He’s always there to lend his shoulders when Go Mi Nyeo cries because of Tae Kyung. But he sadly didn’t get much character development. Even when he wants to be a bad boy, he can’t. He remains to be good and gentle.  And that will really piss you off. You just think: “How much of a masochist can one be!!” He tried it like a billion times, he even says it in Japan when he hugs her and she again refuses him, that he’s used to it since she abandoned him so many times.

Jeremy is by far my favourite character. I even started the drama because I knew Hong Ki was playing him. He was so adorable trying not to fall in love with Go Mi Nyeo. He was the comic relieve character and he even cheered Go Mi Nyeo up more than anyone else in the group. But sadly that seemed to be his only purpose. So when he suddenly got serious because of his love to Go Mi Nyeo, he got back to happy too fast. (And that was not because of Hong Ki acting skills. They’re good.) So the audience could only guess how heartbroken he was. (I would suggest very heartbroken.) As soon as this episode ended we didn’t see much of him anymore. He totally got lost in the writing. I would’ve loved to see him more.

Go Mi Nyeo is the character of the good girl. So she’s just the girl you want to fall in love with. She’s so cute and innocent. It’s hard to believe that she has a brother who wants to become a famous singer. Sometime because of the way she behaves (doesn’t know the Korean idols at the moment, doesn’t know about astronomy, etc.) I asked myself “Is she from this century?” The Becoming-A-Nun- Excuse doesn’t count. I know some who studied Theology to become a priest and they know such things like who are on the top of the music charts and so on. And besides, sometimes she acted really cruel if you consider the way she talks with Shin Woo. You can literary imagine how she rips out his heart and dances Flamenco on it and this again and again and again. Did she really not know about how to act at opposite gender’s present? We know from the episodes she attended a mixed gender school together with her brother.

So, in the end this was, like I said before, this was a very amusing ride through Asian Drama. All the clichés were there so were all the faults. Does it make a bad drama? NEVER! It was great if you like Asian Drama. In the end it felt really complete. They didn’t do any twists that felt out of the plot.
The actors were surprisingly good. I want to point out Yong Hwa who played Shin Woo. This was his debut as an actor and he did very well. Another good performance was given by Uee who played Yoo He Yi. You really hated her character and that isn’t as easy as it sounds. (trust me, I know it)

There isn’t much left to say except: Go see it! Trust me, you’ll find something to enjoy.

See you soon at my next review!!