Review | Netflix movie review: My Boo – Thai romantic comedy sees gamer falls for beautiful ghost
Starring Sutthirak ‘Gee’ Subvijitra and Maylada Susri (Bow), My Boo is best as an unabashed romance as much of the humour misses the mark
3/5 stars
Finding your one true love is challenging enough at the best of times, but borders on the impossible when one of you is dead. This is the central challenge facing the protagonists of My Boo, a new romantic horror comedy from My Girl director Khomkrit Treewimol.
Sutthirak “Gee” Subvijitra stars as a young entrepreneur who inherits a haunted house, while Maylada Susri, aka Bow, plays the beautiful ghost he falls in love with.
While the film stakes its claim to a number of different genres, it proves most successful as an unabashed romance, while much of the humour fails to hit home.
Joe (Gee) is an online gamer struggling to make ends meet when his wealthy grandfather dies and he inherits a dilapidated property, which he soon learns is home to a trio of mischievous spooks.
Anong (Bow) was the daughter of a local official, who disappeared, along with her two servants (played by Chaleumpol Tikumpornteerawong and Thatchaya Supathanyasatit), almost 100 years earlier.
