The thing is: a good drama for me doesn't need to be filled with moments that will make you suffer with the characters and it can't be that foreseeable. And You're Beautiful it's just this. You can fully understand the depth of the characters within some episodes, and if you try to take a guess on what they will do next, probably you'll be right.
There's no need to keep hammering a single point in the story, and still, they do this all the time. At one point, I got tired of gritting my teeth and screaming to the screen, cause I had already seen what was happening another billion times. It's repetitive, and even though I've kept rooting for one specific character, I knew since the beginning he wasn't going to get the ending I wanted, because, once again, the story is foreseeable.
The plot was a good one to work with - it never was supposed to be a deep story, but it could be better than what we had. The drama could be finished with only ten episodes, excluding unnecessary and dull interactions between the characters and mysteries that aren't really that mysterious. The music is ok, the few tracks we have are good, but I find myself really annoyed by the fact that, one, it seems like we only have five songs along the whole drama (and three of them are different versions of the same track), and two, why do they put such a tense instrumental in moments that doesn't have the need to it?
The best point for me is the acting - all the actors besides Park Shin Hye did a fairly good job. I kept wondering, why does she represents like this in this drama? I mean, Heartstrings was ok, Heirs too, and Pinocchio is her best drama without doubts, but her acting in You Are Beautiful annoys me so much. I don't find it cute, neither funny, nor girly. It's just annoying and the scenes I liked the most were the ones she wasn't trying so hard (episode 12, the greenhouse part, is one of my very few examples). Maybe she matured since then, and for me this one is her worst drama.
I can't say the drama isn't funny. It was one of the few things that saved it for me. I laughed so hard in some parts that it wasn't all lost. And if I ignored the existence of two of the three main male characters while Go Minam was interacting with one of them, I could go through the scene without any unneeded anger. It was silly, and sometimes fun, but not my piece of cake.
All in all, I would never rewatch it, but if you like silly thingies (and amorous triangles), if you're bored and want something to entertain yourself a little bit (only until the very first cringeworthy moment), you may want to give You Are Beautiful a try.
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Story: 8/10
The characters and actors did a really good job. The only character that seemed flimsy was male female lead. Ugh, so much aegyo. You get over it. Everyone else was really good. I enjoyed the witchy-ness from the lead antagonist.
Characters/actors 9/10
Music was outstanding. It will get stuck inside of your head. Awesome. Loved it.
Music 10/10
Rewatch? I wouldnt. Not because its bad, but because I don't rewatch.
Overall 8/10
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This drama is likeable, funny, at some points silly and moves at a quick pace. Sometimes with dramas like this I find that I skip parts because the storyline isn't moving quick enough. However with this drama I wanted to watch every bit because it well written and there is always something interesting happening.
The acting in this is amazing. The characters I was supposed to hate, I hated and the characters I was supposed to love, I loved!So they're all doing their jobs properly! Jeremy was by far my favourite character, as he was totally hilarious. I bet that you will love the characters too. I can't find a fault with the acting.
The music was also brilliant, which is especially important in this drama as it is focused in the music industry. I was bopping along with the songs, and by the end of it I had even started to sing along!
The only negative (Which isn't really that negative) about You're Beautiful is the love triangle. It's one of those ones where you want the girl to be with all of the guys and not to have to chose one. This drama certainly plays with your feelings and I was shouting at the screen at points. Trying to get the girl to with a different guy, but then when I thought about it, I decided that all of her options were good. I wouldn't be able to choose.
However the love triangle would make it hard to rewatch this, because once you've watched it, you know who she ends up with. But I would watch again for the funny moments!
Overall a brilliant drama, well worth watching. Plenty of eye-candy, drama and good music.
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While I liked the concept of the genderbend plot and the way it was used, I felt like sometimes it tried to be too "draggy" and some situations were questionable. Why?
1. Go Mi Nyu's being a "nun in-training" didn't manage to excuse her overall Marry Sue-ish dullness. I understand up to innocence, naivety and inexperience, but a naive and innocent person doesn't particularly also need to be dull. Sure, I can believe it up to the point she believes all of what she is told and is easily manipulated (which was a pretty funny element and lead to interesting situations in her case, actually), but I can't forgive her lack of deduction and connection skills where "information" is served to her on a silver plater. I found it an incoherence in her character to be able to "read" between the lines in certain situations, but not in others, maybe more important ones.
2. Go Mi Nam's character. Despite him being the cause and trigger of all the following situations presented in the drama and he presumably cares a lot for his twin sister, I found it disappointing that he never made a "proper" appereance where we actually could have been able to figure out what he thought and where he stands.
3. Shin Woo's relationship with Go Mi Nyu. While I do like Shin Woo's character, I never got an actual "genuine" feeling from his relationship with Go Mi Nyu. I kept feeling that he was getting "used" throghout all the drama to trigger certain events or simply to make us feel sorry for him... Which.. wasn't very nice thing to do...i don't think Shin Woo got a very big character development, which is a real shame. (Yonghwa FTW though)
4. While definitely part of the comedy and it was hilarious most of the time, Tae Kyung's self centered attitude was also often annoying (exclusively) in the last part of the show, simply because the situation didn't require his sassiness.
5. Most of the scenes in the last 2 episodes felt "useless". I did really appreciate it's attempt to close up all unresolved issues, however, but I didnt find necessary the whole dramatic dispute between the main pairing of the show. BUT, in the end I was able to forgive it because the last 10 minutes of episode 16 made me fall into a deep case of giggling and fangirling. *wink wink*
Now the good parts ! As I said before, "You're Beautiful" offers a type of comedy that can't possibly not make you end up giggling in a corner, but it's also not only about that, It has an involving plot regarding other serious issues too, how kpop idols live and maybe a bit of reality on kpop fanclubs and how idols have to deal with the reporters, which was a very nice inthrough.
Character wise, Tae Kyung definitely got the most character development, and I never imagined it any other way around. It's funny now when looking back to the first few episodes. While I did complain a bit about Shin Woo, however, I do consider Jeremy also had his share of development, despite being a comic relief, and was able to provide us with his own moment of "maturity". The side cast was also extremely enjoyable for their roles.
The cast was great. Excepting when Park Shin Hye seemed to have ler legs tied when walking, I don't even know who even came with the idea of making her walk like that...xD but even she did a good job on portraying what she needed to portray. And I always remain fascinated by her sobbing skills at least in this drama. Jang Geun Suk's acting was probably my main source of entertaining alongside Hongki's. JGS's evil smirks and jealous sulky expressions and Hongki's laughs and weirded out, desperate faces made me not able to look at them without cracking a smile. I don't really know what to say about UEE, but she was good enough to make me believe in her He Yi's "bitchie" attitude.
The OST is amazing. enough said.
And my final vote is 8.5. I would have really wanted to give it more, but because of those things above that quite bothered me in the end I couldn't be THAT biased and lean towards the 9. But 8.5 is still a pretty good rating ! I recommend it to everybody, or at least all of you who like romantic comedies or are into "otome games". You'll understand what I mean, after you watch. *wink wink*
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In Short: Fun situational comedy, but the heroine in this drama is far too idiotic for my taste. The boys are great though.
Pros: Fun and silly premise. The boys are great, though the idol house seems unrealistically great.
Cons: Super-idiot female lead who constantly speaks formally to everyone. Does not get less annoying with time.
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The story is far from original, but good classics can shine anew if put into the right light. That's not the case here. The plot is dragging like a snail through all 16 series, becoming just a little bit more lively in the 15th episode. The girl makes big eyes for the boy she likes, he insults her, he is rude to her, but all she does - follows him clumsily stumbling on every step and talking like a 5-year old. Oh, yeah, she cries a lot too.
The acting is terrible. I don't think I can remember anything so disgusting as the acting of the main leads. It is even more amazing, because I saw Park Shin Hye in many other dramas and know that she is a very decent actress. The male always showing strange grimaces when talking to the girl he likes and all other people around him, talks to himself a lot asking various rhetorical questions or elaborating what he thought at this or that point. The same goes for the heroine. The heroine is just so week-headed and feeble-minded that I'm not sure whether I was more anoyed by her, or pitied her. Jeremy was a bit off sometimes, but he at least can be taken for a lively character. Shin-woo was the best among them to my mind.
The only not so bad thing here was music, but to my taste there was not enough variety, so the main song became threadbare by the end of the drama.
All in all the drama has 0 rewatch value to me. The Japanese version is so much better, though it also has its negative sides. I would not recommend it to anyone who likes logical and thought-out relationships and deeds, deep emotions without trickly sentiments, an interesting male lead or a decent heroine who has at least a little bit of her own judgement.
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Good and different characters structure but you can't see so much development in their personality features as the story goes on and on ! Anyways , You'll enjoy this drama ! Be sure of that !
STORY (6/10) : The whole idea is fun , lovely and different but NOT LOGICAL at many points ! A girlish girl enters a band of 3 boys as a BOY ! I know for asians it's mostly easy to change their facial gender but what about her VOICE ???! I mean it must be pretty easy for singers and musicians to tell the difference between male's and female's voice (It's pretty easy for everyone though!) and It wasn't at all like that PSH has a boyish or rough voice or even boyish behaviour as a girl who used to be a NUN! Don't get me wrong I don't say I'm totally against this story ! Disney's MULAN is my most favorite classic animation , you know :D AND ALSO Mrs. Hong , the screenwriter is someone I admire so much !
ACTING (8/10) : GREAT ! I loved the actings so much ! I think all the main roles did their best with their characters ! They could easily touch your heart and play with your feelings and make you cry and laugh with them !
STILL , I wish I could see more of their characters development !
MUSIC (8/10) : Unlike many others (You're Beautiful) is NOT my first K-drama but It's my first Korean Musical drama ! What do we want from a musical drama at the first point ?! right ! MUSIC ! this drama had pretty good soundtracks but not enough live musics playing ! At first you can see some , but as the story gets more and more involved with the love triangle (or maybe love square, lol !) between the main roles ... it seems they're forgetting thier passion for music , as mucisians ! BUT let me confess something ! Both PSH and JGS were great as actors who are trying to sing ! I loved thier singing I wish I could see more of that in the drama !
REWATCH VALUE (7/10) : Most of the things happen in this drama are very predictable ! But what I didn't like at all about it might be the ending which is a copy conference of what happened in the movie (Do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-si-do) ! I was really shocked of seeing the exact same scene , seriously !
Despite many things This drama is very enjoyable and funny to watch ! cool and friendly athmosphere ! Sweet teenage-like romance story involved with some good music and funny moments !
Final word : reviewing is mostly about comparing ! So nothing is 100% in this world as well as this review ,It's only written comparing with other dramas/movies and it's rated toward my other ratings for other worse or better dramas/movies !
Thanks for reading my words ! Bye ^_^
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I thought Park Shin Hye was good as Go MiNam. She's just very likable. I didn't quite understand what she was doing towards the end but that's the writer's. The members of A.N.Jell were great. I LOVED Jeremy! His character was so happy and energetic all the time. And ShinWoo reminded me so much of JiHoo from BOF, it's not even funny. They are basically the same character and even look very similar (in my opinion). I was definitely rooting for him through the whole drama. TaeKyung was also a good character and Jang Geun Seok did a good job playing him. Yoo He Yi was a very good actress but I HATED everything about her character, Uee. She played her well, which is probably why I hated her so much.
I'll admit, I wasn't completely satisfied with the ending but despite that, it was definitely a good watch. I would probably rewatch this over time. I really liked it.
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Light. Funny.
Pointless.
Don't get me wrong, I loved this drama as much as everyone else. It made me laugh and cry, but at the end of it I was left with one question: What was the point?
You're beautiful is a light, breezy watch. There's pretty much nothing in this drama that sends a message that we haven't heard before. It doesn't make you view life in a different way, or even impart some meaningful knowledge. Nope. Just 16 episodes full of craziness.
That doesn't necessarily make this drama bad, however. "You're Beautiful" is hardly forgettable. A nun-in-training winds up pretending to be a boy to sing in a pop group? Have you ever heard of something this crazy going on?
Acting: The acting here was sort of "meh". Park Shin Hye and Jang Geun Suk fit their roles well enough, but the rest of the cast was sort of borderline. They worked well enough with their roles, it's just that some actors left something to be desired. It's not a major thing- the acting is decent, just sort of... meh.
As for rewatching, I'd just watch it for the comedic moments. That's pretty much all there is to "You're Beautiful". Comedy with a few random shots at a more serious tone.
Overall, this drama was light, funny and adorable. It's the perfect drama to watch with family, but not my favorite. It's a nice watch to recover from heavier dramas.
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