The Tailor

This movie is an unholy hybrid of 'Back to the Future' crossed with 'The Devil Wore Prada'. Unfortunately, that may make it sound more interesting than it really is. Our lead is the heiress to a leading fashion house in Saigon, which specializes in the traditional Vietnamese dresses, the Ao Dai. But she is a spoiled brat who wants to imitate Western fashions. She is magically thrown into 2017, where her family business is long gone, and her own rebellious fashion ideas are now passé.

If you're a fan of Hong Kong comedies of the 1990s, you may like this movie a lot better than I did. Overacting, exaggerated physical movements, one dimensional characters, this movie shovels it on. It got a little less dire after the jump to 2017, but it never got actually good.

For me, a bizarre aspect of the film is how it pretends there was no history going on. No mention of the Vietnamese War at all. No Communism. For instance, at one point, the characters specifically talk about Saigon in 1975, and there was no mention of the fall of Saigon. I guess fashion is just a world apart from the one in which the rest of us live.