But Young-Joon now have to return to Gyeongju, send by his boss, to take over a small bar owned by Chun-Soo, a completely mad owner who is not interested at all by the offer of the Gil-Nam gang. One night, Young-Joon and Gi-Dong paths cross again. Taking advantage of this special encounter, they will take the time to talk to each other and eventually become very good friends. But their destiny will strike again and one night they will meet Kim, beautiful spirited women, owner of a small local restaurant. From that night, they will forget their friendship and declare war to each other and the winner will take Kim as the prize. But both men will also have to deal and overcome their personal problems while fighting for the women of their dreams.

Review: Comedy is to Korea as kung Fu is to Hong Kong and Psychological Horror to Japan. Who can deny the fact that Korean comedies are the best Asian comedies of all? I mean, in general of course. Maybe the sole reason is because their humor is very international and can be appreciated by almost everyone. Most Korean comedies that I have seen have become well directed and perfectly executed. After seeing Attack The Gas Station a few years ago and considering one of the best Korean comedies ever, I waited impatiently for the next movie directed by Kim Sang-Jin. We can easily compare Kick the Moon to Attack The Gas station, but not because they share the same director and a lot the same cast, but because the concept is exactly the same. You take a very simple story, but because of the chain of evens, the story becomes more and more chaotic for the characters to a point that you just can't stop laughing at the situation the characters have gotten into. But while Attack the Gas station centers around one night and in one place, Kick The moon is spread during multiple weeks and uses a whole city to tell his story.

It's true that the premise of the story is not that original, but how many movies have been made around the concept of two guys fighting for a woman? Probably a hundred times. But what is so special about this one is how the completely unexpected chain of evens will affect, evolve and connect the characters in the story. You will see how a simple decision can change the destiny of the others. I never had the feeling that the production rushed the story and that's a good thing. Because in this type of movie, I usually found that too often they overwhelm you with too many thing happening at the same time and too fast and the connection are sometimes not clear enough. The story is very well structured and easy to follow, but I cannot hide the fact that a second viewing will make the movie more clarified.

The main problem with Kick the Moon is probably with the characters. Not because the acting was not good or the characters uninteresting, but because there are many important characters in the film that you have to follow. It's true that the story focuses more on the two friends and the girl they fight for, but there are also a lot of secondary characters that you cannot just ignore or just consider as background because if you do, then you will probably be completely lost in the story. How can I not remember the old policeman and his wallet, the traitor who prefers to be with the strongest boss or even the geek who likes to spy on the other students? It is these characters that will influence the story and will share the evolution of the three main characters. It was very funny to watch those completely unexpected situations and that evolves and changes to something that they were not aware of at first.

As for the three main casts, I really think that they were all excellent. At first, I was thinking that I would probably end up liking more Lee Sung-Jae, who played the baseball guy in Attack the Gas Station, but during the course of the movie I felt more sympathy for Cha Seung-Won, the high school teacher. But I think that it's only a matter of personal taste and I think that everyone could identify themselves to one of the three main casts.

Korean humor is probably the most accessible Asian humor out there, probably to the fact that Korean humor can be slightly compared to North American humor, unlike Hong Kong or Japanese humor that I found very typical to these countries. I'm not saying that I don't like the subtle humor of the Japanese and the slapstick style of Hong Kong, it's just that I think that Korean humor is more situational and you don't need to know the Korean culture that much to really appreciate their humor. Their humor is very physical and situational while always staying on a realistic level. If you never saw a Korean movie, I suggest a comedy. Like I said, Koreans are the best comedy makers in the international movie industry and Kick the moon is again a fine example at that. But even if there's a lot of unexpected and very funny moment in the movie, there is also a love story and this is were the movie might lose some people. Like in all love movies, you have these dramatic scenes where the characters try to tell their feelings to the ones they love, but still some of these situations contain some humor or happen in a funny way, but I know that some people might not like it. I would not say that this is a chick only movie, not at all, but there are some elements in the movie that will probably appeal more to a female audience. But don't make this an excuse for not seeing this movie because you'll be missing out.