American Fusion

MOVIE #1,041 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 06.29.23 WELL, HONG? • CHAPTER 3 Here it is (see below) in all its wackadoodle glory: Hong’s only scene in this hard to find ‘05 comedy (I had to rent it on Amazon for $4.25 lol). In and out (and stoned out of his mind) in under 90 seconds. American Fusion had to crawl so that Crazy Rich Asians could walk? No can’t print that… Moving on. I actually was mildly into this one for the first act or so. The humor was pretty broad and weird (as you can see from the above “sea otter nipples” riff + look at that movie poster!). But it descended into sappy schlock unfortunately.

Some highlights include:

• An early Randall Park appearance as the son of the lead actress who wishes he was black (he’s legit funny doing AAVE voice)
• All the family’s interactions with the black doctor (played by character actor de jour Tom Wright), especially when they bring him gifts which include a basketball and Popeye’s chicken. (The commentary is obvious but effective: minorities stereotype other minorities just as often)
• Fabio cameo
• Weirdly, character actor Joel McKinnon Miller had a fairly significant scene as a plumber but he is not listed anywhere in the IMDB cast? Hmm.
• And the great Pat Morita, who looks like this for some reason…


It was competent and fairly funny for a little bit… I swear! Oh well.

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If you thought your family was nuts, wait until you meet this Chinese-American clan! Traditional Grandma tries to rule the roost, but her children and grandchildren have ideas of their own. It was released on October 22, 2005.