In the early going it appears likely that Lee Jae-Yong’s adaptation of popular online comic Dasepo Naughty Girls might just do the impossible and dethrone Yudai Tamaguchi’s Cromartie High School in the absurdly hysterical high school comedy department.
Shot with a candy coated color scheme and leaping from a song and dance number featuring a fetching swarm of pink clad go-go dancers to a mass exodus for the doctor’s office on news that a teacher has tested positive for syphilis to clandestine video game prostitution to … well, you get the picture.
Dasepo Naughty Girls begins as a rapid fire candy fluff spin on high school life that is every bit as absurd, high energy and sketch oriented as Yamaguchi’s Cromartie, only this film boasts much higher production values. But Korea just wouldn’t be Korea if its films followed their expected arcs and over the course of its run time Dasepo finds an unexpected heart, moving from full throttle comedy with fluorishes of character to an odd little character piece sprinkled liberally with bizarrely comic touches.
It is a cheery, good natured bit of work considerably less Naughty than you’d expect from a film featuring liberal doses of both transvestite and transexual characters – ’saucy’ would be a better description – and more than a little different than you may expect but it is, nonetheless, a very good time. I just wish those go-go dancers got more screen time.
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