Review | Forbidden Fairytale movie review: Korean sex comedy with Park Ji-hyun is too prudish
Park Ji-hyun plays a youth protection officer who starts writing pornography to pay for car repairs in this non-risqué erotic comedy
2/5 stars
In this bubbly and lighthearted Korean romantic comedy from director Lee Jong-suk (The Negotiation), Park plays Dan-bi, who works for the government’s Youth Protection Team reviewing an endless stream of hard-core pornography.
By night, she dreams of following in her late father’s footsteps by writing wholesome children’s fairy tales.
Following a traffic altercation in which she damages a publisher’s vintage car, Dan-bi is cajoled into penning sexually explicit adult fiction to pay for the repairs, and inadvertently becomes an overnight sensation.
Forbidden Fairytale wields its amusing premise with plenty of enthusiasm. It is also crammed with so many wild subplots and side characters that it might have worked better as a K-drama series, where its tangle of convoluted ideas could have been fleshed out more coherently.