Crazy Rich Asians

A couple splits dessert at a New York cafe: Social media intervenes, and before the happy couple has even paid their bill, all of Southeast Asia seems to know that Nick Young (Golding), the favorite son of a Singapore family dynasty, is bringing his ABC girlfriend Rachel Chu (Wu from ABC’s Fresh off the Boat) home to meet Mom (Yeoh, luminous, and lethal), who starts firing icy glares at this interloper for nabbing her son, Singapore’s most coveted bachelor. Crazy Rich Asians may be steeped in Asian cultures, but it satisfies that very American pastime of simultaneously deriding and ogling the conspicuous consumption of the one-percent, and it gets some wickedly funny jabs in at the fabulously wealthy. But it isn’t mean-spirited. Rather, Crazy Rich Asians’ prevailing mood is one of joyfulness.