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Dangerously Excited: Busan Film Review  The Bottom Line
Polished yet uneven music drama is dangerously short on
excitement.   Koo Ja-hong   Yoon Je-moon, Kim Byu  Sophomore
Korean director Koo Ja-hong tells a story of kids trying to live
their pop star dreams.  The transcendent power of music once
again gets its moment in the sun at BIFF. 2010 gave us the
uninspired Acoustic and this year we get the “anti-music” film
Dangerously Excited, ostensibly an antidote to the blind
affection and uplift normally associated with music movies if
sophomore director Koo Ja-hong is to be believed. The film could
play well domestically and in Japan, where audiences take kindly
to stories of kids trying to live their pop star dreams and pop
culture crossover is common. In other territories, the subject
matter, while sometimes appealing, and the cultural
specificities may dampen the already soggy themes.  Dangerously
Excitedhinges on Han Dae-hee (Yoon Je-moon),