Director Nam Yeon-woo's decision to pair an accomplished older actress (Jo Min-soo) with a TV rap star (Cheetah) pays off big time in the wonderfully silly mother-daughter comedy Jazzy Misfits. For while Jo chews up the scenery as a volatile, negligent, alcoholic mother who comes out of the woodwork only after her younger other child (Choi Jisu) robs her of the rent, Cheetah (a.k.a. Kim Eun-young) more than holds her own — outside her effectively deadpan reactions — via extended cuts of her crooning in the nightclub and at the recording studio. As such, these two convey deep emotional realities in different mediums: acting and music.
They're surrounded by a rich cast of characters, too: the mom's former suitor (Jeong Man-sik) who's now a policeman; the local food courier (Terris Brown) who's crushing big time on the singing daughter; and a random white tourist whose unexpected parkour skills hilariously come into play in the movie's best chase scene. With drag queens, lesbian girlfriends, gay tattoo artists, a trans bar owner, a sexy, shirtless downstairs neighbor, and a crewcut Heo Jung-do (from the addictive Kdrama My Demon) as a cheerful sound mixer in over his head, Jazzy Misfits is never anything less than ebulliently screwball.
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