Cyrano Dating Agency Review

Title: Cyrano Dating Agency

AKA: Dating Agency: Cyrano

Genre: Romance, Comedy

Episodes: 16

Broadcast period: 2013-May to 2013-Jul

Cast: Lee Jong Hyuk, Choi Soo Young, Lee Chun Hee, Hong Jong Hyun and Jo Yoo Woo.

Believing in true love and ultimate romance Gong Min Young (Choi Soo Young) works at a dating agency that puts people in classes, then setting them up for blind dates. When one of her clients, a low class, asks Min Young for a favor: to set him up with a top class girl, Min Young isn’t sure due to the agency’s policy. The policy says that a top class can’t date a low class, but after being persuaded by the client she agrees. After setting them up in a restaurant, thing start smoothly until the top class confesses to a waiter out of the blue. Bummed by the failed love mission, she by accident sees a surveillance set-up inside a van, and meets the owner, but stumbles and passes out. She wakes up inside a closed theater, and meets the three men of Cyrano Dating Agency who helped the waiter getting the top class girl: Seo Byung Hoon (Lee Jong Hyuk) the owner and a former famous producer, Moo Jin (Hong Jong Hyun) a genius computer engineer, and Ah Rang (Jo Yoo Woo) a stage artist student. Confused, yet curious about their work, and when she is offered a job in the agency she can’t help but being interested.

Next to the theater, a restaurant owner named Cha Seung Pyo (Lee Chun Hee) with a mysterious personality and background seems to have an intense interest in the theater and Seo Byung Hoon, and for some reason starts to find an interests in Min Young…

I didn’t expect to like it this much, but it was very good and very interesting. It wasn’t as stuffy and draggy as I was expecting, which might be because there were many side love stories, which were also very romantic and heartfelt. I’m not a fan of either Soo Young or Lee Jong Hyuk, but I found them very cute and very good at acting. Also Jong Hyun, Chun Hee and Yoo Woo were great, but I have to admit that cameos were great, every single one of them. So I enjoyed it, a lot.

Recommendable!

☆☆☆☆ / 4 out of 5 stars

♥♥♥♥ / 4 out of 5 stars

Cyrano Agency Movie Review

Title: Cyrano Agency

AKA: Cyrano Dating Agency

Genre: Romance, Comedy

Origin: Korea

Release date:  September 16 2010

Cast: Uhm Tae Woong, Lee Min Jung, Choi Daniel and Park Shin Hye.

When their theater is about to fall deeper in debt Lee Byung Hun (Uhm Tae Woong) and his friends start a matchmaking agency that help guys make their girlfriends fall in love with them. With their motto “Making her fall in love with you in top secret”, the four have a 99% success rate and take on every client there is.

One day they get visited by a man named Sang Yong (Choi Daniel), who wants their help in making Hee Joong (Lee Min Jung) fall in love with him, Hee Joong happens to be Byung Hun’s ex. In the beginning he tries everything to turn this client down, by making their service expensive or trying to ruin the operations, but is eventually forced to do it. Slowly things between Sang Yong and Hee Joong are getting better, but then Byung Hun starts to get his personal feeling mixed with business..

It’s started out very well, but somewhere along the line the movie just became less interesting and way too common. The director probably thought it would be a ‘different’ way of ending the movie that way, but it just made the entire movie longer and much more pathetic, not that it started out like that though. Every actor was great, and every character was very well portrayed, though they aren’t very well written - like not as deep as hoped. Lastly the couples were trying to create chemistry, but the scripts just didn’t let them. It was too pretend-like happy and lovely, it just became halfhearted. It’s not bad, I just suddenly became  depressed, and disappointed.

☆☆☆½ / 3½ out of 5 stars

♥♥♥ / 3 out of 5 hearts