
Ma Chenggang and Chunlan, who have "no oil in their soup and no money in their pockets", ride a donkey to work and have a poor family. Their son Ma Jiye is the only hope who can change their fate.
2h 13m available with multiple audio tracks and subtitles.

Teng Shen
Ma Chenggang

Li Ma
Chunlan

Rina Sa
Grandma

Rina Sa
Teacher Li

Pengyuan Shi
Ma Jiye

Bing Chen
Bookshop Mr. Zhou

Liuyuan Ding
Teacher Ding

Bing Jia
Boss Jia

Nisha Thakur
Aug 31, 2024Education is always a hot topic to talk about in China, and Successor is produced to satirize those parents who crazily want their children to be elite. The purpose of the film wasn't bad, but the plot merely seems to be a mix of good films such as The Truman Show and Hindi Medium. What's more, the act and the scene aren't outstanding. There indeed occurs some funny plot, but that's not special at all. Another drawback is the bad ending. The director doesn't explore the deep emotion of Ma Jiye when he knows the truth that he was cheated by his parents for 18 years, and thus makes it hard for the audience to get what the director want to express. In conclusion, Successor is a quite normal movie but it succeed in China's ticket house thanks to the lack of good film in Chinese market.

kusalbista
Aug 30, 2024Heard this movie amazed many people in China, and thus decided to watch it. The plot is about a rich couples in China, and as the father was raised in poverty, he decided not to let their child know that they are rich (and their first child was not raisen properly). With the help of many staff and teachers, the first period of teaching is deemed to be success. There are also a lot of laughter within. However, when the child grows up and prepared for the examination, he gradually finds that everything is controlled around his life (this one is a bit similar to Truman Show), he wants to find out what is happening around him. Finally he found out what is happening around him and he decided to live in his own way (where this ending is expected). However, the relationship between his so called grandma (actually she is a well known teacher) is good and I even cried in her fake funeral when seeing the reaction of the boy. The story is with a happy ending as he finally enroll into a sports U (although he is qualified for the best U in China) where everyone is happy at last...

Gemima Mbemba
Aug 23, 2024Yes, there are only a few good films about Happy Fried Dough Twists. I thought Happy Fried Dough Twists was going to spoil things, but it turned out to be the best comedy in the first half of the year (last year at the annual meeting). It was not deliberately sensational. The first half of the comedy version of Truman's World was a pure comedy. The plot was very funny, but all the funny points were based on the pain of the second son. There was a homophonic stem that was particularly funny, and probably explained the background. The second half felt a bit fragmented, like a thriller, a horror film about East Asian families, the grandma's body trick. The ending was moral kidnapping, and the eggs were very ironic. I even want to have another one to replace my second son's real suffocation. There are funny points and connotations. Recently, a few pure comedies can give nine points, and one point is for such sensitive subjects.

Ndeshii
Aug 22, 2024Yes, there are only a few good films about Happy Fried Dough Twists. I thought Happy Fried Dough Twists was going to spoil things, but it turned out to be the best comedy in the first half of the year (last year at the annual meeting). It was not deliberately sensational. The first half of the comedy version of Truman's World was a pure comedy. The plot was very funny, but all the funny points were based on the pain of the second son. There was a homophonic stem that was particularly funny, and probably explained the background. The second half felt a bit fragmented, like a thriller, a horror film about East Asian families, the grandma's body trick. The ending was moral kidnapping, and the eggs were very ironic. I even want to have another one to replace my second son's real suffocation. There are funny points and connotations. Recently, a few pure comedies can give nine points, and one point is for such sensitive subjects.