Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Better Late Then Never

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

My first awareness of Brittany Murphy was at her untimely passing. I had seen "Clueless", but really didn't remember it too well. I recently became curious about her and wanted to see something in which she had played the lead. This film was the most positively-rated of her films available on NF streaming at that time. I was somewhat leery - everything about it looked slightly unwatchable, somehow. I had previous positive experience with ramen-centric cinema. As I added "The Ramen Girl" to my NF queue, I fondly recalled one of my all-time very favorites: "Tampopo" (1985). The casting, screenplay, and production values in "The Ramen Girl" are all really very good. What really surprised me is that the film contains an actual connection to Tampopo!Tampopo has at its core a story that also chronicles ramen apprenticeship. The lead in Tampopo is played by Tsutomu Yamazaki, a trucker who happens upon a widow trying to run her late husband's ramen shop. He is tasked to bring her along to mastery in the art of ramen. Grand adventure ensues. (That is the major thread in the film, there are also a few other stories woven into it about food and the way food sits at the center of our lives...)In "The Ramen Girl", the Grand Master (of ramen) eventually comes to town. That part is played by none other than Tsutomu Yamazaki!!! This was a wonderful touchstone for me and made "The Ramen Girl" even more enjoyable. Whether or not you enjoyed "The Ramen Girl", if you have not see "Tampopo" please consider it. (Japanese with English subtitles.) It's absolutely glorious in every way!

It wasn't at all as bad as some have made it out to be. I'm glad I saw it. I've never even heard of it before this morning, as it started I gave it ten minutes to catch me or I was gonna turn on mr. poppers penguins..but I fell right into it n set the DVr to record poppers penguins. It was good n heartwarming. Through the language barrier she gave off that "u can push me,but will never break me""girl with a heart of gold" feeling. She always had that in her acting. She'll be missed :( Oh! N the Japanese love interest- smokin hot! Hot damn! I guess I have to add two extra lines :/ hmm, the movie made me a little hungry for soup! :D I've said all I wanted to say,n by saying that there's my last line! Lol

The Ramen girl is an inspirational movie, which teaches that life sometimes or often when needed, brings us trough strange and unwelcomed roads to reach our true destiny and discover our nature. The protagonist in the movie is a girl, an under-achiever who has never completed anything in her life and has a clingy relationship with her boyfriend who is a software developer in Japan. When he abandon her she fall in pieces but she resist to the temptation to go back to the USA and find solace in a ramen shoo located near her flat. She is so lonely that ask the shop owner to be his apprentice. The owner, who does not speak English, is a tough Japanese man who in his hearth is missing his young son who has left for Europe deciding not too follow the father footsteps. The girl has to endure shouting and abuse and being ridiculed, until she gets the respect of the owner and his clients. Interesting is that the girl is trying to learn to cook ramen in the western way, thinking with the mind, while the owner tries to make her understand that for the perfect ramen broth you need to use your feeling and emotions which are the ingredients that the customer ultimately is buying. Finally the girls become a ramen chief, open her own shop and find the love of her life

If you have seen the Japanese movie "Tampopo" (1985) you'll certainly know what I mean by the slur that I put in my summary.While The Ramen Girl has many a good quality, and Brittany Murphy was an excellent choice for the part as Abby, there was still something missing, or how it was stated on her broth, "it is bland".That in itself is not meant negatively. It simply means that there is not a full-fledged soul.There's plenty of meat both on the bone and in the broth, but still there is something missing. A pinch of salt, maybe? A certain lack of understanding for the Japanese culture that only Japanese can understand? This is the secret of the Ramen itself, a search for perfection, and not before the Ramen Grand Master has had his say, there will be acceptance.Go see Tampopo, and you'll know what I mean.