Nak Loves Mak Sooo Much! (2025)

Sweet riff on Mae Nak

You will get more from this if you've seen Nang Nak first - the 1999 film is the clearest, most straight forward, classic retelling of the Mae Nak legend available on the internet. The more familiar you are with that story, the easier this one will be to follow and the more its emotions will resonate.

Mae Nak has an important enough place in Thai culture that they make films about making films about her story - any way to revisit Nak, Mak and their love. There are dozens of adaptations and it's quite naturally assumed the audience knows the core story already. If you're only here for Krist, or only think about Thailand in terms of BL, can you not spare a couple of hours to learn more about this facet of their rich and complex culture?

My ratings and the rest of my review are provisional until I'm able to watch this subbed. I know I didn't catch a lot of the banter between the filmmaker characters but for the rest it was easy enough to go on vibes, visual recognition of elements from Nang Nak and what Thai I could pick up. Fern Passakorn as Salee was a favourite - I always like the energy she brings.

It's a sweet riff on Mae Nak. There's a lot of fun, plenty of silliness and of course a lot of love. Perhaps some brief commentary on the constraints fans put on actors' personal lives and loves. On its own, the love story between the leads may feel underdeveloped - but this isn't meant to be watched on its own. It's a recent addition to a long lineage of story.

If you short yourself on that background, you're shorting yourself on the emotions this one conveys. The choice is yours.

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yada carried the whole movie....

low budget movie, messy post production, old style humour, weak script… and it honestly feels like everyone is just being themselves with no script, except for yada (and krist later on). i genuinely don’t know how this made it to cinema screening.

the worst part is they didn’t even focus fully on mak and nak’s story. instead, we get too much random, kinda pointless comedic stunts from the crew gang?? like I get it, the gang (especially petchtai) is big in thailand, but still… it just way too much.

i actually feel bad for yada because her acting is way too good for this kind of script. she literally carried the whole movie from start to end. the chemistry between her and krist is more cute than heart-fluttering, but somehow they still made me cry in their scenes, so i’ll give them that.

overall, this movie had so much potential. it would’ve been way better if they just focused on mak and nak’s story, with only a bit of the trio instead of overdoing it. i know they directed and produced it themselves, but honestly… they should’ve chosen a different story to make their gang shine, and not this legendary tale.

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