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Summary:

An isekai slice-of-life fantasy romantic comedy and a satirical take on the weeaboo lifestyle, Me and My Waifu follows Tom (Simon Pegg), a 40-something loser who's been a hardcore weeaboo since childhood. One night, when he decides to binge-watch a slice-of-life anime before putting an end to his otaku lifestyle under the advice of his friend Peter (Nick Frost). But when a blackout occurs and Tom accidentally injures himself--and his television--while attempting to navigate himself through the dark, he wakes up the next day to find the anime's protagonist, a young dandere schoolgirl named Yumiko (Erica Mendez) has come to life as his roommate.

Now, Tom and Peter must assist Yumiko through the ups and downs of the real world, as Tom begins to find friendship in her--and the line between his otaku life and personal life begins to blur along the way.

Me and My Waifu also stars J.K. Simmons as Tom's therapist Francis, Erika Harlacher as a fictionalized version of herself that Tom and Peter attempt to seek help from, Xanthe Huynh as the voice of Yumiko's best friend Chiemi, Rosamund Pike as Tom's ex-girlfriend Sarah, Paul Rudd as Tom's douchebag officemate Walter, and Taika Waititi as Tom's boss Michael.

Director: Edgar Wright

Writer: Edgar Wright

Cast:

  • Simon Pegg as Tom
  • Nick Frost as Peter
  • Erica Mendez as Yumiko
  • J.K. Simmons as Francis
  • Xanthe Huynh as Chiemi
  • Paul Ridd as Walter
  • Taika Waititi as Michael

Rotten Tomatoes: 75%

Metacritic: 54

VOD: April Fools' Day

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 month ago

VOD: April Fools' Day

Saddest part of this post. Would watch it because it sounds interesting.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I would actually watch that if it were real

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago

Im so sad it is not. This would be a comedic masterpiece.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

That’s the perfect about of ridiculousness to where you think β€˜well, it could be real’

[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I am devastated that this isn't real

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh that explains it. Thanks. I’m stoopid

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

I sent the image to several people thinking it was real before I realized. Me no smart.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'd watch this. Not an anime fan, but I bet Simon Pegg would nail the comedy.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago

I ate the onion.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

about to leave his katana collection behind

Can't have shite in UK, eh?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

😭 got me good

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Damn. I wanted it to be real.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Need to age Simon up a bit.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

I'd watch anything created by Edgar Wright including this if it were real

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Took me a second on that one. Today's more of a "get drunk and be rowdy" holiday where I'm at so everything on the Internet being a joke was a touch slow on the uptake.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

As the plot progresses he gets progressively weirder and weirder around Yumiko, eventually leading him to getting thrown in prison and shanked. Yumiko is a minor, after all.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think the sex scene was done very well. The things you can pull off nowadays with CGI is just crazy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Avatar moment.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

But the sakuga fight scene against the freaky ninja inmates made up for it.

You'd think they could have done better than the bad CG dragon though.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Give me Edgard Wright's smash cuts and I can watch anythingπŸ˜…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Big fan of Ed's style!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

That's amazing hahaha

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I fucking hate this day. Especially when it's "hey, here's something obviously cool that we should make, right? Nah, April Fools!" Get a better joke. Whole internet becomes a trash heap today with low effort gotchas. Not to mention this specifically is a 5 year old prank anyways.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

"Obviously cool."

Touch grass, nerd.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Look at his fingers. Fucking AI content too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

It's from 2020. It literally predates ChatGPT. Google it and you'll find the fake trailers on YouTube with dates.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

If you zoom in, the fingers look fine

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

40-something my arse! He was at least late twenties when Spaced came out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Replace Taika Watiti with someone else and I'm in.