The Lunar New Year 2026 film season is a box office race of 4 films: Tho oi!!, My father's house in one room, God-given treasure and Mui pho. Up to now, 3/4 of Tet films have achieved high revenue and are likely to generate profits. "God-given treasure" as of the afternoon of March 2 has reached 92 billion VND, approaching the figure of 100 billion VND, while Tran Thanh's "Tho oi!!" is predicted to exceed 400 billion VND in the next few days.
Compared to the 2025 Tet season, only 3 Vietnamese films raced, "Bo tu bao thu" reached 332 billion VND, "Nu hon bac billion" reached 211 billion VND, "Yeu lan ban ban" suffered heavy losses... Clearly, the 2026 Tet season is more successful.
In the early days of "Thỏ ơi!!" and "Nhà ba tôi một phòng" being released in theaters, there was still a ticket shortage situation. By the 4-5th day of Tet, in many cinemas, audiences lined up to buy tickets to go to the cinema to watch movies.
Although winning in revenue and creating attraction, all 4 Tet movies this year only stopped at an average score in quality. The weakness of the 4 movies still lies in the script.
The weakest is "Mui Pho". "Mui Pho" currently has the lowest revenue, less than 40 billion VND. "Mui Pho" is weak in terms of both script, content deployment, character building, and acting.
Many viewers criticized Tran Thanh's "Thỏ ơi!!" as noisy, but "Mùi phở" is even more noisy and noisy.
If you go to see these 2 movies in 2 consecutive days, viewers may have... headaches. Both movies have a lot of dialogue volume, the characters constantly raise their voices, argue, and even have characters screaming, with maximum volume.
Mui pho" is inferior to "Tho oi!!" in terms of script and idea deployment, and far inferior to "Bau vat troi cho" in terms of moderation and bringing emotions into details that carry the message of honoring national culture.
Taking the idea of traditional Vietnamese pho, but the script of "Mui pho" mainly focuses on family conflicts. Conflicts and conflicts are not deployed with reasonable details, creating disjointedness.
The detail of the neighbor pretending to kidnap the eldest grandson to help Mr. Mui's family mend the relationship between father-in-law and daughter-in-law is considered unreasonable and forced.
Mui pho" could not convince the audience of the quintessential beauty in the national culinary culture with such a somewhat "chaotic" script.
God-given treasures" also contains many details honoring national culture in the script, such as the traditional fish sauce making method, the custom of worshiping the elephant fish, along with many customs and cultures of the coastal villagers.
The plus point of "God-given Treasure" is the acting of Phuong Anh Dao and Tuan Tran.
The film has many beautiful camera angles, bringing the beauty of regional culture to the film with rich emotions.
However, "Heaven's Gift" still cannot escape the "deadly" weakness of Vietnamese films, which is the script and the unreasonable way of building details. The second half of "Heaven's Gift" is so weak and unreasonable that it overshadows even the plus points obtained in the content and topic deployment at the beginning of the film.
With "Thỏ ơi!!", this is a film that reveals Trấn Thành's biggest weaknesses in the way he builds the script, he is too greedy for details, making the film feel overwhelmed and confused, especially the forced ending is a big minus point of "Thỏ ơi!!".
For the first time in the role of producer and director, Truong Giang joined the Tet movie race with many expectations placed on "My Father's House, One Room".
Watching "My Father's House, One Room" can feel Truong Giang's enthusiasm. Playing Mr. Thach, Truong Giang goes through many scenes with heavy psychological developments. Audiences compare Truong Giang to "crying uncontrollably" in Tet movies. Before the audience could cry, Truong Giang cried uncontrollably.
My father's house, one room" exploits old topics, many details in the film are pushed too far, causing the audience's emotions to be distorted compared to the characters. Just one argument between Mr. Thach and his daughter, Mr. Thach wandered, crying miserably all over the streets to call his daughter... While in reality, it is normal for parents and children to have conflicts in views and lifestyles.
My father's house, one room" has a lengthy, lengthy, and lack of restraint storytelling style. Truong Giang will need to make greater efforts in subsequent film projects if he still maintains his passion for cinema.
