(最好的我们) My Best Summer is a film adaptation of a 2016 Chinese drama called With You. The film is about a girl name Geng Geng, an adorably awkward kid who got into a prestigious high school; Geng Geng feels like she's not smart enough. On the first day of school, she encounters a new deskmate Yu Huai, who is brilliantly smart and tall. As both get to know each other by being seatmates, the banters and jest, Geng Geng and Yu Huai unknowingly got closer to each other.

I haven't seen the drama version of this that also adapted by this film. You could say that this review is a perspective of the film.

This film is about youth and romance; I think I have seen a good amount of Chinese films that centers around youth and romance which I am not complaining about, I actually have some of my favorites from them but there were also bad pickles on it that I gave up on watching.
I wouldn't say that I like this a lot but I'm on the neutral side but I can't deny that the film made me smile with the character's moments.

Whenever I watch films that center around being a student, first love, friendships, and youth, it takes me back to my youth too. Reminiscing your first crush, your evil teachers who made you suffer, friendships that have been made, embarrassing moments, school festivals and after school moments.

There are moments in the film that made me cringe but not too much; the conflict in the half act somehow not as deep as it was but it got deepen in the final act. The cast did a good job portraying the characters; I searched up the leads of this film and to my surprise that they are a year older apart from each other and somehow it made me feel old because wow, I never really feel this old while searching up celebs that were born in 19999 or 2000s.
Arthur Chen and He Lan-Dou have this cute chemistry during the flashback in youth but they have this mature chemistry when their characters are in the present time. Yes, the duality, I appreciate it,

Reasons to recommend this?
If you're looking for a sweet youth romance, I recommend this to you. The cinematography is quite good too with the soundtrack; There's nothing really grand about it but if you're open-minded and want to sweeten your film viewing then maybe you could try this.