Review Yowis Ben 2 (2019)
Following up the sleeper hit with an exhilarating sociolinguistic discourse, Yowis Ben 2 can still be funny even when the acting department's a bit lousy and the narrative messy.
In 2018, Yowis Ben prevailed against the odd condemning its segmented nature-using regional language (Javanese) with a more obscure dialect (Malangnese) and came in as a profitable sleeper-hit (almost hitting a million viewers during its theatrical run). While the use of particular dialects is not a new thing in Indonesian cinema, especially in arthouse community; the fact that ...