My Five Aunts Have Superpowers [2026]

This Chinese vertical drama is extremely poorly named. There are five aunts (in spite of the poster only showing four) and there are superpowers, but the aunts are not the ones with them. Also somewhat amusingly, the version of this film we watched sometimes had the segments out of order and we ended up watching the very beginning at the end and it did clear up some confusion so I will explain it as it is supposed to be watched.

A guy gets an invite from one of his mom's distant cousins to move in. There's a misunderstanding that he's an intruder when he goes into the house and he gets beat up by his hot aunts. Things are resolved and in his new bedroom he finds a pair of broken glasses that activate a supercomputer that will give him superpowers every time he saves one of his aunts. Thankfully for his stats maxing, his aunts get into issues a lot. The film is mostly a series of vignettes of him using his powers to solve his aunt's issues and getting more powers: saving Doctor Aunt from a gangster who blames him for his impotence after a car accident, saving Business Aunt by finding a water stream, saving Steamer Aunt by winning a pool game, saving Teacher Aunt and Business Aunt from rape during a business meeting, sorta-not-really saving Business Aunt yet again by winning a poker match and getting a lucrative deal for her company that she just hired him at, verifying the value of a present for grandma with Business Aunt, and finally saving Biker Aunt from rape. Every man is a rapist. Every aunt has sexual tension with the main guy. After saving Biker Aunt she reveals that all the aunts are adopted so they can be together. Considering how much time he spent with Business Aunt, it wasn't clear that Biker Aunt would be the endgame but whatever, we're reaching the two hour mark. They reveal their relationship at grandma's birthday, and she is reasonably weirded out.

This was our first step into Chinese drama and honestly? The English ones were way better. This one did have a little bit of extra fun added with the bad, possibly AI, dubbing, but there were so many segments that dragged, and the episodic story was pretty unsatisfying. As a bad bonus, this film had a disgusting male-rapist-gets-raped-by-"ugly"-woman joke that I haven't seen in a film in well over a decade. Get it together, China.

Spoon Rating: 4