‘Don’t think you’re the best parents’: I Not Stupid 3 spotlights parenting in S’pore

Film-maker Jack Neo with I Not Stupid 3's young actors Goh Wee-Ann, Camans Kong, Joseph Ng and Zhou Yuchen.

The franchise kicked off with 2002’s I Not Stupid, which centred on the struggles of three Primary 6 pupils placed in the academically inferior EM3 stream and made stars out of then child actors Shawn Lee and Joshua Ang. The latter also appeared in I Not Stupid Too. “I will not say the movie is to wake parents up, but to remind them that parenting is not what they think,” Neo, 64, says during an interview at I Not Stupid 3’s press conference, held at the Mandarin Oriental hotel on June 4.

The writer-director adds that the movie draws on his experience as a father of four children, who are now between the ages of 19 and 32. However, their Singaporean co-stars Goh Wee-Ann, 13, and Joseph Ng, 12, believe I Not Stupid 3 is an accurate representation of their time as primary-school pupils. Northland Primary School pupil Joseph, who is taking his PSLE later in the year, says: “The atmosphere has become significantly more serious and stressful, and everyone around me is working hard.The revival of the I Not Stupid franchise has also allowed Neo to highlight another hot-button topic among Singaporeans – the rising number of Chinese students moving to Singapore to enter the local education system.

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