review by Aram Siu Wai Collier, Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival - November 2006
	All you "fakes", "sell-outs" and especially "bad writers" take note:  there are a lot of things wrong with Frank Chin.  The Asian American writer, playwright, actor, scholar and activist of incomparable passion has been both revered and hated - sometimes by the same person.  And he's likely to make your blood boil AND laugh out loud in this latest feature from veteran documentarian Curtis Choy. As part of the American Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, the political consciousness of Asian Americans shifted to focus on multi-ethnic solidarity with an emphasis on self-determination and (re)telling the history of Asians in America outside the traditional racist institutions that made such a movement necessary.  Frank Chin planted himself in the eye of this storm through his exhaustive work as a playwright, novelist and activist, quickly garnering a reputation as the veritable polemicist (his feuds about literary authenticity with writers Amy tan, David Henry Hwang and Maxine Hong Kingston are hilariously bitter and legendary).  Although his contributions to the Asian American movement are immeasurable, he remains widely unacknowledged.   Chin would even be a "Renaissance Man" if only more people liked him.  Instead, he's more like the embarrassing uncle of Asian America - he's family, but sometimes you wish he wouldn't show up. Director Choy is himself a fixture in Asian America with his seminal films The Fall of The I-Hotel and Dupont Guy: The Schiz of Grant Avenue.  What's Wrong With Frank Chin? showcases 30 years of his community-based documentary work through archival photos, print and film, and interviews with numerous Chin contemporaries.   Choy's sly editing creates visual and aural collages within scenes that both embellish and contradict Chin, pushing the film beyond simple biography.  It's as if Choy is in dialogue with Chin, a compelling display in all its obstinacy, sincerity and "Frankness".