During Chinese New Year, i never went for any house visiting but instead, i went with Ter and Stella to watch the following movie....
Kung Fu Dunk
Story Plot:
Shi-Jie (Jay Chou), grew up in a martial arts school and is well-trained in kung-fu. With his kung-fu skills and good reflexes, Shi-Jie excels in basketball by mastering the slam dunk technique. Wang-Li (Eric Tsang), who is trying to locate Shi-Jie's real family, invites him to join the university's basketball team in hope of making some money. Shi-Jie faces new challenges while trying to blend in with the basketball team members Ting-Wei (Chen Bo-Lin) and Xiao-Lan (Baron Chen). With the upcoming basketball championship and the appearance of Li-Li (Charlene Choi), will the team members set aside their differences and personal feelings for the love of the game?
Cinema review:
Kung Fu Dunk" revolves around Shi-Jie (Jay Chou), an orphan who grew up in a Martial Arts School. With his nifty Kung-fu skills, he is spotted by Wang-Li (Eric Tsang) who invites him to join the university's basketball team in the hope of making money from him. There, Shi-Jie finds out that Li-li (Charlene Choi), whom he has been admiring, is the sister of the team's captain. She, however, idolises Xiao-Lan (Baron Chen), one of the other players on the team and it is this love triangle that throws the team off course initially before they gather their wits about them and focus on the real competition on the courts.
Director Kevin Chu works on a fail-proof formula of a tried-and-tested storyline and casting of superstar Jay Chou in the lead role. Supported by well known faces in the likes of Charlene Choi and Eric Tsang, this movie is a confirmed blockbuster during this Chinese New Year season. The director also cleverly keeps Jay Chou's role simple and boyish and the love/hate, romance and other themes that the movie introduces and then deftly hidden from view, so that the attention consistently stays on the courts.
A comparison between this movie and other like movies such as "Shaolin Soccer", "Kung Fu Hustle" and the same-date 2008 release of Stephen Chow's "CJ7" will be inevitable. Yet this movie should be able to hold its own simply by Jay Chou's drawing power. Fans will be eager to see his kung fu skills and to see him in action playing his favourite sport - basketball. In addition, Jay Chou in "Kung Fu Dunk", compared to his earlier movies, attempts a 'slam dunk' in this movie by dappling with the deeper emotional stuff which his earlier works had largely avoided.
With Tony Ching, photographer of "Curse of the Golden Flower" and sound engineer Shirley Chan, who is a Golden Horse winner of best sound effects in Taiwan, who are amongst a host of other well known names who held the fort in the post production phase of this movie, it is little wonder that this movie clocks up the title of biggest production with its $10million budget. However, fans will agree that the slew of action from the cast coupled with the special effects is what will make this movie of great entertainment value and worth every sen spent. While the movie may not go down into the annals of Great Movies, it nevertheless fulfils its role as a great long weekend movie.
Lastly, look out for Baron Chen and Chen Bo-Lin as together they make great eye candy - that is if you are able to draw your attention away from Jay Chou for just a second. Expect a cameo appearance by Liu Geng Hong as well.
Second Movie i went to watched are:
Ah Long Pte Ltd
The plot:
Ah Long Pte Ltd 《老师嫁老大》 is a light-hearted black comedy about the triad world and the money-lending business. Instead of treating the subject of Ah Longs (money-lenders) seriously, the movie takes on a humorous and sarcastic treatment. It depicts how a young lady tries to restructure her money-lending triad into a professional and ‘loving' triad that stands against the use of violence after she takes over from her triad leader who has retired. Her various restructuring plans (which are no doubt very creative) bring about hilarious results.
Chen Jun (played by Richard Low) is the leader of Shao He Triad. The story opens with him deciding to “retire” from the triad business. Prior to his retirement, he elects Wang Li Hua (played by Fann Wong), a young but tough girl, as his successor.
Li Hua believes that changes need to be made to the current money lending system . Although Li Hua prioritizes the triad's success, she is very much against the idea of using violent means to collect debts. Therefore, with the help of some professional consultants, Li Hua and several of her subordinates (played by KK and Daniel Tan) start adopting a series of creative tactics to attract money lenders and practice hilarious methods to pressure the money-lenders to repay in a non-violent way. However, Li Hua's plan of “restructuring” her triad meets with obstacles and opposition from the majority of the conservative elders in both her own triad and rival triad.
At the brighter end of the world, Mr. Fang (played by Mark Lee) is a kind-hearted dance instructor who is slightly sissy in character. Fate has it that Mr. Fang runs into Li Hua on numerous occasions by chance. Since Li Hua's mother has been pressuring her to get married, Li Hua decides to force Mr. Fang to marry her. Surprisingly, Mr. Fang agrees to it, wanting to prove his masculinity. Though finding it hard to accept the fact that Li Hua is a triad head, Mr. Fang approves of her effort to minimize the use of violence. Subsequently, he offers to help Li Hua out by introducing creative ways to reduce violent methods of debt collection.
My Review:
This show come in just for a luagh yet it gt the crtisise from so many singaporean. It amke me wonder y do Singaporean dun support local movie at all? Is it reali so low class? Personally for me, i found it amazing and funny that i cann throw aside my thought and feeling and jus go in for a enjoyable times. I watched it and learnt the true meaning from the Movie that how a young and cute gal and turned into a hateful gal jus by the changing of the environment she is forced into to teach those Ah longs a lesson. Maybe it time Singaporean Wake up to their ideas and instead to crtiise and why not sit back and relaxed to watch this humourous movie. I am going to give 5 Thumb Up for this Movie.
