Review: I Love Hong Kong [Cantonese] (U)

Review: I Love Hong Kong [Cantonese] (U)


Category: Movie
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 101 mins
Watched at: MBO @ Tanjung Village Manjalara Tesco
Timing: 4.40 p.m.

Rating: 4.25 / 5.00

Overall

*I LOVE HONG KONG* POSTER

*I LOVE HONG KONG* POSTER

It's from the producer of 72 Tenants of Prosperity, if you guys do remember which movie is this. =) This movie, I Love Hong Kong is meant to be a comedy, thus, we expect the quality of the jokes to be high. You will not feel like being in the box for that long (1 hour and 41 minutes) as this movie is really a funny one. How funny it is? Hmmm, I can't use any words to describe this for the time being as it is super-duper funny to me. There are a few scenes that are so funny and that I can't help stop laughing at. You will know the feel when you watch it. For example, the part where Tony Leung was so unfortunate that he went into the "Dinosaur" twin sister's house at night just to avoid the misunderstanding between him and his wife. You will laugh at his unfortunate as the twin sister is so horrible. Hoho!

Young Tony Leung, Bosco Wong encountering with the Young Beauty Twin Sister (who turned into "Dinosaur" older)

Other sub-themes


You can't say it's only meant for comedy, as  there're other sub-themes present in the movie. Which theme did u notice after watching the movie? Family? Love & Relationship? Justice? I'll elaborate some in here.

Bosco (Young Tong Leung) & Wong Cho Lam (Young Eric Tsang)

The whole group of the artistes singing together in the end

FAMILY: You can find this from the interactions between Tony Leung and Sandra Ng as they are the one who showed the message of how important a family member is in the movie. Sandra Ng supported his husband in the market and helped him to market the leftover toys that he had after the wind up of his toy factory.

Tony Leung & Sandra Ng

JUSTICE: It's just all about the scene where Aarif Lee helped Fala Chen's father to speak to the police officer, telling the reasoning behind to let them go. It's so true that I also agree. Those police (don't think they are police, maybe DBKL) should be considerate but not work to meet the quota.

Aarif Lee & Fala Chen

I believe this will be a great movie for all and a movie that everyone will enjoy watching. Any feedback or comment, you guys can just leave your comment here or our facebook page. Have a nice day. =)

p/s: Video Trailer *click here if you could not view the video in our blog

p/s: MV for the sub-theme song *click here if you could not view the video in our blog


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Jeffrey

Review: Homecoming [Mandarin/Cantonese] (U)

Review: Homecoming [Mandarin/Cantonese] (U)


Category: Movie
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 90 mins
Watched at: TGV @ Wangsa Walk Mall
Timing: 12.00 p.m.



Rating: 4.50 / 5.00


Overall & Theme


First of all, it's a movie from Lee Thean-jeen, starred by Jack Neo, Mark Lee, Afdlin Shauki, Ah Niu, Jacelyn Tay, Huang Wenhong, Rebecca Lim and Koe Yeet. Major part of this movie is hilarious and for the touching scenes you guys can expect it if you are aware of the plots. The message or the main theme is quite obvious as you can feel it strongly when you're watching the movie. This scene is the scene that I remember most vividly whereby Jack Neo sacrifices "her" lottery ticket, which entitled "her" $8,000 as the first prize, to exchange air ticket with an Indian guy so that the little girl can rush back to her home to see her dad whom she missed a lot.

The girl who missed her dad a lot after leaving him alone in Singapore.

Family-based Theme


Not too emphasizing on the comedy side, this story is all about homecoming and the importance of family. Through the plots at the beginning, the message is delivered successfully. A few examples here:

• The story starts with the homecoming of Jack Neo and Ah Niu with the intention to introduce a girl to Ah Niu. Throughout the story, they exhibit that they are so keen on going back for the reunion. This is further supported by the other family members of theirs, waiting for them to start the dinner, showing the importance of the dinner and the traditions. =)

• Supporting the climax mentioned in the above point, there is another little scene exhibited by the young spouse in the family. Being the modern generation and not being in the traditional Chinese family, the wife doesn't understand the meaning of the reunion dinner for Chinese. Spending a day with her husband's family, she seems to understand it slowly and have given up the free trip to Bali Island after the reunion dinner and chose to wait for Jack Neo and Ah Niu. =)

• Mark Lee is an ego and proud character in the movie, who always complains the work done by his fellow cooks. When Chinese New Year is around the corner, all his cooks leave he himself there being so helpless to complete the dinner preparation for the Minister. His restaurant manager helped him for the first time by bringing all her family members there to cook, but gave up to help him after he had scolded all her family members away. Fortunately, she returned to the restaurant with her family to help him at last. =) After the dinner, he's surprised by the return of his daughter in the end.

Hope you guys will enjoy this movie a lot as it really reminds you about your family, just like how Great Day reminded us too.

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Jeffrey

Review: Great Day [Mandarin/Cantonese] (U)

Review: Great Day [Mandarin/Cantonese] (U)


Category: Movie
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Duration: 95 mins
Watched at: Big Cinema @ Brem Mall
Timing: 2.00 p.m.

Rating: 4.25 / 5.00

Overall & Theme


Great Day, starred by Jack Lim, Wan Wai Fun, Royce, Vivian, Jiang Han, is a Mandarin-Cantonese mix movie. There is another dialect being used in the movie too, such as Hokkien, so it suits the local here well. Storyline or the plot is quite tough for the public as it requires some self-linking. You have to be in the situation in order to understand well. Watching the movie now is considered to be the most suitable time for me as it does really make me stand in my friend's side to think for her. She did really miss her family since she had shifted to Kuala Lumpur for further studies. This is the main theme for the movie. Family. Without family, you're nothing. And also, when you wanna "repay you debt owed to your parents", but they are not around anymore, you will feel regret for sure! I bet you will! If you do not have the chance to do so when they are still around. The dialogues or the scripts sound local and it's not much different from our daily life in Malaysia. Thinking about that, I feel proud to be Malaysian.

How to enjoy it?


Follow the story closely as it progresses. The production team has made the effort to increase the depth of the movie as it requires the audience to make some simple thinking to feel the message to be delivered. There are a few points to be noticed about so that you can get the theme and message better. For example, the scene that I remembered most vividly is, the scene whereby the little girl "Zi Xin" took all the way long to Perlis from Kuala Lumpur just to visit her known-not-long-ago grandfather. She's just a young girl studying primary school, but she made her own effort to travel to Perlis without knowing the actual way to reach there. Without the bond between family members, you won't have this kind of courage to do so. Do take note of those little little points to ponder well.

Ending


The ending is not that good enough for the public or for pure entertainment as it did not end well though the story is touching. To me, actually the ending is good enough as they have delivered the required message to us with a memorable scene. For those who can understand the underlying meaning intended to be delivered, it's just nice since it's also a local production. By the way, there's a link between the title and the theme or storyline. The greatest day ever in the world is to be with your closest family, you will regret when u can't do so when you feel like wanna to be with them.

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Jeffrey

Review: Narnia 3 [Movie]

Review: Narnia 3: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of The Dawn Treader [Movie]


Language of review: Mandarin

<<纳尼亚3：黎明的踏浪号>>

电影简介：

  由博伟电影制作，二十世纪霍士代理发行，改编自C.S路易斯的著名小说    <<纳尼亚传奇>>。 <<黎明的踏浪号>>是该电影系列中的第三部，上映日期为2010年12月10日。

剧情简介：

这是一部有关航海的奇幻故事。

故事从主人翁---艾德蒙和露西，在暑假里，到姨妈家里渡假时而说起。其表兄弟---尤斯提为人骄傲自大，对他们在房间里谈起有关纳尼亚世界的事情，甚为歧视。就在这时候，挂在墙上的那一副航海油画，奇妙地游动着，海水慢慢地渗入，添满了整个房间，也吞没了艾德蒙、露西以及尤斯提。

三人游上水来，被画里航海船的水手们救起。露西赫然发现, 救起她的水手之一，竟是好友---凯史奔王子。这已确实他们真的来到了纳尼亚的王国。

唯有，那还不想信纳尼亚王国不是幻想世界的尤斯提，一直在喋喋不休地吵着要回家。

 原来，凯史奔这次航海的目的，是要找回被驱出纳尼亚王国的七位爵士。然而，要找回被驱出的爵士们，他们必须面对种种艰难险阻的考验。

个人感想：

个人认为，<<纳尼亚3：黎明的踏浪号>>好看的原因，主要是该片透过“魔”，带出了一个很值得大家注意的道德观念：“贪欲容易使人迷失本性。”---片中， 艾德蒙在一个无人岛上，发现岩石洞里的水，能够滴水成金时，曾和凯史奔王子发生争执，大打出手，幸而被旁观者清的露西及时劝住，由此可见“贪欲”令人失去本性是多么的厉害！(注：当中，还有其他有关“贪欲” 的例子，观众可以在看<<纳尼亚3>>时，多多留意露西渴求美貌的片段。)

个人也认为，最精彩的片段并不是最后众人与大海蟒决斗生死的场面。而是，因为一时贪念，而被受到诅咒，化身为龙的尤斯提。在为龙身的期间，尤斯提曾在一片段中，留下过眼泪，相信应该是接受不到现实和后悔自己不该“贪”。(换成是你我也会有同样的感觉。)

片中的演员，大致上我都觉得相当的满意。但，我却分外欣赏那只会击剑且会说话的老鼠--雷里碧奇。它是一只勇敢和乐观派的老鼠。在尤斯提为龙身时，它一直都在他身旁，不但安慰，而且还很鼓励他成为一个勇敢的斗士。同时，在那期间，两人也彼此产生了友谊。

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Jeff & Tan