We Are Family

The Gist

Hacken Lee has secured himself a successful career. What he needs now is to build his family. In order for his girlfriend to agree to his marriage, he needs to pass a test: to meet her grandmother, her father and her two brothers. Funny how all four of these people look alike.

What Do I Think?

After a successful series of sell-out concerts all across Asia, Alan Tam and Hacken Lee team up again, this time on the silver screen. That premise alone was exciting to bring hype to the movie. Unfortunately, that’s where the excitement ends - at that premise alone. The idea of having Alan to play four different characters (ala Eddie Murphy doing the Klumps from Nutty Professor I and II) was a pretty smart way to welcome him back to the movies after a long hiatus. But the problem was the execution. No, I think the main problem is Alan Tam cannot act. Same goes to Hacken Lee.

Now a word about the female lead: Why did they have to get some girl who cannot speak Cantonese and have her lines dubbed? Is there really a bad shortage of Cantonese speaking actresses in Hong Kong? Them badly dubbed dialogues piss me off! If I want to catch a badly dubbed HK movie, I’ll go catch a Tsui Hark production.

Everyone’s performances in the movie possess a high class of blandness. Having part of the film shot in Singapore did not help much either. I don’t want to comment anything on the Singaporeans’ performances in order not to further severe the Malaysia – Singapore ties. Even Phua Chu Kang’s brief appearance couldn’t save the film’s boringness.

Oh, I didn’t finish watching the film. I left during the courtroom part.

Dear Clifton Ko (producer of the film), I used to love your films. Please do something to remove the words ‘used to’ from my previous sentence. Thank you in advance.
Regards,

Rating:
3/10. I’m being VERY generous.

Last updated: 2009-08-11 21:36:02 by joekhor