You don't really celebrate Chinese New Year until you go and watch a funny, entertaining chinese movie to ring in the new year. With so much promotion being done for this movie, I was thrilled to get plans rolling for my family to go and watch this movie on the first day of the new year. The crowd were thin upon arrival. Tickets were bought 2 days earlier which was picked up the day before, I just kept telling my family that you will be in for a very good and funny movie.
Name:72 Tenants of Prosperity (72家租客) Language: Cantonese Date of release:11th February 2010 (Hong Kong) Director:Eric Tsang and Patrick Kong Starring:Eric Tsang, Jacky Cheung, Bosco Wong, Anita Yuen
The movie begins in 1970s Hong Kong, rapacious landlords try to evict 72 tenants but sworn brothers Ha Kung and Shek Kin. With the help from the group of 72 defeat the landlord and landlady, coincidentally rescue Pinky from a planned forced marriage. When both sworn brothers fall for Pinky and propose to her, she flips a coin heads or tails and Ha wins her hand in marriage. The sworn brothers become sworn enemies and Sheks hatred fuels intense rivalry against Ha in business dealings. Even after 40 years they continue to clash and in 2010 they are in keen competition selling electronics appliances in Sai Yeung Choi Street, Mongkok, the busiest street in the city and still home to the 72 tenants. In a fiercely competitive Sai Yeung Choi Street high rents force businessmen to use every means to survive. These ploys are minor compared with the tactics of the landlord who threatens to close down the shops unless his demands for triple rental are met. Amidst this strife and struggle the street is hit by acid-attacks and in high spirits the 72 tenants unite and pledge to safeguard their home.
Many rated this movie may not be able to beat the other chinese new year movie All's Well Ends Well 2010 because of how well it did in the year 2009, so people will think that the 2010 will be better and funnier... however 72 Tenants proved that it has what it takes to beat that movie to claim the funniest show for the year 2010. There's Sam Hui's "Pun Kan Pat Leong" to Michael Jackson's Beat It, Jacky Cheung also has its fair share of his songs being sang throughout the movie. The jokes were never dry where it was entertainingly funny and the movie kept to its promise that there's no extras, just pure Hong Kong actor and actresses are the key figures to the movie. Kevin Cheng of Burning Flame 3 and also Michael Tse as Laughing Gor from the series E.U also made their presence felt in this movie. I had a good time watching this movie, it's every minute well spent and also the funny moments were stuck in my head for quite a while too! The best part would be to see everyone came out smiling, now that's the best thing to happen during Chinese New Year.
If you have been a huge fan of the Storm Riders movie back in 1998, then this movie will eventually go well with the fans. What I could remember was the all time popular sitting down pose by Cloud (Aaron Kwok) which was eventually a major hit and every boys in school eventually started to taking their own personal photos in the manner. With good news being announced that Ekin Cheng and Aaron Kwok would return 10 years after the original Storm Riders for a sequel, no wonder those ardent fans were buzzing about this movie since early 2009.
Name:The Storm Warriors (風雲 II) Language: Cantonese Date of release: 10th December 2009(Hong Kong) Director:Danny Pang and Oxide Pang Starring:Aaron Kwok, Ekin Cheng, Simon Yam
The movie tells of Lord Godless and his son, Heart; whom are out to take over the martial arts world and the Middle Kingdom. They imprisoned the Emperor together with a large number of martial artists and tried to make them subjugate. Even with Nameless, Wind and Cloud combined effort, they cannot defeat Godless and his impenetrable body armor. Injured from battle, they seek the help of reclusive master Lord Wicked who guides Wind into harnessing the powers of the dark side. A dejected Cloud who was shunned by Lord Wicked from training, were then taken in by Nameless as his student. Both Wind and Cloud quickly boosted up their martial arts skills through intense training by Lord Wicked and Nameless. Godless, meanwhile, is forcing the Emperor to reveal the location of the powerful "Dragon Bone" relic. Unable to control his newfound powers, Wind loses himself to the dark side, and sets out to destroy Godless... and Cloud.
Special effects... check! Awesome fighting sequences... check! Aaron Kwok sitting pose... check! Now I was thrilled to watch this movie at home after I bought the original DVD from the store and the movie just blows me away. I've read plenty of reviews how this movie sucked and has copied a lot of Western features, I'm very much disagreeing with those critiques. If you would just sit down, relax and open yourself to the movie, the entire movie is rather an enjoyable sequel to watch. The opening song that was sang by Aaron and Ekin was great as well. The bad point about this movie was Charlene Choi. She didn't really fit well for her role, period! And the worst thing that ever happened about this movie was... it didn't end as well as I thought. It leaves every fans hanging in the middle of the air with that bloody poor script! I hate middle of the air storylines. Never the less, I didn't go to the cinema's to watch it so I still enjoyed fast-forwarding when I see Charlene on the screen and repeating the best fighting parts a few times with the remote.
Name: 72 Tenants of Prosperity (72家租客)
Many rated this movie may not be able to beat the other chinese new year movie All's Well Ends Well 2010 because of how well it did in the year 2009, so people will think that the 2010 will be better and funnier... however 72 Tenants proved that it has what it takes to beat that movie to claim the funniest show for the year 2010. There's Sam Hui's "Pun Kan Pat Leong" to Michael Jackson's Beat It, Jacky Cheung also has its fair share of his songs being sang throughout the movie. The jokes were never dry where it was entertainingly funny and the movie kept to its promise that there's no extras, just pure Hong Kong actor and actresses are the key figures to the movie. Kevin Cheng of Burning Flame 3 and also Michael Tse as Laughing Gor from the series E.U also made their presence felt in this movie. I had a good time watching this movie, it's every minute well spent and also the funny moments were stuck in my head for quite a while too! The best part would be to see everyone came out smiling, now that's the best thing to happen during Chinese New Year.
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