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MY SASSY GIRL 2 (HK)

 ABOUT THE MOVIE

Genre: Romance/Comedy
Starring: Lynn Hung, Leon Jay Williams, Bosco Wong
Director: Joe Ma
Rating: PG
Year Made: 2010

 


 SPECIAL FEATURES

- NIL

 

 


 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Languages: Mandarin/Cantonese
Subtitles: English/Chinese
Aspect Ratio: 16x9
Sound: Dolby Digital
Running Time: 1 hr 26 mins
Region Code: 3
Distributor: Scorpio East

 

 

SYNOPSIS: 

An all-round nice guy college student is on the lookout for love. While his aunt has been trying to set him up on a blind date for ages, he has always come up with a reason to decline instead hoping to find a woman of his dreams all on his own. What he finds instead, however, is a decidedly different kind of woman. While on the subway, he has a fateful encounter with "The Girl", a beautiful but totally plastered young woman. He tries to ignore the girl's drunken antics but when she ends up calling "Honey" before promptly passing out, the duty falls upon our protagonist to take responsibility for the young woman since everyone on the train angrily presumes she's his girlfriend...

MOVIE REVIEW:

Have the producers of the Korean hit rom-com “My Sassy Girl” fallen on bad times? That would be the only explanation why they would decide to sully the name of their classic rom-com with this sequel, a Korean-Chinese co-production so inept that it puts everyone involved to shame.

Stepping into the shoes of the role which shot Gianna Jun to fame is Chinese model Lynn Xiong, better known as Aaron Kwok’s squeeze. Lynn has none of the charm or comedic talents of Gianna; instead, her idea of a domineering girlfriend is just one-note loud and brash, and comes off terribly frustrating- even more so when she suddenly gets all whiny over her character’s ex-boyfriend (played by Bosco Wong).

The script does her no justice. Instead of the inspired physical comic gags of the first movie, we get dull monotonous repetitions of Lynn trying to break up her ex-boyfriend’s impending nuptials with a rich girl, believing it to be all a scam. Pardon this reviewer’s biasedness, but watching Lynn and submissive boyfriend-wannabe Leon Jay Williams go around wrecking other people’s weddings in preparation for spoiling her ex’s is plain stupid and annoying.

Speaking of Leon, apologies to the Singaporean-born actor, but he does no favours for himself following in the shoes of Cha Tae-Hyun. Leon’s wooden performance suggests not only that he can’t do comedy at all, but that he can’t act for nuts. Why Bosco wasn’t cast instead in the role baffles me, since I would surmise that the Hong Kong TVB actor would at least do a competent job in it.

As if acknowledging that Lynn and Leon can’t hold the movie by themselves, there is yet another sassy girl-submissive boy couple- the girl a Taekwondo instructor and the guy a slightly feminine bra designer. The only link between the two? The girl is apparently Lynn’s cousin- what a flimsy lousy excuse if you ask me. But hey compared to the tedious pairing of Lynn and Leon, the romance between this other unlikely couple actually seems more interesting.

Supervising this fiasco is Hong Kong director Joe Ma, who seems to have been sleeping in his director’s chair. How else can you explain why the veteran director of entertaining rom-coms such as Love Undercover and its sequels would come up with such dreck? Indeed, Joe seems defeated by the quality of the acting and the script, so much so that he can’t summon the energy to make the pace of the movie snappier and the already brief 86-min movie less of a drag.

So don’t be fooled by the name of this movie. Besides its theme, this is an in-name only sequel to “My Sassy Girl” and a shocking embarrassment compared to the genuine humour and romance to the original. Skip this entirely- if only so those involved in this would be less humiliated by what they have been a part of.

SPECIAL FEATURES :

NIL.

AUDIO/VISUAL:

The Dolby Digital 2.0 audio comes in both its Mandarin and Cantonese tracks, both sounding as dull as the movie itself. The visual transfer of this movie leaves much to be desired- colours look lifeless, and picture looks grainy up close.

MOVIE RATING:



DVD RATING :

Review by Gabriel Chong

Posted on 1 January 2011

 
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This review is made possible with the kind support from Scorpio East

 



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