SYNOPSIS:
The campus is bustling with youth energy and spirit.
Emotions run high. The male dormitory is bustling with excitement
with discussions about sex going on. Simpleton Eun-sik and
gorgeous Kyeong-ah have been together for three years but
never ventured further than kissing. Eun-sik tries to take
a step forward in their relationship but always fails. Seong-gun
is good sports and in his studies. What Eun-sik envy most
is Seong-gun has tasted the "forbidden fruit". Seong-gun
tries to help Eun-sik fulfil his wish. Eun-sik's determination
results in many wacky results.
MOVIE REVIEW:
As an another entry to the teenage gross out sex comedies, this formulaic sequel had quite a few serious basic fundamental flaws that made it hard to enjoy even with low expectation.
Starting with the introduction of characters, Sex is Zero 2 made a mistake by assuming that viewers had seen the first one and never actually bothered to properly introduce the characters and their respective roles in this movie. With some of the actors looking ripe for the teachers role, it made one wonder are these juvenile individuals students or teachers. They looked like teachers but they are behaving in such childish ways that felt rather unsettling.
It just went on as a direct continuation from the first film as assume that viewers would have known how old they are suppose to be in this film and how are they connected to each other.
Besides not looking like the age of their characters, it doesn’t help that most of them lack the good looking appearance (essential for teenage comedies) to hold the viewer attention. There were two bitchy female characters in this mess who behaved so crass, rough and vulgar that they made the 80s “Hong Kong Queen of Ugly female roles” Sandra Ng looked like a classy dame. Every time, these two characters appeared on screen, it just made me want to fast forward the attempted at forced humor. Isn’t one such ugly female character enough? Do you really need two of them to “generate” laughter?
The characterization also flipped whenever the film attempted to create a “funny” scenario. One example would be a tough female vying for one of the male lead over one of the crass bitch. One moment, this film had the tough female kick the day lights out of the crass bitch and the next moment, this tough female is cowering from her when the bitch “discover” the rendezvous. What happen to the Kungfu kicks that the toughie was dishing out just a scene ago? As again, another forced attempt at humor which had conveniently forgotten what just transpired a moment ago.
The flip-flop handing of characters also affected what could have been a memorable “My Sassy Girl” type of love story. Starting from the beginning, the film made a mistake by linking this sequel with the original film. A teary airport farewell scene followed by a crazy hold up scene in the hospital just didn’t gel that well to create a believable commencement of a relationship (not matter how well they tried to explain it near the climatic end).
After which, we have to wade through a series of unfunny and not very romantic attempts for this lead guy to get into the female’s pants. It doesn’t help when the film actually made it more sympathetic for the lead female to leave the relationship for another guy. There were far too few valid reasons to root for the loser (the lead character) and by the time, the melodramatic revelation happened, it was too late to feel much for either of the characters.
To sum it up, Sex is Zero 2 tried too hard to be funny and they don’t really have anything new to show. The melodrama twist was a good way of explaining the two drastic behaviors of the male and female lead roles but the forced humor had made it redundant by the time we reach that part. At least this sex romp flick dared to show some skin and probably that will satisfy the targeted adolescents’ really want (which is all that matters).
SPECIAL
FEATURES:
NIL.
AUDIO/VISUAL:
Comes with English subtitles and Chinese subtitles and presented in Dolby Digital 2.0 with widescreen visual.
MOVIE RATING:
 
DVD
RATING:
Review by Richard Lim Jr |
