Ok, at least I caught one of the movies that I want to catch today. Kungfu Dunk. The movies I want to catch?; Sweeney Todd, CJ7, Ah Long Pte Ltd and Kungfu Dunk. So that's 1 down and 3 to go.
Has anyone caught that Ah Long Pte Ltd yet? Is it really that bad? A lot of people dissuaded me on that, saying it's a really sucky show and that Straits Times has it rated 1/5. o_O" 1/5, I think that's not a easy score to get (in a negative manner). But the trailer seems rather interesting lehz. Just thinking of the part about Mark Lee bringing on the Malaysian Chinese slang makes me want to laugh. Hmm...
Anyway, speaking of Kungfu Dunk, here's a synopsis of sorts from Wikipedia before I comment on it.
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"The film revolves around an orphaned boy who grew up in a kung fu university and becomes a talented basketball player.[2] The youngster, Shi-Jie (by Jay Chou) grew up at The Kung-Fu School. He practiced excellent Kung-Fu and was equipped with a good sense of feel. Unexpectedly, he showed his marvellous skills of slam-dunk. Therefore, he was selected by Wang-Li who had wicked ideas and made his living in the streets. On the excuse of helping him search for his family, Wang-Li invited him to play basketball at the first university. However, he would like to make use of him to make money.
After joining the basketball team, Shi-Jie found that Li-Li whom he admired for a long time is the sister of Ting-Wei (by Bo-Lin Chen) the leader of basketball team. Shi Jie was desperate to draw her attention. Therefore, he attempted to compete with Xiao-Lan (By Baron Chen), who is Li-Li's idol, which made the basketball team lapse into an unstable atmosphere. During the process, the conflicts between each other had been sorted out after the counsel of Ting-Tei. Meanwhile, he helped Shi-Jie combine the foundation of Kung-Fu into the basketball skills, which brought his skills into full play and helped team go through the critical competitions.
At this time, the major competitor faced by Shi-Jie and his team members was the team led by Lee Tien, the previous fighting brother of Ting Wei. The team was constituted by a group of horrible men who were withstood to join any basketball games in the United States. They also bribed the referees, which made the basketball team of the first university become the living targets and face the situation of crushing defeat. When the situation was in danger, Wang-Li made great efforts to persuade four grand masters with excellent martial arts to take up a challenge at the last moment.
How did Shi-Jie reverse the situation and lead the team to create a miracle? Will he find his family? Who would be his lover at the end?"
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Anyway, it was generally a pretty light movie. Not for those looking for depth, conspiracy theories and stuff of that kind. Bourne Series, Letters from Iwo Jima, Pan's Labyrinth... no, not that kind. It's more for those people who like fighting action, CG, flashy stuff, simple plot kindda thing.
The acting from Jay I think was pretty good. I'm no movie critic but I think that his acting is really not bad. The plot was a bit undeveloped and spoiled by a lot of flashbacks stuff (watch the movie and you will know). The music was great I thought. Anytime Jay Chou gets involved in the music part, it's usually good stuff. Add the still passable fighting action to it and I think the movie is maybe like a 3/5. Maybe, oh well.
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Just to end off the post, if you didn't caught it on the news, I've got to tell you that our beloved (kinda)
Ah Meng died. Remember the 'Breakfast with an Orang Utan' programme? Yeah, that's the Ah Meng. Kudos to Ah Meng, RIP =)
