MY KUNG FU SWEETHEART

Country: Hong Kong, China
Release Year: 2006
Genre: Martial Arts Comedy
Language: Cantonese
Running Time: 90 minutes

[Cast]
Yuen Wah
Yuen Qiu
Cecilia Cheung Pak-Chi
Leo Koo Kui-Kei
Wong Yat-Fei
Wong Jing

[Director]
Wong Jing


"CECILIA CHEUNG AND GANG STARS IN THIS CRAZY ROMP FILLED WITH SILLY GAGS MIXED WITH ULTRA-COOL MARTIAL ARTS ACTION, OH AND DID I MENTION CECILIA CHEUNG!!!"



Love him or hate him Wong Jing to me still delivers!!! He's not one of Hong Kong's finest directors or anything but boy does he have a wild imagination! I mean he's produced, and directed some of the funniest movies Hong Kong cinema has to offer.
I'm not a devoted fan of his or anything, but I'd still watch any movie he does it just would'nt be the first choice on the list. However, I just finished watching MY KUNG FU SWEETHEART (2006) and wow, was it fun!

If there is ever a movie one should not take seriously, it's this film. It's a very unbelievable, believable story. What I mean is, you know this movie was made suitable for all ages. Don't be fooled by Cecilia Cheung's bath scene on the DVD cover. It's nothing. This movie is indeed for all ages. The movie pokes fun at all Kung Fu cliches. Death healing palms technique, bath healing technique, Shaolin 18 Bronzemen breakdancing...yeah that's right, Shaolin breakdancing, etc.

The whole movie is almost like a Kung Fu satire mixed with great choreographed Kung Fu action. It's a light-hearted fun at the movies basically. Something to watch when you wanna laugh at silly looking gags, I mean some of the jokes are kinda corny but you still find yourself at least I did, laughing at the screen. It's almost as if Wong Jing wanted it to be a corny funny flick! I mean the movie features a Big Bird type of character! It's basically a guy literally in a Hawk suit! It's Phoebe's, played by Cecilia Cheung pet bird.

I know, I know let's move on...

...there's a whole lot of IN YOUR FACE gags, and silly comedy, and sometimes very corny scenes, but their meant to be there. For instance, a scene where Phoebe's parents are fighting this one bad-ass with a white hair and there's a lot of chaos going on. The whole place their fighting on is getting trashed Phoebe, and Dragon played by Leo Koo, recieves a double drop kick from the powerful white haired bad guy. As both of them hit the pavement with blood gushing from their mouths, that's when an out of place confession of love comes pouring out from Dragon's mouth and unto Phoebe's teary eyed acceptance of his love towards her.

It's silly moments like this that will drive you completely insane, it will make you think like....wait a sec...this is not really happening is it?...but then as soon as you're about to puke from all the corny-ness Phoebe's dad played by the awesome Yuen Wah, drops from the sky and in the middle of Dragon's, and Phoebe's love moment, and tells them "...hey you two, this is not the time for that help me kick this guys butt, and you can have all the time in the world..."

That's when I felt like, 'oh yeah this is a silly comedy filled with silly gags, and stupid humor', only then you'll move on to the next crazy scene. Watching MY KUNG FU SWEETHEART is fun, and anyone with a good sense of humor will get a joy out of its schizoprenic humor.

Evidently, Wong Jing wanted this flick to be a pure martial arts comedy. Indeed he does succeed on this note. Casting Cecilia Cheung is always a good move in any production, even if it is a convoluted CGI filled story like LEGEND OF ZU (2001) Honestly, she was the many reasons why I saw that flick aside from the CGI's oh and having Zhang Ziyi in the cast is also a big plus.

MY KUNG FU SWEETHEART is well worth watching. There are scenes that has crazy and stupid humor but that's the way it was meant to be executed.

It's the type of comedy done with a NO-NONSENSE delivery similar to Stephen Chow's crazy humor style ala' ROYAL TRAMP 1&2 (1992-1993)and his most recent ones, SHAOLIN SOCCER (2001), and KUNG FU HUSTLE (2005) the execution of the humor is not quite dead-on but it's pretty close.

Other scenes like the guy in the Hawk suit inside the bathroom using the toilet while reading a porn magazine. Really I'm not kidding! The suit is cheap-looking may I add. Yes, it's corny but it's so funny you'll literally laugh at all the sillyness of everything that's going on in the flick.

All the scenes with Cecilia Cheung are awesome, even the 14 year old girl that played as her in the beginning of the movie is good, what a cute little thing!!! Also worth mentioning is the guy that played as Dragon's best friend in the movie, I couldn't find his name although I've seen him in other Hong Kong flicks in the past he was pretty good, and very funny.

In conclusion, all the zany-ness of this flick will drive you absolutely insane, while laughing your butt off at the same time.