Out of the Dark 回魂夜

Released Year: 1995

Directed by 劉鎮偉 Jeffrey Lau

Casted by:

 周星馳 Stephen Chow as Leon

莫文蔚 Karen Mok as 阿群 Kwan

盧雄 Bryan Leung as 盧隊長 Mr Wu

李健仁 Lee Kin Yang as 大孖 Dai Ma

李力持 Lee Lik Chi as 細孖 Sai Ma

黃一飛 Wong Yat Fei as 鐵膽 Dan

黃智賢 Ben Wong as 阿強 Keong

 Story:

A proffesional ghost buster Leon is living with others psycho in the mental illness hospital, Kwan falls for his unique and bravery action. In an event which a son & his wife joint up to murder the poor mother. The spirit of the mother came back during the 7th day she passed away to inform the police who is the real person that kill her. After the truth was being told, the son and his wife suicident... 

Leon went to help a bunch of security who work in the building of the murder case. They manage to help the spirit of the mother who has been killed by her son and daughter in law. But the son and daughter in law has suicide in grudge and swear that they will be back on their 7th day to take reveng. Leon quickly work out a ghost fighting program to train the security and Kwan for the night... 

L² Scored: 7/10

L² Comment:

This might be the darkest film that Stephen Chow has acted/participated as at today. By hitting the 10th place in the HK blockbuster on the 1995, it is not one of the hits movie of Stephen Chow that everyone will keep repeating to watch. Seriously, this is my first time watching this movie, some part is a bit scary and kinda freak me out but the comedy part is funny as hell... And i love the pot of flower that him carry around, "Lily" is the name and it can detect ghost lol...

The Top Bet 賭霸

 Released Year: 1991

Directed by 劉鎮偉 Jeffrey Lau & 元奎 Corey Yuen

Casted by:

鄭裕玲 Dodo Cheng as 有喜 Yau Hei

梅艷芳 Anita Mui as 妹頭 Mui

吳孟達 Ng Man Tat as 黑仔達 Blackie Tat

秦沛 Paul Chun as 洪光 Hung Guang

劉鎮偉 Jeffrey Lau as 陳松 Chan Chung

盧冠廷 Lowell Lu as 堯哥 Rao

盧苑茵 Angelina Lo as 六姑 Luk

元華 Yuen Wah as 妹頭師父 Mui's master

鍾鎮濤 Kenny B as 大B

元奎 Corey Yuen as 賣魚盛 Fishy Shing

吳君如 Sandra Ng as 阿萍 Ping

周星馳 Stephen Chow as 左頌星 Sing

 Story: 

After Sing has won the competition last year, he went to travel and left Blackie Tat alone to face Chan Chung who has been challenged again by Huang Guang again. After searching up and down, Blackie Tat found Yau Hei who is believe to be the next gambler wonder. However, after introduced Yau Hei to Chung, Blackie Tat realized that Yau Hei is not as great as she said, they bet Sing's sister Mui for help. 

Mui is reluctant to help Hei at first, but after being help by Hei to know B more & knowing that Hei needs the money to save her sick brother, Mui decided to help Hei in beating down Guang in the next gambling competition...  

 L² Scored: 8/10

L² Comment:

This is the sequence of 赌圣 but Stephen Chow only came out in the beginning and end of the movie as a guest appearance... Dodo Cheng & Anita Mui tried to create the girl power but not really success like the first movie. Even so, both of them still managed to win some applause from their own fans for this movie. Too bad, there's no further sequence on this 赌霸 after this...

All for the Winner 賭聖

 Released Year: 1990

Directed by 劉鎮偉 Jeffrey Lau & 元奎 Corey Yuen

Casted by:

周星馳 Stephen Chow as 左頌星 Sing

吳孟達 Ng Man Tat as 黑仔達 Blackie Tat

張敏 Sharla Cheung as 綺夢 Yee Mung

劉鎮偉 Jeffrey Lau as 陳松 Chan Chung

秦沛 Paul Chun as 洪光 Hung Guang

尹揚明 Vincent Wan as Billy

元奎 Corey Yuen as 賣魚盛 Fishy Shing

吳君如 Sandra Ng as 阿萍 Ping

盧苑茵 Angelina Lo as 六姑 Luk

 Story:

Sing is a mainland China country boy who arrives in Hong Kong to visit his Uncle "Blackie Tat". When Sing stays with his uncle and his friends in their apartment, Blackie soon learns of Sing's supernatural ability to see through objects and, later on, his ability to change playing cards by rubbing them. He takes advantage of this and turns Sing into the Dou Seng or the "Saint of Gamblers". After getting into a fight with several alleyway gamblers he meets the lovely Yee-mung, a henchman for the "King of Gamblers", and becomes infatuated with her. Sing quickly becomes a rival to the King and must win his way through a world competition to prove his skill.

 L² Scored: 10/10

L² Comment:

In the year of 1990, Stephen Chow has shot total of 10 movies in that particular year and this movie has make the No 1 in HK blockbuster :) *applause... His extraordinaire way of acting not only make us laugh non stop, it will never bored us out in anyway... The funniest will have to be Sandra Ng who has to non stop hold her armpit up and let Stephen stared at the mole... lol

Chinese Odyssey 天下無雙

 Released Year: 2002

Directed by 劉鎮偉 Jeffrey Lau

Casted by:

梁朝偉 Tony Leung as 李一龍 Li Yilong

王菲 Faye Wong as 無雙長公主 Wushuang

趙薇 Vicki Zhao as 鳳姐 Phoenix

張震 Chang Chen as 正德皇帝 Zhengde Emperor

朱茵 Athena Chu as 情比金堅 Amour Amour

 Story: 

The film is set in Ming Dynasty, China. Ah Long is the town bully, known for his boorish manners and reckless attitude which have endeared him to no one, save his sister Feng who has a curious penchant for cross-dressing. It is apparent early on that both these siblings are such misfits they have virtually no prospect of marriage.

Faye Wong is cast as a runaway princess who is dressed as a man, a disguise which fools both Long and Feng. Long immediately decides that he likes his new-found friend so much that he will entrust his sister's hand in marriage to "him". The princess, of course, cannot marry another woman and tried to fend off Long's suggestions of a match; but also, she is attracted to Long.

Emperor Zheng De also leaves his palace temporarily to search for his missing sister. He dresses like a commoner and by a twist of fate meets Feng. He is smitten with Feng, and begins to court her, while keeping his imperial identity secret from her. His motives for leaving the palace also included the fact that he is unhappy and lonely at court and wants to escape the smothering influence of the Empress Dowager, his mother, who plays a dictatorial role in the actions of her son. A convoy of imperial guards try to protect him while he is out in town and bring the Emperor back to the palace, but unsuccessfully.

The Princess is also assisted by her "fairy godmother" in marrying her match. The Empress Dowager hears of her wayward children and storms Long's house, where her children are holed up, only to hear that they wish to marry two commoners with unwholesome and eccentric tendencies. The Emperor is adamant about marrying Feng and the Empress Dowager relents, but Long is unable to pass a "ring test" to prove he is the destined one and the Empress Dowager forbids his marriage to her daughter.

All ends well, however. After a separation, Long is enlightened by the "fairy godmother" and passes the "ring test". He is reunited with the Princess, the Empress Dowager accepts him, and happiness reigns.

 L² Scored: 3.5/10

L² Comment: 

A parody romance movie of the 龙凤店, how good is the movie? After many years later rewatching still makes me a bit wanna puke. Vicki Zhao is pretty and Tony Leung is good looking. The only thing i can't stand is Chang Chen's stupid afro and Faye Wong's bad acting... No wonder not much movies of her, lol~

92 Legendary La Rose Noire 92黑玫瑰對黑玫瑰

 Released Year: 1992

Directed by 劉鎮偉 Jeffrey Lau

Casted by:

梁家輝 Tony Leong as 呂奇 Kei

邵美琪 Maggie Shiu as 黃蝴蝶 Butterfly

黃韻詩 Wong Wan Shi as 豔芬 Fan

馮寶寶 Petrina Fung as 飄紅 Hong

毛舜筠 Teresa Mo as 周維娟 Juan

 Story: 

Butterfly is a writer who wrote boring story, Kei falls for her but later discover that Butterfly and her friend Juan were suspected to be the black rose gang. Both girls flee but Juan was caught by the gangster while Butterfly went into the black rose mansion. Both Hong & Fan is the apprentice of the black rose master; while Kei looks like their former lover. Hong lost her mind while Fan play with it and force Kei to marry her. When the gangster came with Juan, Hong woke up from her craziness and manage to defeat the gangster together with Fan. They know Kei is not their lover, therefore let him go. After that Kei and Butterfly live happily ever after~

  L² Scored: 8/10

L² Comment:

This is one of the classic comedy in the 90s of HK block buster. It has help Tony Leong won his first Best Actor award in HK Film Awards while Petrina won Best Supporting Actress. In the meantime Wong Wan Shi & Teresa Mo were also nominated in the best supporting actress category as well. Overall the movie is funny, but just some part which is a bit extra...

Mortuary Blues 屍家重地

 Released Year: 1990

Directed by 劉鎮偉 Jeffrey Lau

Casted by:

元奎 Corey Yuen as 石春 Chun

杜德偉 Alex To as 陳龍士 Shi

吳君如 Sandra Ng as 九姊 Gao

陳淑蘭 Sheila Chan as 阿秋 Chao

盧冠廷 Lowell Lu as 林老師 Lim

Story: 

 Gao & Chao got a map to find a treasure from the Qin Dynasty morturary, together with the 3 police officers, they went into it and battle with the Qin corpse to get the thing that they wanted.

 L² Scored: 5.5/10

L² Comment:

Well, seriously this kind of black comedy is often show on the 80s & 90s HK blockbuster and most of them have Sandra Ng in it. The storyline is quite normal and not very memorable, basically its just for a good laugh and not really gonna watch it unless i have nothing better to do so~

A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella 西遊記大結局之仙履奇緣

 Released Year: 1995

Directed by 劉鎮偉 Jeffrey Lau

Casted by:

周星馳 Stephen Chow as 至尊寶 / 孫悟空 Joker / Monkey 

朱茵 Athena Chu as 紫霞 & 青霞 ZiXia & QinXia 

羅家英 Lo Kar Ying as 唐三藏 Longevity Monk

吳孟達 Ng Man Tat as 二當家 / 豬八戒 Pigsy 

蔡少芬 Ada Choi as 鐵扇公主 Princess Iron Fan

莫文蔚 Karen Mok as 白晶晶 / 白骨精 Bak Jing Jing

藍潔瑛 Yammie Lam as 春三十娘 / 蜘蛛精 Spider Woman

Story:  

After travelling back in time, Joker discovers more about his past life and reunites with his master, Longevity Monk, and his fellows Pigsy and Sandy. However, he does not want to accept his fate as Monkey, because he just wants to get back Pandora's Box and return to 500 years later to save Bak Jing-jing. The fairy Zixia falls in love with him after he pulls out her sword from its scabbard because she once made a promise to love the person who can unsheathe her sword.

Zixia and Longevity Monk are captured by Bull King, who wants to take Zixia as his concubine and feast on the Monk's flesh to become immortal. Pigsy and Sandy try to rescue their master but the Monk refuses to leave unless Joker promises to fulfil his destiny. Joker goes off in search of Zixia, rescues her, and they flee from Bull King. In an ensuing fight between Joker and his companions against Bull King, Joker falls off a cliff and finds himself back in Waterfall Cave, where he meets Grandpa Buddha and Bak Jing-jing. Bak Jing-jing agrees to marry Joker initially, but she leaves later and tells him to save Zixia because she knows the one he truly loves is Zixia. Shortly after, Spider Woman comes to Waterfall Cave and kills everyone there, including Joker.

Joker, as a ghost, hears Guanyin's voice inside the cave again, reminding him about his destiny. He decides to accept his fate and puts on the golden headband, transforming into Monkey. He returns to the world and rushes off to Bull King's city to save his master and stop Bull King's wedding ceremony with Zixia. As he is now Monkey, he must relinquish all his human desires, including love, so he tells Zixia that he is not Joker and pretends to scorn her.

Monkey and Bull King engage in battle. When Bull King realises that he is losing, he uses Princess Iron Fan's magic fan to churn up strong winds that will blow the entire city towards the Sun. Monkey succeeds in stopping Bull King and saving everyone, but Zixia sacrifices herself to save him. As she dies, Monkey feels that he still loves her and his headband starts to tighten, giving him a headache. In anger, he beats up Bull King before escaping together with his master, Pigsy and Sandy, by using the Pandora's Box.

Monkey wakes up later and finds himself in a cave, but with his master and fellows this time. Outside the cave, in a busy city, Monkey sees the incarnations of Joker and Zixia in a standoff on top of a wall. He uses his powers to possess Joker's body and make Joker give Zixia a long and passionate kiss before leaving Joker's body. Joker recovers and is surprised to see himself locked in an embrace with Zixia, but accepts and continues the romance with her. They notice Monkey walking away in the crowd below. He does not turn back and continues on the journey to the west with his companions.

 L² Scored: 10/10

L² Comment: 

Second part of the movie rounds up the queries and question marks of the first movie. Of course this comedy film doesn't really based on the fiction in 100%, therefore we were curious of what is gonna happen in this part. Showing in the same year, the second movie rank 1 spot higher than then first one and landed in number 5 of HK blockbuster in 1995. While Yammie, Karen & ManTat did not occur that much, Athena & Ada appeared in this second part is also a wonderful arrangement as well.

A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box 西遊記第壹佰零壹回之月光寶盒

 Released Year: 1995

Directed by 劉鎮偉 Jeffrey Lau

Casted by:

周星馳 Stephen Chow as 至尊寶 / 孫悟空 Monkey / Joker

吳孟達 Ng Man Tat as 二當家 / 豬八戒 Pigsy

莫文蔚 Karen Mok as 白晶晶 / 白骨精 Bak Jing Jing

藍潔瑛 Yammie Lam as 春三十娘 / 蜘蛛精 Spider Woman

 Story:

500 years ago, during their journey to the west to fetch the Buddhist scriptures, Monkey got annoyed with the constant nagging of his master, Longevity Monk, and decided to betray the latter. He was intercepted and subdued by Guanyin, who decided to give him a second chance after the Monk pleaded for leniency.

In the present, Monkey has been reincarnated as Joker, the chief of a group of outlaws. Joker and his gang are attacked by two demons, Spider Woman and Bak Jing-jing, who threaten and force them to do their bidding. Joker's second-in-command (later revealed to be a reincarnation of Pigsy) secretly overhears the demons' plan to capture the Longevity Monk and feast on his flesh to gain immortality. On the other hand, Joker falls in love with Bak Jing-jing. Grandpa Buddha shows up in disguise as a bunch of grapes, informs Joker about the danger he is in, and gives him a magic mirror which can reveal a being's true form.

The group are later attacked by Bull King, who is also after the Monk. Joker and Pigsy flee with Bak Jing-jing and Spider Woman to Waterfall Cave, where the two demons start fighting over Joker. Bak Jing-jing and Joker eventually flee from the cave while Spider Woman becomes pregnant with Pigsy's child by accident. As Bak Jing-jing had been poisoned by Spider Woman, Joker goes back to the cave to ask for the antidote, but is imprisoned by Spider Woman. In the meantime, outside the cave, Bak Jing-jing is captured by Bull King, who cures her of the poison.

Inside the cave, Joker finds Pandora's Box, which can open up a time portal when moonlight shines on it and "Prajñāpāramitā" is chanted. He also overhears Guanyin's voice, telling him that he was actually Monkey in his past life and is destined to continue his quest to escort his master on the journey to the west. Meanwhile, Bull King and Bak Jing-jing enter the cave and start fighting with Spider Woman. Bak Jing-jing commits suicide after mistakenly believing that Joker has betrayed her love and fathered a child with Spider Woman.

Joker finds Bak Jing-jing and tries to save her by travelling back in time with the aid of Pandora's Box, but each time he arrives a few seconds too late to stop her from committing suicide. On his last attempt, however, he ends up going back in time to 500 years ago. Outside the cave, he encounters a fairy named Zixia, who confiscates Pandora's Box and sears three dots on the sole of his foot to mark him as her servant. He then looks in the magic mirror given to him by Grandpa Buddha earlier and is shocked to see a reflection of himself as Monkey.

  L² Scored: 10/10

L² Comment: 

 On the number 6 blockbuster of HK chart, the part one never failed to make me spit my rice out with laughter. I miss Yammie Lam, seriously not sure what happen to her, but she is very beautiful and her acting is quite good too even when she's in tvb. 

The Eagle Shooting Heroes 射鵰英雄傳之東成西就

Released Year: 1993

Directed by 劉鎮偉 Jeffrey Lau

 

Casted by:

張國榮 Leslie Cheung as 東邪黃藥師 Dong
 林青霞 Bridget Lin as 三公主 Princess
 梁朝偉 Tony Leung as 西毒歐陽鋒 Feng
 梁家輝 Tony Leung as 南帝段智興(一燈) Nan

 張學友 Jacky Cheung as 北丐洪七公 Hong

 王祖賢 Joey Wang as 小師妹 Shi

劉嘉玲 Carina Lau as 周伯通 Tong
 葉玉卿 Veronica Yip as 金輪國王妃 Empress
 張曼玉 Maggie Cheung as 金輪國國師 Fortune Teller

鍾鎮濤 Kenny B as 王重陽 Yang

Story:

In Jin Lun city, the empress and her cousin Feng try to grab the empire from the emperor, but the important chop is with the princess. The princess ran to seek help from her master, the master send Dong to accompany her to get the Jiu Yin Zhen Jin (the great martial arts book).

 

Along the way, they met Yang who was killed by Feng's flying shoe; Shi who followed them because she's in love with Dong; Tong who is a gay man that wanna seek revenge for Yang; Nan who wanna become a God and must reject his marriage with the princess while seek for his true love who has 666 at the chest; Hong who get rejected by Shi and forced Feng to kill him.

 

In the end, Feng get the Jiu Yin Zhen Jin and princess while the rest went to save the princess with the help of the fortune teller. Nobody can defeat Feng until the God Nan came and help them.

L² Scored: 10/10

 

L² Comment:

This movie has always always been my top 1 favorite comedy ever since i was a kid. Having all these fabulous actors/actresses in one movie is not easy. Especially after watching the serious version a moment ago, i love this movie even more~