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 Mermaid 2016 美人鱼 2016

 Released Year: 2016

Directed by 周星馳 Stephen Chow

Casted by:

鄧超 Deng Chao as 劉軒 Liu Xuan

林允 Lin Yun as 珊珊 Shan Shan

羅志祥 Show Lo as 八哥 Octupus

張雨綺 Kitty Zhang Yu Qi as 李若蘭 Ruolan

Story: 

Playboy business tycoon Liu Xuan purchases the Green Gulf, a wildlife reserve, for a sea reclamation project, and uses sonar technology to get rid of the sea life in the area. Unknown to him, the Green Gulf is the home of merpeople, and the sonar has caused many of them to die or get sick. The few survivors live in an abandoned shipwreck in the gulf, and want to assassinate Xuan for his deeds. The merfolk send Shan, a beautiful mermaid who's trained to walk on her fins and hide among humans, in a "honeytrap" plot against Xuan. On the night of Xuan's party celebrating his success, Shan, pretending to be a dancer, gives her telephone number to Xuan.

Xuan, believing that Shan is a prostitute, calls her number in order to make his business partner jealous. Shan goes to Xuan and tries to kill him but her attempts keep backfiring. In the end, Xuan decides to send Shan back home, and along the way Shan takes him to a funfair that she works at. While there, Shan tries to show Xuan there are more important things than money, and Xuan is impressed with Shan's simple, funny antics. They spend the day together and develop feelings for each other. When Xuan finally takes Shan home, Shan quickly sends Xuan away before her people can kill him. The next day, Xuan takes Shan for another date and proposes, but Shan rejects him.

That night, Xuan goes to Shan's house to talk to her, and discovers the truth that she and her family are merpeople. Against Shan's wishes, the others capture Xuan and tell him how he's killing them with his development project. Xuan is about to be killed when Shan helps him escape. Xuan returns home and, after the shock has worn off, decides to investigate the effects of his project. He turns off the sonar but mistakenly tells his business partner that Shan is a mermaid and where the other merpeople live. The merpeople are attacked, and many of them are killed. Xuan arrives in time to save Shan before she's killed, and sends her back into the ocean so she can escape.

Three years later, a student arrives at Xuan's home to thank him for setting up a scholarship for research into environmental protection. The student asks Xuan whether merpeople are real and the story that he fell in love with a mermaid is true, but Xuan denies it. Xuan then introduces the student to his wife "Lucy", who is actually Shan.

 L² Scored: 8.5/10

L² Comment:

After the movie started to show in the cinema on first day of Chinese New Year 2016 (08/02/2016), the gross profit of this movie has swipe a new record and become the highest gross profit movie of all time in China. The movie is not bad, but just feel something missing, not sure what it is... but something not right... maybe I miss Stephen Chow :(

The God of Cookery 食神

 Released Year: 1996

Directed by 周星馳 Stephen Chow & 李力持 Lee Lik Chi

Casted by:

周星馳 Stephen Chow as 史提芬周 Stephen

莫文蔚 Karen Mok as 火雞 Turkey

谷德昭 Vincent Kuk as 唐牛 Bull Tong

吳孟達 Ng Man Tat as 財團老闆 Uncle Rich

李兆基 Lee Siu Kei as 鵝頭 Ngo Tau

劉以達 Lau Yi Tat as 夢遺大師 Mung Wau

薛家燕 Nancy Sit as 薛家燕 Nancy

羅家英 Law Kar Ying as 食神大賽司儀 Host

Story: 

Stephen Chow, is a corrupt celebrity chef who secretly knows very little about cooking, runs a successful business empire, and is willing to hawk any product for a price. Arrogant and cocky, Chow is dubbed the "God of Cookery" and appears as a judge for culinary competitions rigged to make him look good.

Bull Tong, posing as an understudy and conspiring with Chow's business partner to overthrow him, exposes Chow as a fraud during the opening ceremony of Chow's 50th restaurant. Bull is declared the new "God of Cookery" and takes over Chow's corrupt empire. Ruined, Chow lives on the streets in an area known as Temple Street. There, he orders a bowl of "Assorted Noodles" from disfigured and uncouth food cart owner Turkey, and criticizes it for its lack of taste, terrible preparation, and unsanitary ingredients. During a heated exchange, Chow demands respect and reveals himself to be the fallen "God of Cookery", but then begs her for some money. Thugs beat him for his panhandling, but Turkey orders them away, taking pity on Chow and giving him a bowl of barbecue pork on rice. Chow is moved and declares it delicious.

Turkey and her rival street vendor, Goosehead, conduct gang warfare to see which vendor can sell the two best-selling dishes: beef balls and "pissing" shrimp. Chow manages to unite the two rival vendors by combining the two dishes into a new dish, "Pissing Beef Balls", which the three of them could sell together. It becomes a huge success, and the vendors convince Chow to enroll in a culinary school in order to reclaim the title he lost, but not before he discovers that Turkey idolized Chow as the "God of Cookery", and received her scarred appearance after fighting a local gang leader who ruined her poster of Chow.

The success of the "Pissing Beef Balls" alarms Bull, the new "God of Cookery", who arranges for Chow to be assassinated on the way to culinary school. While searching for the school, Chow finds that Turkey has followed him, asking him to complete a drawing of a romantic heart for her as a souvenir for her to remember him by. Knowing she is in love with him, Chow callously rebuffs her. Turkey reminds him of all she did for him, including her injuries, but Chow retorts that he never asked for her to do those things for him. As he tells her he can never love her, Turkey sees the approaching assassin and is shot in the face, taking the bullet for him. Chow, also presumed dead, disappears.

One month later, Bull enters the "God of Cookery" competition as the heavy favorite to retain the title. Chow arrives at the competition at the last minute, and reveals to Tong what had happened: Chow escaped the assassin's second bullet, and found his way to a Shaolin monastery, where head monk Wet Dream (a spoof on the Chinese word for nocturnal spermatorrhea) nursed him back to health. However, Wet Dream would not allow Chow to leave the temple until he was well-versed in the ways of the Shaolin arts, a point made moot when it is revealed the culinary school he was going to attend was, in fact, the temple's kitchen—the same kitchen Bull had trained at for 10 years, but subsequently dropped out of. While training, Chow continually mourned for Turkey, and was overcome with grief and remorse over his careless treatment of her. The depth of his feeling, which caused his hair to grow white, convinced Wet Dream to allow him his departure from the monastery.

The competition between Chow and Tong begins in earnest, with the two attempting to make identical "Buddha Jumping Wall" dishes. Each chef tries to sabotage the other's dish in a comedic wuxia fashion by attacking the other using their ingredients and kitchen implements, but Tong prevails when Chow's ex-business partner makes Chow's container explode with a bomb. With few materials and little time remaining, Chow prepares "Sorrowful Rice", a simple dish of barbecue pork rice, the same dish Turkey first gave to him while he was living on the streets. Although "Sorrowful Rice" is the better dish, Tong had already blackmailed the judge into rigging the contest. As Bull is fraudulently crowned the winner, Chow remarks that there is no one "God of Cookery" and that any person who cooks with heart can be the "God of Cookery". In an act of divine intervention, the Imperial Court of Heaven descends upon the competition and reveal that in another life, Chow was a heavenly assistant to the Kitchen God, before being sent to Earth to live as a human as punishment for revealing culinary secrets to mankind. Moved by his sorrow and his humbleness, they forgive him. They then transform Chow's former business partner into a form befitting his treachery: a bulldog, and leave a gaping hole on Bull Tong's chest, possibly symbolizing his heartlessness (whether he is killed by this is never revealed).

After the competition, Chow celebrates Christmas with his vendor friends in Temple Street, where Goosehead reveals that Turkey survived the assassination. She caught the bullet meant for Chow with her gold-plated teeth and a dentist reconstructed her dental work and even threw in a free plastic surgery on her face, making her pretty again. As she appears before him and asks how she looks, Chow responds by throwing her the completed drawing of two arrow-pierced hearts.

 L² Scored: 10/10

L² Comment:

This legendary comedy movie of Stephen Chow is at Number 2 place of HK blockbuster in 1996. With a lot of Mou Lei Tau scenes but yet very laughable; some of them even make me wanna punch their faces lol~ This should be the first try of Karen Mok of getting herself so ugly; but it has also successfully raise her fame to another level as well~ The rest of the characters were not bad as well, Vincent Kuk is very good in doing this kind of character, hope to see more of him in front of the camera as well 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

Sixty Million Dollar Man 百變星君

 Released Year: 1995

Directed by 葉偉民 Raymond Yip

Casted by:

周星馳 Stephen Chow as 李澤星 Lee Chak Sing

吳孟達 Ng Man Tat as 達叔 Tat

梁詠琪 Gigi Leung as 蟲蟲 Chung Chung

徐錦江 Elvis Tsui as 姜司教授 Professor Chang Sze

孫佳君 Pauline Sun as Bonnie

 Story: 

Lee Chak-Sing is a rich kid living in Hawaii. He's arrogant and fond of playing mean tricks on everyone around him. His life changes when he meets Chung-Chung, a young woman whom he declares is very ugly.

Tat (Ng Man Tat), Sing's loyal assistant, is revealed by Sing's mother to be his true father. He is then faced with a decision: Accept Tat as his father and lose his inheritance or continue to call the other man his father and live in the lap of luxury. He chooses his father.

Sing offends local crime lord Fumito by dancing with Fumito's girl in a Pulp Fiction-inspired dance contest. In a fit of rage, Fumito orders his henchman Mark to kill Sing.

When Tat comes to rescue his son, both are caught by Mark and tied together in a bathroom stall, where Mark planted a bomb. Sing chops off his arm and manages to let his father escape on an ejector toilet seat, leaving Sing to apparently die in the explosion.

Sing's brain and lips are recovered. There is technology to construct a new body for him at the cost of $60,000,000. However, since Sing renounced his rich father, he doesn't have the money. Tat can only provide $6,000.

Chang, offers to create a body for $6,000. After some trial and error, such as creating legs out of arms, Sing is transformed into a cyborg.

To fool Fumito, however, a funeral is staged for Sing, where he hides to watch. The only person to attend is Chung-Chung, who is unaware of Sing's true fate, and mourns his death. When Sing sees this, he feels remorse for mistreating her (and everyone else).

Two years later, he gets a job as a teacher at one of the worst schools in the area. He is harassed and assaulted by the students, culminating in Sing being "crucified" on the front gate of the school with his (low-cost) garden hose genitalia hanging out. Chung-Chung also works at the school, but has matured and is no longer the awkward, unattractive girl that Sing knew. She also has a rich fiance with a fancy sports car.

That evening, in a fit of despair, Sing attempts suicide but is stopped when Chang delivers a new microchip he's been working on. The microchip enables Sing to transform into many different household appliances and makes him nearly indestructible.

Sing returns to the school and corrects the anarchy, serving as a superhuman disciplinarian. Under his care, all the students become diligent and hardworking.

Sing's fame catches Fumito's attention. He sends Mark to finish Sing off, but Mark fails. The henchman tries to escape, but Sing kills him by twisting his body into a human basketball. Using his wealth, Fumito has Mark rebuilt into a powerful cyborg with shape-shifting abilities.

Mark infiltrates Sing's wedding party as Sing's old friend Siu-Fu, but Sing sees through the disguise. In the ensuing chaos, Sing is apparently killed in an explosion. To everyone's surprise, Sing returns as a powerful old lady, resembling a Park'n Shop mascot, in a bulletproof robe. Ultimately, Sing transforms into a microwave oven and traps Mark inside, burning him to death. Fumito is disposed of soon after.

 L² Scored: 8.5/10

L² Comment:

Among the movie of Stephen Chow, this is the craziest in my opinion. Placing itself in the top 3 at HK blockbuster in year 1995, Stephen Chow once again prove that his comedian act is nothing lesser comparing to others actors... He makes us laugh and makes us relax... what else do u want? Don't ever miss out this classic comedy movie, which apparently also one of the earliest movie which Gigi Leung appeared...

Fist of Fury 2 新精武門: 漫畫威龍

 Released Year: 1992

Directed by 左頌昇 Cho Sung Sing

Casted by:

周星馳 Stephen Chow as 劉晶 Jing

蕭芳芳 Josephine Seow as 牛牡丹 Dan

陳百祥 Natalis Chen as 牛皮 Pi

張敏 Sharla Cheung as 阿敏/婉君 Mandy / Kwan

元華 Yuen Wah as 橫刀 Dou

鍾鎮濤 Kenny B as 瀟灑 Smart

 Story:

After Jing won the championship previously, he was being chased down by Dou who came to revenge for his brother. Jing hide at Pi's house in a village together with his aunty, Dan who are well verse in kungfu. Jing saw Kwan who looks exactly like Mandy, Kwan falls for her while Pi falls for Kwan (Kwan is Pi's cousin). Josephine tried to train Jing in fighting after Jing discover she is good in fighting. Jing use electric fist and finally defeat Dou in the fighting ring~ 

 L² Scored: 8.5/10

L² Comment:

Continuous from his previous work in 1991 (Fist of Fury 1), the second movie seems better especially with Josephine as the main actress... Sharla Cheung shows us how gorgeous her boobs are in the wet scene~ Overall i kinda love this movie and will watch it again if i'm free :)

Fist of Fury 1991 新精武門1991

 Released Year: 1991

Directed by 左頌昇 Cho Chung Sing

Casted by:

周星馳 Stephen Chow as 劉晶 Ching

鍾鎮濤 Kenny B as 瀟灑 Smart

張敏 Sharla Cheung as 阿敏 Mandy

元奎 Corey Yuen as 霍環 Fok Wan

尹揚明 Wan Yeung Ming as 鄭威 Cheng Wai

 Story:

Chow stars as Lau Ching, a mainland country boy hoping to earn a living in Hong Kong. Upon reaching Hong Kong, he finds his luggage stolen, but soon becomes fast friends with the thief, Smart. Together, they try to improve their financial situation through various odd jobs, until Smart discovers Ching's special ability, his extremely strong right arm, and then convinces him to enter a martial arts tournament in the hopes of winning the prize money. The two soon learn that they need to be registered with a school in order to compete. Some scenes do bear some resemblance to Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury including the dojo fight where the Japanese man is forced to eat the sign.

 L² Scored: 8/10

L² Comment:

Though there's a lil part of comedy inside, but this is mostly about action on fighting. Stephen Chow seldom acted in this kind of movie, except the very first movie of his... Overall it is not bad. Beside having the same title as Bruce Lee's old film, there is nothing similarities about it, so don't confuse on it~