Hairspray

Released Year: 2007
Directed by Adam Shankman

Casted by:
Nikki Blonsky as Tracy Turnblad
John Travolta as Edna Turnblad
Michelle Pfeiffer as Velma von Tussel
Zac Efron as Link Larkin
Brittany Snow as Amber von Tussel
Queen Latifah as Motormouth Maybelle
Elijah Kelley as Seaweed J. Stubbs
Amanda Bynes as Penny Pingleton
James Marsden as Corny Collins
Christopher Walken as Wilbur Turnblad
Story:

In 1962, America still separate their skin color and the white don't really prefer the negro. Tracy the short and stout white girl and her friend Penny is fancy about the Corny Colins show. The show has dances and singings which create the dream for them.

The Corny Colins show have the Ms Hairspray Pageant every year and Velma the producer aka the choreographer always make fault result to let her own daughter Amber to win the crown. In one open interview, Tracy went for it but was humiliated by Velma and others of being ugly. Tracy being upset but later on get to join with the black people in their singing and dancing. The black people has their own show hosted by Motormouth Maybelle. After being encourage by Maybelle's son Seaweed, Tracy went over for the show and surprise everyone by her singing and dancing.

Corny Collins decided to put Tracy into his show but was strongly rejected by Velma and Amber. Luckily Tracy has her support from her mother Edna and father Wilbur. Edna even accompany Tracy to go for shopping and dress up well. But Edna was verbally attacked by Velma and Amber of being fat. Luckily Wilbur is there to assure Edna.

The one and only Negro show was cancel by the television centre and Maybelle brought along the black guys to protest. Tracy is willing to join force on the protest and put her career with the Crny Collins shows in risks. Tracy use the board to hit a policeman and she ran away. Afraid of being caught, Tracy went to see Penny for help. Penny being in love with Seaweed both help Tracy to sneak into the pageant. In the end, Ina, Seaweed sister won the Ms Hairspray Pageant. Velma's evil tricks was explore to the public. Corny even invite Maybelle to be one of the host in his show. Finally, Tracy and the handsome Link fall in love with each other.

L² Scored: 9/10

L² Comment:

Woah~ same like the musical film of Fame, i m very very very impressed with all these. It totally took my breath away. John Travolta is damn funny to be drag on the big mama character and zac efron is super super cute :)

The dance and songs are all nice. Highly recommended. 2 thumbs up :)

You Bet Your Life 一世好命

Released Year: 1991
Directed by 梁家樹 Tommy Leung

Casted by:
盧冠廷 Lowell Lo as 羅友 Yau
吳君如 Sandra Ng as The Wife
黃一山 Gabriel Wong as The Brother

Story:

Yau and his wife are both gamblers, despite to get good luck, they are willing to do everything to have it including sucks the smell of a corpse. But apparently they failed and they decided to take care of a ghost so that they can win in which ever gambling they go for.

They chose the spirit of a dead hooker who has a lot of grudge. The ghost make a deal with them, on all money that they win, they must spend every cents of it before 7am on the next day, or else the ghost is entitled to took their life away. The money face couple agreed and from that onwards they got a lot of money to spend on. Together with the brother, three of them have their best luck ever and started to spend well on their livings. But on one night, they accidentally won an extra 100 million, but luckily they were rob. On the 7am, they only discover that they still have 10 dollars left.

Afraid the ghost will come back and took their life, they seek for help from a monk who has a good moral. But three of them has failed the promise and the monk can't do anything to fight with the ghost but only make a new agreement. They have to gamble with the ghost and if they win they will be able to escape. But out of 2 first game, Yau and the brother has been sacrifice. It's only left Yau's wife to fight against the ghost. Luckily, the two man has already took up the solution of the poison.

When the third game was won, the ghost didn't wanna get away so the monk appeared and vanish her. Finally, the three of them are safe.

L² Scored: 5/10

L² Comment:

Sandra & Lowell is a good team in the comedy film as well, plus on with Gabriel, the 3 of them make me laugh non-stop like an idiot when i watched this movie last night. The movie is a bit out of "normal" stuff, but who cares right? This is a black comedy film and everything is possible~

Just Follow Law 我在政府部门的日子

Released Year: 2007
Directed by 梁智强 Jack Neo

Casted by:
Gurmit Singh as Lim Teng Zui
范文芳 Fann Woon Fong as Tanya Chew
林益民 Moses Lim as Eric Tan
Story:

Lim Teng Zui is a technician in WAS Singapore while Tanya is his boss. Tanya is high educated and always does her best in achieving higher position in the organization. In another hand, Zui is only happy go lucky and worry not much in his future and being irresponsible towards his job.

During a visit of the top management, Zui and gang move all the un-used but keep-able stuff in the parking lot by just taping up the boards. This cause the incident of collapse of the board and Zui was the one to be responsible. Getting mad and accused by Tanya, Zui drove and bang Tanya's car. Both of them were sent to hospital for coma.

But when they woke up, they are surprise that their soul exchange and went into each other's bodies. Zui in the form of Tanya started to spend money like water and simply approved everything for the department and later cause an over budget on the department expenses. Tanya in the form of Zui is trying hard to get into the life of doing all the hard job, despite that he also took up courses to make sure the current body she's owning deserved a better future.

Eric and others are always jealous of Tanya's intelligibility and try to get rid of her. They suggest to cut off the whole department of Tanya to safe cost. Feeling depress, both Tanya & Zui worked together for a large job fair to win back Tanya's portfolio and future. But Eric and gangs has been fooling around and try to make things worst. Fireworks has been having problem and burn the job fair, the top management managed to break down the wood with tapes and safe everybody life.

From the fire accident, both Zui & Tanya realized the important of their families. And the WAS has been closed down. Tanya & Zui wanted each body back but could not make it, in the end they decided to get marry and live happily ever after.

L² Scored: 7.5/10

L² Comment:

Jack Neo always managed to get me concentrate in his movie. Maybe Singapore's lifestyle is kinda same as Malaysia, that's why it can attract my attention. Everything goes "black & white" is exactly the same in my company :)

Gurmit Singh & Fann Wong's acting are no doubt the best and surprisingly both of them create such a nice film in their first time.

Fight Back to School 逃學威龍

Released Year: 1991
Directed by 陳嘉上 MH

Casted by:
周星馳 Stephen Chow as 周星星 Xing
張敏 Sharla as 何老師 Ms Ho
吳孟達 Ng Man Tat as 曹達華 Tat
張耀揚 Roy Cheung as 大飛 Fei
黃一山 Gabriel Wong as 黃小龜 Turtle
Story:

Xing has been chosen as a spy to sneak into the Edinburgh High School to get back the lost pistol of the general. Xing was supported by Tat as the school cleaner. To find out who's the one who stole the pistol, Xing has to study hard so that he can prevent from punishment and continue to stay in class.

In the meanwhile, 2 kids from high school has the gangster background and work for Fei. They have stole the pistol and always bully other students such as Turtle. Xing attended a call from the gang and managed to defeat them. After this, Xing has become the new leader in school and Turtle has become his assistant. But Xing wanted to cover up his real identity and get close with the beautiful Ms Ho.

Later on, Xing managed to found the pistol and resolved the school's gangster. The movie ends with Xing get to date the pretty Ms Ho with his real identity.

L² Scored: 6.5/10

L² Comment:

The movie earned the most in Hong Kong movie at the year of 1991 due to the fame of Stephen Chow. This movie really blasted me off with a lots of laughter when i was small. But now when i re-watch this movie, its kinda so so, but its wonderful for the scriptwriter to think of these kind of idiotic funny things.

Carved / Slit Mouthed Woman 口裂け女 (Kuchisake-Onna)

Released Year: 2007
Directed by 白石晃士 Koji Shiraishi

Casted by:
佐藤江梨子 Eriko Sato as Kyoko Yamashita
加藤睛彦 Haruhiko Kato as Noboru Matsuzaki
水野美紀 Miki Mizuno as Taeko Matsuzaki

Story:

People in town is busying talking about the slit-mouthed woman reappearing, everybody lives in horror. It seems like the mythology is real, during an earthquake, the slit mouthed woman appear and got a small boy with her in a playground. Yamashita is sending her students home. But Mika was caught by the slit mouthed woman in a sudden.

Before Mika was caught by the slit mouthed woman, she told Yamashita about her mother, Mayumi being violence with her and beat her when she's not obeying. This remind Yamashita about herself with her own daughther. In the meanwhile, another teacher, Matsuzaki suspect that the slit-mouthed woman is his mother Taeko who passed away 30 years ago.

Memories flashed back as Taeko was beating three of her children in the house. The 1st son and daughter were killed by her. But when she's about to kill Noboru, she accidentally slit her own mouth with a scissors and dead. Now, Taeko is back to hunt all the children.

Taeko's spirit goes into any woman who has cough and they will transfer become Taeko and kill children. Kyoko and Noboru found the shelter of Taeko and try to destroy her. But Taeko is unbeatable and too strong to fight against. Finally Noboru sacrifice himself and cut off Taeko's head when she took the body of Mayumi. Kyoko managed to brought Mika out of the house when another earthquake happened and Noboru and Taeko is burried in the basement.

Kyoko went to see her daughter, Ai to ask for forgiveness. But Kyoko suddenly cough and transfer into Taeko and killed Ai.

L² Scored: 2/10

L² Comment:

I thought i'm going to have a good scare of watching this movie, but no. It's so dull and not scary at all. The 2 score i gave is for the make-up or special effect on the slit-mouthed part. Overall, the acting part is kinda stiff also.

The movie suppose to bring out the horror part of Japan-Mythology, but apparently it did not. Can't even feel a tinnie-weenie bit of fear. Another *yawn yawn* horror film...

The Midnight Meat Train

Released Year: 2008
Directed by 北村 龍平 Ryuhei Kitamura

Casted by:
Bradley Cooper as Leon
Leslie Bibb as Maya
Vinnie Jones as Mahogany
Brooke Shields as Susan Hoff

Story:

Leon is hoping to achieve to another level in his carrier (photographer), but his work did not inspire Susan Hoff who's quite famous in the industry and going to have her own exhibition soon. Feeling sad and down, luckily Maya was aside him for the assurance.

One night, Leon managed to shoot some black guys trying to rape an Asian female model, Erika at the train station. He managed to shoot the photos and threatened them. The next day, Leon showed the photos to Susan and she was impressed. Susan promised if Leon can shoot the photo which showed the "heart of the city" then his work will be shown in the exhibition also.

But when Leon went home and read the newspaper, he found out Erika was missing. Tracing back the photo, he managed to see a hand appearing in the photo which has a special ring on it. Leon ignore Maya's advice and continue to follow Mahogany who Leon think he's the murderer of Erika case. Leon then found out Mahogany stay alone and work as a butcher. During one night of following, Leon was shocked to see Mahogany killed the people who took the last train. He smashed them with a heavy metal and stripped them naked and plug off their eyes, nails, teeth & hair. Mahogany knew that he was followed and smack Leon into unconsciousness.

Leon woke up in a deserted place and went home. He found out there's a symbol scratched on his chest and his camera was gone. Maya found out and found their best friend Jurgis for help. Both of them sneaked into Mahogany's apartment and found out a lot of the slicing tools. Unluckily, Mahogany back in a sudden and got Jurgis. In the meanwhile, Susan's exhibition is a succeed but Leon feel the urge to look for Mahogany and kill him.

To safe Jurgis, Maya went to take the midnight train. She found Jurgis hanging in the train but was unable to safe him. Mahogany discovered Maya is here and try to kill her. Maya shot the evil man but failed, the train passed to the dead tunnel and Leon managed to jump onto the train from one of the deserted train. Both Leon and Maya fought with Mahogany but he was too strong. Finally they have the chance and slit a knife into Mahogany's brain.

The train stopped at the final stop, the train driver told them the corpse are for the ancient monster to feed on. If there are no meat for them, the monster will come into the modern world and make a disaster. Both couple got afraid but Maya was cut alive and dead into half. Leon lost his mind. Later on, Leon took up the job and become the next killer on this midnight train.

L² Scored: 7/10

L² Comment:

This movie is based on Clive Barker's novel. Thrilling & horrifying. Kinda out of my expectation, it really scared me a bit. I m a horror movie freak and i seldom got scare like this. But you can feel the spooky of the movie by just imagine sitting alone in the train while the murder attack u.

Bradley is still yummy; love leslie bibb, she has a tough face but she can still acted like a soft woman. Vinnie Jones is an ex British football player who turned into actor few years ago. I think he didn't speak a word in this film, but he's good in the expression. :)

Recommend for horror movie fans.

Adnan Sempit

Released Year: 2010

Directed by Ahmad Idham

Casted by:
Shaheizy Sam as Adnan
Intan Ladyana as Nadia
Along Raja Lawak as Bobby
Norliana Samsuddin as Wawa

Story:

Adnan is known as a mat rempit (motorcyclist who disturb the traffic by showing off their reckless driving skills and stunt) in his company. Being a dispatch office boy, he falls in love for his pretty boss, Nadia. Nadia came from a rich family and Wawa is her secretary.

During one occasion, Nadia claimed that Adnan is her boyfriend just to attend a reunion party with her ex classmate. In such, Nadia suggest that both of them get to know each other by involving in each other life. Wawa also attached with Adnan's best friend, Bobby. Bobby is also one of them Mat Rempit. During Nadia's reunion, she claimed that Adnan will never be her ideal boyfriend due to his rempit-future. Adnan feel sad and left.

Bobby & Wawa suggest to open their own cafe with Adnan. Three of them work hard in a coffee shop to learn how to manage a cafe. While Nadia attached with another guy, Jofri. Jofri is Nadia's company competitor, he send another mat rempit, Zack to steal Nadia's proposal on a big project by snatch off her laptop. Without her laptop, Nadia is unable to present her work to the client the next day. But luckily, Adnan and Bobby get the laptop back from Zack. With the help of Wawa, Nadia's proposal was out and send to the client on time.

After the incident, Nadia doesn't mind about Adnan being the mat rempit and willing to be with him.

L² Scored: 5.5/10

L² Comment:

A new kind of movie from Malaysian production. Modern and its so Malaysian. So SLP, don't say i don't support local film ok? :)