Year:
1992
Cantonese: Luk Ding Gei II Ji San Lung Gaau
Mandarin: Lu4 Ding3 Ji4 II Zhi1 Shen2 Long2 Jiao1
Director: Wong Jing, Gordon Chan Car-Seung
Cast: Stephen Chow Sing-Chi, Brigitte Lin Ching-Hsia, Michelle Reis (Lee
Ka-Yan), Chingmy Yau Suk-Ching, Cheung Man, Damian Lau Chung-Yun, Yang Yee-Kwan
Running Time: 90 min
Laser Disc: MAChingmy Yau is the cute sister of the Emperor, who in the end
became a concubine of Wei Xiao Bao. Loosely based on the same story by Jin Yong as Royal
Tramp I. The evil queen is back! This time played by the magawoman, who else - Brigette
Lin. This time, the queen falls in love with Wei Xiao Bao and they fight more bad guys.
RFC - Showboy, the
good-for-nothing tramp who became the Emperor's confidant, continues his gambling, whoring
ways. Little does he realize that a succession of plots have been hatched to kill him.
Again, he must rely on his wit, if he is to keep his position...as well as his life...as
well as the Emperor's sister for his wife.
SS - (**1/2) In an
action-comedy almost as wacky as the original, Brigitte Lin is a mighty priestess and head
of the Heaven and Earth Society, with a coven of girl initiates who dress in diaphanous
gowns. She's so powerful that the government gives her a poison that will liquefy her
within hours unless she has sex, and then 80% of her powers will transfer to her partner.
Lovable con-man Stephen Chieu happens to he around, so she engulfs him in a twirling
maelstrom of her gowns that turn into a cocoon. United with a force of kung fu lovelies,
they seek to overthrow a government conspiracy and maintain the Ching Dynasty.
JY - (***1/2) Chow
is back--and this time, he's got to thwart not a simple assassination attempt on the
Emperor by an upstart attendant, but a civil war that might rupture the empire itself.
Luckily, he has luck on his side. Plus the most powerful aphrodisiac in the world...with
which he snares Brigitte Lin (well, actually it's not HIS doing exactly. Ahh, see the
movie). Some funny fighting, an absolutely brilliant sting scene where Chow and co. souse
a rebel warlord and his son. |