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| BOYS ARE EASY. Starring - Richard Ng - Brigitte Lin - Jacky Cheung - Tony Leung - Maggie Cheung. Director - Wong Jing. 1993. Ching Sing would love to see his three daughters married off but realises that the chances are slim as they are all wrapped up in their own busy lives? Busy my arse, ones a copper, ones a doctor and the other feeds pigeons! Anyway he and his son construct a cunning plan to get these three hitched, together they let the girls think he his dying from cancer, and that his dying wishes would have him see the three happily married, what a pair of cunt’s. Fair enough I can understand him wanting the layabouts out of the house, but that is taking things a bit too far. He might as well tell them that he has 2 weeks to live before his bulbous lovesacks explode and cast a toxic cloud all over down town HK killing anyone under five. Curiously the girls don’t seem too upset by the revelation that their father may only have six months left to live, callous bitches. The three heartless whores decide to respect their evil twisted father’s wishes by seeking out love and romance. One hires a male prostitute, one a triad and the last pretends to be a whore to lure a young man. Does their shame know no bounds? Wong Jings moneymaking machine was thundering along at full pace in the nineties, churning out movie after movie but unfortunately not all of them were classics. In this case the cash was won by the inclusion of an almighty cast, firstly guaranteeing a wide target audience and secondly by fooling us into thinking that it would be good. I can’t remember such a star-studded cast fucking a movie up this bad (in fact I tell a lie ‘Ashes of time’ just sprang to mind). The only person to actually capture my attention was Brigitte Lin, and that is only because I want her to have my babies. I shouldn’t really blame it all on the cast though as the story is so bad I can’t imagine anyone being able to do this travesty any justice. This is a no good comedy romance spoofing anything it can; the comedy is not my cup of tea to say the least. I can only hope that this is simply because my Western mind cannot cope with cultural humour. You only have to look at ‘My sassy girl’ to realise that comedy romances are plausible in this world but this type of comedy needs to be destroyed at first concept. There is simply nothing funny about spoofing Bruce Lee for the millionth time and this is about as good as it gets. At least Wong Jing got the title right; Boys are easy just about sums up the concept. After all how many testosterone driven males bought this just because it had Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung and Chingamy Yau in it? 2**stars. |
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