Stalking Sammo Hung, Joyce Godenzi, and Simon Yam
Watching…
If you are looking for a sign that Hong Kong is lifting itself out of the abyss it’s film industry collapsed into in the early days of the new millennium, Kung Fu Chefs is not the sign for which you are questing. It’s cheap, shoddy, sloppy, and generally idiotic. But it’s not lazy, it’s not mean-spirited, and it’s not lethargic. This isn’t the kind of movie that will turn someone into a Hong Kong movie fan, but if you’ve been one for a long time, and you remember the old days of renting VHS tapes from the local Chinese grocery store and sifting through all sorts of goofy junk while boiling your bag of frozen potstickers, then you might, like me, find a movie worth enjoying amid all this nonsense.
#1 by Blake on June 27, 2010 - 7:20 pm
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One movie that predates “The Chinese Feast”, although it is a somewhat little film is “Shogun in Little Kitchen”, directed by Ronnie Yu and starring Yuen Biao.
#2 by KeithA on June 28, 2010 - 3:08 pm
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Oh yeah. Forgot about that movie. I don’t think I ever got around to seeing it.
#3 by Blake on June 28, 2010 - 5:19 pm
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You should review it as part of a Seven Fortunes/Kung Fu Cooking bit.Yuen Bun, who was a Seven Fortunes troupe member, choreographed “The Chinese Feast.”
#4 by Blake on July 31, 2010 - 1:58 pm
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I finally saw this and enjoyed it. It’s fun and it’s always great to see Sammo go whammo! (even at almost 60).