You know, I've watched over a hundred Shaw Brothers-made movies, and LET'S MAKE LAUGH is the first one that I've actively disliked. That's a pretty impressive feat, and lies mainly in the fact that this is a romantic comedy, and I tend to avoid them like the plague because I hate the genre as a whole. Still, the Shaw connection saw me watching this, and I wish I hadn't. BEHIND THE YELLOW LINE, a similar rom com from the studio, was much more fun.
Kenny Bee (a notable Hong Kong comedian) plays a bumbling security guard who for various reasons becomes obsessed with a young woman, played by the irritatingly noisy Cecilia Yip. He hangs around in her house and scares her a lot, while other romantic characters come and go. It's a bit like the humour from the MY LUCKY STARS films, except without the action or the funny actors to go with it. There's endless comedy here and none of it is funny, and about the only good thing in this film is the presence of pre-fame actors like Anita Mui and Wong Jing. Charlie Cho, the lawyer who keeps getting his glasses broken in the POLICE STORY series, has a small role too. The only scene I liked is the dream sequence in which Bee finds himself a hero in a traditional Shaw martial arts film - that's the movie I wanted to see. The ending to this film is peculiarly downbeat, too.
Kenny Bee (a notable Hong Kong comedian) plays a bumbling security guard who for various reasons becomes obsessed with a young woman, played by the irritatingly noisy Cecilia Yip. He hangs around in her house and scares her a lot, while other romantic characters come and go. It's a bit like the humour from the MY LUCKY STARS films, except without the action or the funny actors to go with it. There's endless comedy here and none of it is funny, and about the only good thing in this film is the presence of pre-fame actors like Anita Mui and Wong Jing. Charlie Cho, the lawyer who keeps getting his glasses broken in the POLICE STORY series, has a small role too. The only scene I liked is the dream sequence in which Bee finds himself a hero in a traditional Shaw martial arts film - that's the movie I wanted to see. The ending to this film is peculiarly downbeat, too.
