SInce I'm now staying in Thailand for two months, I thought I ought to see at least one Thai movie. Just for culture sake. This movie probably wasn't the best choice.
Maybe I just don't understand the Thai sense of humor (some ladies behind me seemed to enjoy the movie a little too much in my opinion, and couldn't stop laughing), but I just couldn't get a smile on my face during the whole flick. The jokes didn't got more funny than dumb dancing, making weird faces and big screams. I can enjoy "simple humor" like people scratching their balls or something like that, but even when the actors really tried to be funny in the simplest way they failed horribly.
You cannot expect the plot to be clever in a movie like this. It was a sort of Thai version of Scary Movie. Therefore I won't go in to this.
The story had enough openings to make it funny. There where three plot lines: the incapable undercover police that tries to stop the bomber, one loony guy that tries to find some relic in the psychiatric institution, and three guys that try to rob the institution. Only the fact that all of this happens in a madhouse should have made it really easy for the writers of the script to make viewers laugh, right?
I really hope Thai cinema has more to offer than Dumber Heroes. Actually, I expect it does offer more since I saw some nice looking trailers before the movie. Maybe I'll go there next week
Maybe I just don't understand the Thai sense of humor (some ladies behind me seemed to enjoy the movie a little too much in my opinion, and couldn't stop laughing), but I just couldn't get a smile on my face during the whole flick. The jokes didn't got more funny than dumb dancing, making weird faces and big screams. I can enjoy "simple humor" like people scratching their balls or something like that, but even when the actors really tried to be funny in the simplest way they failed horribly.
You cannot expect the plot to be clever in a movie like this. It was a sort of Thai version of Scary Movie. Therefore I won't go in to this.
The story had enough openings to make it funny. There where three plot lines: the incapable undercover police that tries to stop the bomber, one loony guy that tries to find some relic in the psychiatric institution, and three guys that try to rob the institution. Only the fact that all of this happens in a madhouse should have made it really easy for the writers of the script to make viewers laugh, right?
I really hope Thai cinema has more to offer than Dumber Heroes. Actually, I expect it does offer more since I saw some nice looking trailers before the movie. Maybe I'll go there next week