PRINCE CHARMING is another knockabout romantic comedy from the Shaw Brothers stable, directed by Wong Jing and featuring most of his favourite actors. This is one of my least favourite genres of cinema, but this film's a little better than others I've watched, with a fast pace, plenty of incident, and humour closer to that found in '80s martial arts films than in straight romance flicks. Kenny Bee and his buddy are on holiday in Hawaii and chasing girls, but of course they get caught up with rivals and gangsters and the usual quirky types. This is a film that benefits from a decent cast, with old reliables like Charlie Cho and even Michael Chan Wai-Man showing up (the latter displaying an unexpected talent for comedy). Rosamund Kwan and Maggie Cheung are here too and both youthfully beautiful.
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Maggie Cheung's debut.
morrison-dylan-fan21 August 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Taking a close look for the most obscure in the bundle of Shaw Bro titles about to leave Netflix UK, I was excited to find that one of them was Maggie Cheung's first credit,leading to me meeting prince charming.
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Looking as cute as a button, Maggie Cheung gives a sparkling debut performance as Kitty, thanks to Cheung clawing into each one-liner with a breezy, flirty delivery,whilst Cherie Chung hits the meet-cute Rom-Com notes perfectly with her crisp, funny turn as May.
Crowning his prince charming into romantic escapades, the screenplay by writer/director Jing Wong serves up a mix of the sweet with the gross-out, via easy-going, lightly comedic exchanges between Li and May as a romance blossoms, which gets jammed with odd set-pieces,which include Li being super glued to a toilet seat by cheeky Kitty.
Leaving Hawaii behind to romance in Hong Kong, director Wong unwraps a Rom Com atmosphere across the screen with glossy, fluid dolly and panning shots catching Li chatting up the ladies, which springs out to funny wacky-music backed close-ups on the gross out big punchlines,as the prince loses his charm.
View on the film:
Looking as cute as a button, Maggie Cheung gives a sparkling debut performance as Kitty, thanks to Cheung clawing into each one-liner with a breezy, flirty delivery,whilst Cherie Chung hits the meet-cute Rom-Com notes perfectly with her crisp, funny turn as May.
Crowning his prince charming into romantic escapades, the screenplay by writer/director Jing Wong serves up a mix of the sweet with the gross-out, via easy-going, lightly comedic exchanges between Li and May as a romance blossoms, which gets jammed with odd set-pieces,which include Li being super glued to a toilet seat by cheeky Kitty.
Leaving Hawaii behind to romance in Hong Kong, director Wong unwraps a Rom Com atmosphere across the screen with glossy, fluid dolly and panning shots catching Li chatting up the ladies, which springs out to funny wacky-music backed close-ups on the gross out big punchlines,as the prince loses his charm.
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