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珠光寶氣 (1994)
Whatever You Want


Reviewed by: bastardswordsman
Date: 03/06/2002

Directed by Wong Jing, you may have guessed that WHATEVER YOU WANT would be a ridiculous farce. However, the humour is slightly more developed than in his usual disposable efforts - not just the brilliant parody scenes either.

Anita Yuen is fully charged, displaying those qualities missing from today's crop of HK actresses, a quality and charisma that I pine for. Ahhhhh. Sigh. The others: Michael Wong I never have objected to and here is no different - in fact, his performance is not that bad. Jordan Chan is his usual self (nothing bad implied) and Christy Chung again displays that she cannot act, but as she is ridiculously fit, one does not care two hoots.

The afore/elsewhere mentioned parodies are excellent, most notably the ridiculing by Wong Jing of Wong Kar-wei. The ASHES OF TIME scene left me choking. Law Kar-ying pops up in most, if not all of these scenes and his inclusion really adds to them. I would love to know what the b&w film towards the end is supposed to be.

To conclude, blah, blah, blah - it's mindless nonsense from Wong Jing Wai and recommended!


Reviewed by: hktopten
Date: 12/21/1999

Run of the mill Wong Jing picture with its moments. Among thehighlights are Wong Jing's trademark parody of SPEED and Wong Kar Wai's films. Anita plays a daydreamer who works for her superwoman half sister (Christy Chung). When she is asked to find jewels for her sister's ad campaign, all she found are three pearls with a magical genie (Michael Wong Mun Tak) inside.


Reviewed by: kjohnson
Date: 12/09/1999

Although the overall plot--about a genie (a topless Michael Wong) coming to live with a woman who's obsessed with movies (Anita Yuen Wing Yee)--is a mess, the humor is very funny and makes the movie worth seeing. The movie contains priceless parodies of Wong Kar Wai and Ashes of Time and even makes fun of Wong Jing! Recommended.


Reviewed by: hkcinema
Date: 12/08/1999

A movie with moments of brillance despite its ludicrousness although much of time it just feel bland and derivative. The hilarious "Wong Jing-Wai" bashing scene in the cinema might be use as a rebuttal to people who argue that Wong Jing has no real cinema knowledge. (The scene has a farce discussion on phallus/castration symbolism which are Lacanian constructions in psychoanalysis. Check out influence of Jacques Lacan in art cinema.) By the way, I enjoy BOTH Wong Jing and Wong Kar-Wai films.

(5.7/10)



[Reviewed by Christopher Fu]


Reviewed by: spinali
Date: 12/08/1999
Summary: NULL

Ko San Ping (Anita Yuen, cute as always) who can barely keep a job, finds three magic pearls in an antique store that give her three wishes via a barely clothed genie named Bolobolo (Michael Wong). But what she really wants is to meet her long-estranged conductor/director (!) sister Pearl Ko (ultra-cute Christy Chung). They both end up chasing after the studdly genie, who's perrturbed about all this attention be cause, well, being a god-in-training, he doesn't have "a dicky." The romance is okay, but the film parodies are what make this one roll: included is a wild satire of Speed (with Yuen as Sandra Bullock), Chinese Torture Chamber (with Yuen getting tortured with office sup plies [!?]) and Christy Chung's clunker Mermaid Got Married; but HK art-film director Wong Kar Wai gets the worst of it -- his Ashes of Time is recast with a hideous female impersonator playing Brigitte Lin's role (!) and Chungking Express (which is actually a great movie) gets some nasty jibes, too.... Maybe there are too many HK in-jokes for the domestic crowd.

(3/4)



[Reviewed by Steve Spinali]

Reviewer Score: 7