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]