What's a guy/girl to do? Pert, boyfriendless Lam Lee Wing (Anita Yuen, who won an HK best actress award for this) is a big fan of HK pop-idols Rose (Carina Lau), who sings, and her lover Sam Koo (Leslie Cheung), who writes the songs. Keen on showing that pop-stars are like anybody else, Koo sends out a cattle call to make a star out of "the average guy"; Lam, who's light in the breast department, tries out as a guy and wins the contest! She moves into the couple's evenly split apartment, and it's not long before Rose falls in love with her; and no sooner does that get straightened out then Koo falls for her, too (all the while wondering whether he's become gay or not). The situation proves to be a little preposterous, but no more so than the Elizabethan role-reversal comedies of yore. A funny script with first-rate acting by Yuen. Opens with the trail-blazing use of the cockroach-cam.

(3.5/4)



[Reviewed by Steve Spinali]