A good straight comedy. Many things are right about this movie: it's good to see a strong energetic camera style again, amidst healthy production values. Fine comic performances by a uniformly excellent cast: Yuen Wah makes a mean comedian and is still a dazzling acrobat; Wu Chien-lien, in her best role since Treasure Hunt last year, is lovely, funny, and gives her character some real depth, and Lau Ching Wan is at his best (I think, but I'm in a real minority here) with this kind of zany, manic persona. The script was unusually grown up, subtle: a lot of the humour came from amusing little quiet moments, precisely timed. For the first half hour, the movie looked ready to take off somewhere special; then it started to ramble slightly and settled into being merely very good.