Tricky King (1998)
Reviewed by: grimes on 2000-04-09
This must be Hong Kong's answer to Dumb and Dumber. Eric Kot plays Ohmygod (yes, that's really the character's name), a schlemiel who loses his job and dignity to the King of Tricks. He ends up working for the Supreme King of Tricks (a different person) as a disciple, along with several other apprentices.

The bulk of the film follows the Supreme King and his crew as they are hired by Go Lumbus (I love these names. His wife is Go Zilla), to humiliate his half sister so she'll be disowned. Ohmygod's love interest, Dkny (Athena Chu), works as a nurse for Mr. Go, their father.

The film is basically a series of gags, some of which are quite good, some of which are quite dumb. The film has a very cartoonish atmosphere, including one gag that seemed to come straight out of a Road Runner cartoon. In addition, a well known Warner Bros cartoon theme plays several times throughout the film (the fast xylophone music heard during many a chase scene in cartoons). There is also a great Storm Riders parody which was one of the best moments in the film.

It's basically mindless humor, but it is pretty funny. If you have 95 minutes to kill and you don't want to think too hard, you could do worse than to watch Tricky King.