Dummy Mommy, Without a Baby (2001)
Reviewed by: MilesC on 2002-02-07
Summary: Okay
I suppose I should've reviewed this one sooner, as it's largely gone from my mind. Here's what I recall:

Miriam Yeung looks a bit like Charlie Yeung and acts a LOT like Sammi Cheng.

I have to give Edison Chen credit for never having replicated the incredibly annoying quality of his debut in Gen-Y Cops.

The female second-banana (I've forgotten her name, but she also appeared in Fighting For Love) is extremely attractive and got a huge, surprised laugh from me at one point, the only laugh of the film for me.

It looked like this was going to be a film with a black character who actually didn't have a joke made at his expense, but no, they had to throw one in...

I found that given the implausibility of the scenario, the movie didn't go quite far enough as a farce. Overall, the film is watchable enough and has a WAY above average theme song, (I don't like pop music at all, but it's fairly catchy) but it doesn't really go beyond its gags, and they aren't good enough or plentiful enough to make the movie more memorable. To be fair, it's gotten better reviews from Cantonese speakers.