Reviewed by: Stephe Date: 01/27/2011 Bachelors Beware is a comedy, and perhaps I didn't watch it with the right mindset, having just recently seen the wrenching Cathay melodrama Devotion, but there's something about star Linda Lin Dai that hasn't clicked with me yet. My only previous encounters with her had been the Shaw Brothers films Love without End (in which she plays a woman with a terminal disease) and The Lotus Lamp, in which she plays a fairy, and so her impish role in this film wasn't something I was prepared for. Zhang Yang plays the part of a playboy with three girlfriends, and Lin Dai plays his cousin come to visit and woo him. Straightaway, she sizes up her competition and sets to derailing all her cousin's relationships in quick succession. My trouble was in identifying with her rather than with the put-upon recipients of her machinations. I guess this is understandable after having seen several Cathay dramas in which the long-suffering female leads fall victim either to others or to circumstance. Against type, the wonderful Dolly So Fung plays a rich socialite, and Zhang Yang is uncharacteristically delightful. After having watched more Cathay comedies, including the Linda Lin Dai-starrer Cinderella and Her Little Angels, which I rather liked, I realize that I might have misjudged Bachelor's Beware. In that case, I'd rate it a 7 instead of a 6. Reviewer Score: 6