This Josephine Siao showcase should have been a much better movie. The dialogue writing is sharp, funny, and outrageous. But the story-telling is flawed: cliched, rushed, and full of an embarrassing number of loose ends and non-sequiturs. Perhaps Raymond To's play told a coherent, interesting story. But in cutting the script down to a 90 minute movie, too much was left out. While it's always nice to see Anita Yuen in a new movie, her character here seems arbitrarily thrown in and poorly integrated into the story. The cinematography is inventive. But in a movie about music, such a treacly film score (by the usually reliable Otomo Yoshihide) doesn't cut it. On the positive side, Josephine Siao has brilliant material to play with. Her furiously fast, unselfconscious, deadpan comic delivery is a hilarious to watch. She is also brilliant in the Cantonese opera scenes: she sings (I don't think she's dubbed here) and is a pretty limber dancer, too. Josephine Siao the comedienne can pull all this off, seemingly effortlessly. But the filmmakers' touch here is too heavy and to keep up with her. Still, Hu Du Men is a must see, if only for Siao's dazzling performance.