Every Dog Has His Date (2001)
Reviewed by: mejones on 2002-03-21
Summary: Big disappointment
Danton tried to review this a while ago but couldn't seem to get past the first 20 minutes. The good news is, I watched the whole thing, the bad new, it IS a fairly lacklustre affair. Personally, I blame the script for taking a somewhat original idea and making it boring!

The story basically begs the question "what would happen if your favorite dog became human?" Michelle Reis is Sharon, extremely successful at her career (which was what? producing fashion show?), surrounded by friends, but unlucky in love. Her loyal golden retriever "Man" (AHAHAHHAH!) can tell a loser more easily than she can, swayed by their good looks and charm as she usually is! Nick Cheung plays a propman named Fai who Sharon hires for a job. A more dog-like man could hardly be imagined and this aspect of his character is overplayed a bit, so it's not surprising that when a freak accident occurs causing dog and man to switch bodies, Fai is pretty comfortable in his new role!

Man as Fai has it a bit more difficult, as you can imagine. His adjustments to life as a human could have been much more amusing, especially give Cheung's comic talents, so again, I can only blame the script here. The only ones he can really talk to are his old dog buddies, so there are lots of scenes of Cheung interacting with various dogs, who keep reminding him he's a human now.

Blah blah blah, I won't go into too much more. There's a subplot of Man trying to fix Sharon up with her vet, who's totally obsessed with her. Man's reasoning being "you're beautiful, he's handsome, it's a match". Not everything works out quite as you'd expect it to, it's just a shame that given a solid cast and what I thought was a good premise the production didn't turn out better.