The Lady Is the Boss (1983)
Reviewed by: mpongpun on 2002-06-08
I thought this flick and My Young Auntie where very similar. Instead of focusing on the family relationship such as My Young Auntie , this flick focused more on the student to teacher relationship. When you throw in the way that traditional gung fu is taught to the modern student, that is, strict, stern, no frills style of the old school traditional school juxtaposed to the modern, laid back, “fun” way of the new school style, you will have a movie formula that should be a bunch of fun. Right? Not quite. The flick just basically just sails on through for about an hour or so as the modern style of gung fu led by the daughter of the Hua Chiang gym, Chan Mei Ling (Kara Hui), butts heads with the former Sifu of the gym, Wang Hsieh Yun (Liu Chia Liang) in their ways of teaching the handful of students of the gym. All the students practically leave Wang Sifu for Mei Ling. How sad! Eventually, Mei Ling gets into trouble with the local gang bosses (Lung Tien Sheng and Wang Lung Wei) over the beating of some her students. Eventually, Sifu Wang must save Mei Ling’s hide and man, does he ever! The last 20 to 30 minutes are the best part of the flick. Fights, fights, fights galore. There is a pretty decent scene with Kara Hui and her gang roughing up the baddies on their bikes. Shortly after, you’ll get to see old man Liu Chia Liang get down in a bar and in gym as he fights Wang Lung Wei and makes him look stupid. Hsiao Ho doing his mad monkey fist on the bad guys was a sight to behold. This guy is amazing! The last twenty minutes alone is all you need to see.