The Romancing Star (1987)
Reviewed by: mpongpun on 2004-03-05
Crazy flick but quite enjoyable. It looks like Wong Jing tried to squeeze some of the “Star” juice, as in LUCKY STARS by mixing in his trademarks (cute ladies, poking fun at top popular HK flicks) with the goofball humor from the LUCKY STARS films. All in all, the flick is quite stupid and not original as Wong Jing has recycled the same type of plot devices in his other late ‘80’s early ‘90’s flicks. Basically, this flick when broken down is about these three guys and their Boss who try their hardest to woo two beauties. Big Mouth Fat (Chow Yun Fat) gets Tung Tung (Maggie Cheung) and the rest of the stooges are left to fight over Man Chi (Cheung Lai Ping). The best part of the film is Wong Jing poking fun at other movies such as Sammo Hung’s HEART OF DRAGON and John Woo and Chow Yun Fat and his role in A BETTER TOMORROW. There’s even a Brother Ho in this flick who appears from time to time in the flick but you never see his face. Decent flick.