King of Comedy
by Stephen Chow
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Actor: Cecilia Cheung, Jackie Chan, Joe Cheng, Man-Fai Cheng, Stephen ChowDirector: Stephen Chow
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Import, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-01-23
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Universe Italy
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DVD Review: Great comedy giving by Stephen Chow!
Summary: 4 Stars
Chow is the true soul of the film. This is a touching, mature comedy that will have you rolling in laughter while making you fall in love with the characters. In here Wan Tin-Sau (Stephen Chow) is a dedicated and aspiring actor but he has the habit of screwing up even small parts he gets. In between that he also teaches the art of acting and tries to put on plays in his local town. It's through his teachings that he meets club hostess Lau Piu-Piu (the lovely Cecilia Cheung from "Legend Of Zu") who wants to learn some acting tricks in order to make more money from her male customers. She gets the desired effect and the two also fall in love along the way. If that wasn't good enough Wan Tin-Sau gets the opportunity to play a leading role in a film against megastar Sister Cuckoo (Karen Mok from "God Of Cookery"). Jackie Chan does appear on this film but only as a cameo.
Stephen Chow and Lee Lik-Chi work very well together as directors. Over the years with him by his side, Stephen has really fine-tuned his comedy and directing skills, which resulted in him handling the latter duties all by himself on "Shaolin Soccer." I can't swear that this is the truth but the ideal way of working between the two should be that Lee Lik-Chi focuses more on the style of filmmaking while Stephen does his own brand of crazy comedy.
After a strange opening shot by the sea the movie kicks into high gear almost immediately. Stephen's knowledge and great vision of comedy is quickly apparent in the scene where his character, as an extra, manages to screw up a long and demanding John Woo-esque shot (where Karen Mok also makes her first appearance). Big credit has to go to action choreographer Bruce Law though who fires on all cylinders in this scene. I first saw his work on Kirk Wong's Gunmen and it's clear that his contribution to a project can mean a lot.
Throughout "King Of Comedy" I found that, by this point in his career, Stephen had the ability to make any comedy work, no matter how absurd it was. That's not at all easy to do and not something Wong Jing could do in his movies for instance. The visual humor dominates "King Of Comedy" and there's only a few moments where the humor is more dialogue based. The 92 minutes fly by quite fast and the script manages to develop the things it should. Neither director seems to want to distinguish themselves stylistically, which of course is a good thing in a comedy. We do see some effective uses of dissolves to indicate time passing but even within those the directors can't resist to insert more silly humor. I can honestly say that "King Of Comedy" is very good. Stephen Chow breaks new ground for himself and he definitely is Hong Kong's King Of Comedy.
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