| The office setting from Needing You is spiced up with sensibilities from La Brassiere, with added mutation for Raymond Yip's Beauty And The Breast. His handling of the tone is early on already wrong when setting up his terrible male characters. There is no way these should or can be redeemed, but of course, movies such as these go the idealized and predictable ways so what are you going to do? For starters, romance and comedy should not register low! Seeing as Yip manages to actually do that, Beauty And The Breast is simply best avoided.
Admittedly, Francis Ng manages to squeeze actual humour out of the unsympathetic character of Mario and the subsequent physical change he goes through but that's Ng bringing something, not being supported by the director. His sidekick Daniel Wu hardly feels like he's in this picture, nor does Michelle Reis. Although forced and very expected, Lam Tze-Chung (Shaolin Soccer) manages to strike a minor chord with the audience though. |
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