| Overview: | Suicide rates among Hong Kong school children have reached record proportions. Students of Form 5E Jubilee High School are a trouble-making class. These students have given up hope, but their new homeroom teacher, Mr. Au, has a different opinion.
During the course of the film, he helps to fix all of Jubilee's moral and spiritual cracks, culminating in a remarkable 11-minute dance number that truly sets IQ Dudettes apart from the scores of other Cantonese films produced in 1999.
The occasion is a dance contest in which Jubilee's high schoolers unite and show the world what they can do. The mini-musical's subject is a rock updating of the classic Butterfly Lovers, complete with tango (performed by Ng and pupil Judy (Sin Oi-lin)). It's a bold concept, and musical lovers will be heartened by the attempt to inject a reel-long dance into a Cantonese movie.
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