Jun 11 2020, 12:22 AM, updated 6y ago
Sai yau gei: Yut gwong bou haap (1995)
Fantasy adventure about the arrival of Buddhism in China.
When the Goddess of Happiness tosses the Longevity Monk and his disciples out of heaven (because the Monkey King tried to attain immortality), the Monkey King is reincarnated as the Joker.
He now spends his time chasing two jealous women. When one of them is dying, the Joker goes back in time in an attempt to save her.
DATE:
1995年1月21日
A Chinese Odyssey (Chinese: 大話西遊) is a pair of 1994 films, directed by Jeffrey Lau and starring
Stephen Chow, Karen Mok, Ng Man Tat, and Athena Chu. 朱茵
The first movie in the duology is A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box (西遊記第壹佰零壹回之月光寶盒) and
the second is A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella (西遊記大結局之仙履奇緣).
The films combine slapstick comedy, wuxia and a love story, and are loosely based on the Chinese classical novel Journey to the West.
Although filmed in Cantonese, it has become a cult classic among young Mandarin-speaking adults in most Chinese cities.
Run Time: 87 minutes
A Chinese Odyssey Part Two-Cinderella
西游记大结局之仙侣奇缘
英属香港：
1995年2月4日
Run Time: 99 minutes
本片于宁夏回族自治区银川市镇北堡西部影城拍摄，制片预算大约是二千五百万港元，在当时数目算很多。本片主要是借由票房保证的周星驰领衔主演而望有可观收获，惟最后票房仅比预算多一些，即使收回成本，也与过往周星驰电影的票房数字相差甚远（周星驰电影诸如《赌圣》以至后来的《食神》都收四千多万）。至于奖项方面虽然为周星驰赢得香港电影评论学会大奖最佳男演员及最佳编剧，此片在香港电影金像奖获得多项提名，最后却没有得奖。
Wildly ambitious and structurally frustrating, yet quite funny and entertaining, Jeff Lau's first film since the disappointing Chow Yun Fat vehicle Treasure Hunt花旗少林(29 January 1994) is also his best since his absurd 1993 masterpiece Eagle Shooting Heroes.
And while this two-part epic (Pandora's Box, the first installment, plays this weekend; the second film, Cinderella, comes in two weeks) never quite achieves the relentlessly inventive comic momentum of Eagle Shooting Heroes, A Chinese Odyssey: Pandora's Box does manage to surpass it in terms of sheer imagination and fantasy. Based on the legend of the Monkey King, the film offers an unusual mixture of Chinese mythology,
"Wu Xia Pian" fantasy, crude comedy, romance, melodrama, sci-fi, and, well - probably whatever else Lau could think of. Tc. A mischievous god who was destroyed some 500 years ago for his rebellious ways, the Monkey King holds the key to locating the powerful (and painfully long-winded) Longevity Monk, another mythological being whose very flesh is desired by the many gods and devils attempting to track him down.
The first installment unfolds gradually as various supernatural beings descend on Joker's camp, all attempting to accomplish two things:
figure out if he is really the Monkey King, and find and eat the much-sought-after Longevity Monk.
Director Lau keeps the pace moving at breakneck speed, filling the screen with enough comedy, romance, action, monsters, and special effects for two movies, while Chow and his trusty sidekick Ng Man Tat give deliriously comic performances appropriate to the picture's crazed goings-on.
Outrageous highlights include a giant spider monster that pulls the Joker's tooth, an incredible Fantastic Voyage-styled battle inside an opponent's body "Don't step on my intestines!" cries the King Bull), hilariously repeated time-travel attempts, and the most brutal penis abuse ever played for laughs.
This is one of the wildest fantasies that the Hong Kong cinema has produced recently, and also marks a solid comeback for director Lau, as well as yet another hit for superstar Chow. One complaint, though, is the abrupt, cliffhanger finale that ends, not unlike Back to the Future: Part II, right in the middle of the story, leaving viewers in suspense until the sequel arrives.
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