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(Beijing Weekend)
Updated: 2007-07-09 09:59
Director Francis Ng (left) stars in Dancing Lion with Lam Tse-chung and
Anthony Wong (right).
Local satire reigns with Dancing Lion, a funny but chaotic comedy that
puts the "Hong Kong" back into Hong Kong film. This film is filled to the
brim with the Hong Kong spirit. When times are tough, people become
creative in their attempts to make a living, and Hongkongers seem to be
experts in this area. When faced with life-threatening situations, they
often come up with brilliant, although at times, hilarious and even
unrealistic solutions.
In this film, Ah Kai (Francis Ng) and Ah Kao (Lam Tse-chung) face the
threat of retrenchment unless they can prove that they wield some
marketable talent. Uncle (Anthony Wong) inspires them to attempt to live
up to their family legacy and learn the lion dance. But before they could
get their show on the road, the company closes down. The dejected pair
plops down on the pavement wearing their lion suits, and they
unintentionally become the center of attention. Within minutes, they've
become an unexpected hit.
Things get out of hand as dancing lions swarm the streets of Hong Kong
until the government steps in with restrictions. Things get even worse
when they appear on TV and unwittingly reveal all their scheming and
scamming. Then, they encounter rival dancing lions. They lose everything,
including the true spirit and culture of the lion dance, and they again
need Uncle to set them back on the right path.
The cast is supreme, the lions are adorable, and the lion dance
performances are top notch. The dances in the film also feature some new
moves that are sure to wow audiences.
This movie is also riddled with cameos by artists, such as Ronald Cheng
and Chin Ka-lok.
A particularly enjoyable part comes toward the end of the movie, when
on-camera dialogues seamlessly fuse with off-camera bantering.
Cinema viewers have gotten used to having a good laugh at the end of a
movie when NG (no good) shots are aired, and this is definitely a
refreshing and enjoyable break from the norm.
The film's director and producer Francis Ng could care less about what
people think. Ng has always been known as a bit eccentric in both his
acting and filmmaking choices, and popular appeal has never seemed to be
a factor in his previous directorial efforts.
Ng and co-director Marco Mak manage to make Dancing Lion fun and clever
while ingeniously sidestepping any quandaries of narrative deficiency by
simply ignoring them.
Dancing Lion is running at cinemas citywide till the end of July.
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