Love Cruise

 

Director: Dick Cho
Year: 1997
Rating: 4.0

It's almost embarrassing admitting to the fact that I watched this piece of fluff. The only reason I rented it was the poster that displayed the charms of six very lovely ladies all decked out in swimming attire on a cruise ship. But this is strictly a PG rated teen comedy that does have a few (very few) amusing pratfalls and sight gags along with the lovely ladies. Most of it consists of stupid humor of guys falling into the swimming pool and getting knives stuck in their rear ends.  It gets tiresome fairly quickly but then the girls show up again and you can just do the male gaze. They are all very pretty. But there are really only four women that the film focuses on.


The plot revolves around a gossip magazine run by Vincent Kok attempting to get pictures of stars in compromising positions and some tiresome guys chasing after the beauties. They are all total nerds and it is an insult to all men they they actually get the women in the end. This is more a fantasy then a comedy. Most of it takes place on a cruise. The girls are named Cookie, Jelly, Candy and Cherry. Who could resist that. The four actresses were all fairly popular back in 1997 with Annie Wu, Kristie Yeung, Suki Kwan and Angie Cheung. The first two were the cutie pie nice girls in most of their roles while Suki and Angie could play bad and sexy. They were all in some very decent films at the time but none of them quite made it to that next step of being a star. The guys that chase after them are all irritating - in particular the always annoying Natalis Chan and the nearly equally annoying Emotion Cheung, though in Bio-Zombie as the shushi chef he was kind of sweet.  They don't even make silly films like this any more - at the time movies with titles like Love, Amoeba Style, Love . . Love . . . Love and Love is Not a Game but a Joke were quite popular but they ran their course. All filled with attractive women. Not that I like these types of films but I miss the fact that Hong Kong doesn't make them any more.