Boys are Easy
Director: Wong Jing
Year: 1993
Rating: 8.0
What an absolutely funny movie
and a feast for the eyes. I was either in a very silly mood when I watched
this or it is just hilarious. It is about a father, Richard Ng, who is worried
that his three daughters will never get married so he tells them that he
is dying and that his last wish is to see them with boyfriends by his birthday.
So the girls frantically scramble around to show up with a man for this dinner
so that he can die happy. Now one has to suspend belief a bit as the three
daughters have to either pay or trick or persuade men to pretend to be their
boyfriends. Suspend belief because the daughters are played by the incredible
trio of Brigitte Lin, Chingmy Yau and Maggie Cheung. Yow !!!. All three as
you might imagine are stunning in this film.
The boyfriends that
they end up with are not too shabby either - Jackie Cheung, Tony Leung Ka
Fai and Ekin Cheng (Dior Cheng at the time). The relationships of all three
couples are just so silly that you can't help but find them funny. Chingmy
pretends to be a prostitute to feed her sick mother, Maggie is adorable when
she takes on the image of a tough triad moll to rope in Jackie and Brigitte
is very funny as she does her gender blender thing with Tony Leung.
There are just lots
of silly bits and pieces such as the HK Olympic Triads in which the long
jump was performed in cement shoes and the relay race uses a machete as the
baton or there is a musical number performed in a bowling alley. This film
never takes itself seriously for a second and is constantly throwing some
nonsense at the viewer. I found nearly all of it quite amusing. Besides the
six leads and Richard Ng, the film has a wealth of other talent in smaller
roles. Sandra Ng, Shing Fui-On, Ken Lo, Helen Law Lan, Yuen King-Tan and
Jimmy Lin also have parts. Ah, the days when so much talent could be put
together!
There are versions of this film that cut out sections. No idea why. But
if there is no bowling musical number, you have a cut version.
