Take Me
Director: Cha Cheun-yee
Year: 1991
Rating: 5.5
Lets get right to
the bottom line regarding this film or perhaps more appropriately the bare
bottom! This slight Cat III comedy starring Veronica Yip is not much more
than an excuse for a number of attractive females to get out of their clothing
as quickly and as often as they can. If there was a deep message hidden in
there I think I missed it. Watching this Veronica Yip vehicle it is nearly
impossible to see the same actress who was so impressive just within a few
years in mainstream films such as Roof with a View, Scarred Memory and 1941
HK on Fire. Of course there was not exactly a lot of opportunity to show
any acting ability when the script continues to make you show other parts
of your repertoire!
Veronica gets married and on her wedding night the husband is too exhausted
to fulfill his husbandly duties so Veronica goes from nurse to cheerleader
to traffic cop in order to get him excited. All too much so – as he keels
over and dies from a heart attack – but his ghost decides to stick around
and look after his wife. He constantly urges her to find another man to take
care of her, but Veronica is reluctant. Her friend throws a party at Veronica’s
house that turns into your typical orgy with couples in the closet, shower,
kitchen – all the usual places! Veronica doesn’t participate though and her
friend advises her that she has to get an active sex life going – “we are
concave and men are convex so it is only natural”. Or was it the other way
around? Anyway Veronica takes her advice and finds a boyfriend, but he disappears
into the sea – and then she is tied naked by robbers to a painter. Some guys
have all the luck!
So they become lovers, but the boyfriend reappears – and then it turns out
that her ghost husband is actually kind of jealous – and so forth. Why I
bother with any plot details I don’t know. Again the bare bottom is that
there is lots of nudity and Veronica looks . . . . good . . . very good.
In fact better than good.
