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3.20/5

jeffy	3.5
François	3	A new efficient comedy for the quatuor Ching Wan / Louis / Hing-Ka / Patrick
Alain	2

A new efficient comedy for the quatuor Ching Wan / Louis / Hing-Ka / Patrick

After a very efficient if not revolutionary "The Bra", and a more disappointing "Mighty Baby", the team composed of two directors (Patrick Leung / Chan Hin-Kar) and two males stars (Lau Ching-Wan / Louis Koo) is back with a third comedy, talking this time about the new trendy topic in HK: sex. The recette is the same as before: a new topic, some female stars to complete the cast (here Sammi Cheng and Charlene Choi), some romance, some funny gags but never too crazy or silly. The result is certainly not original or surprising, and even if some may be tired to see some many comedies like that in Hong-Kong, there are still enough funny scenes to enjoy it.

Two scenes should draw your attention here: the one where Louis Koo got shot in the... well, you know, and the one where Lau Ching-Wan shows Louis some exercises to gain back his manhood. Both are really hilarious, the first one thanks to metaphores used to explain the "problem", and the second because it's just too silly. The use of Lau Ching-Wan as a womanizer while the handsome Louis Koo plays an impotent guy is surely a good idea, especially with the skills of Ching-Wan to play the comedy.

Of course, the romance part is very conventionnal, Charlene and Sammi are never up to Ching-Wan's talent, Patrick Leung would have preferred to direct a drama or something more serious. But at least, there are some very good laughs in there, and the rest of the movie isn't too boring to follow.

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FILMBeast	5
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Good Times, Bed Times Review

Good Times, Bed Times Director: Patrick Leung Stars: Sammi Cheng Sau-Man, Louis Koo Tin-Lok, Lau Ching-Wan, Charlene Choi, Lam Suet Synopsis: Sexual escapades with Louis Koo who can’t do it and Lau Ching-Wan who won’t. Hi-jinx aplenty. Reviewed by FILMBeast Secure your tits ladies and gentleman because you may well laugh them off. I’m still gasping for breath and I saw it twenty four hours ago. Good Times, Bed Times is a comedy and a damn good one at that, maybe one of the best ever. Its laugh out loud, uproariously funny and there’s a fantastic Hong Kong flavor to boot. Sammi Cheng, Louis Koo, Lau Ching-Wan and especially Charlene Choi all turn in performances that make a mockery of their usual selves. Its different, its risqué and its probably turned out better than expected. First things first, this isn’t your usual Sammi movie. As part of a large ensemble cast, she gets about the same amount of screen time as the other three leads. She and Louis roughly share half the time, while Lau Ching-Wan and Charlene get the other. It’s a bit strange at first but that quickly dissipates when you realize the movie keeps the predicaments and hi-jinx coming thick and fast. Sammi plays a gossip journalist, Carrie, who investigates on a story about a policeman-cum-tv-model Paul Ko (Louis Koo) being unable to perform in bed. Ever since a tragic matrix-like shoot-out ‘its’ been as soft as marshmallow (see for yourself). She ends up falling for him but he warns her that he won’t be able to please in that department. Meanwhile Carrie’s ex, Raymond, who is a horny bastard (Lau Ching-Wan) is confronted by a feisty and equally horny member of the opposite sex, Tabby (Charlene Choi in a role that will sell truck loads upon truck loads of DVDs). The problem is that he has morals too (he’s a judge) and she’s too young for him to mess around with. Or is she? The film travels on the barest of narrative threads and rests purely on the laurels of the quality of jokes and the comedic performances of the stellar cast. And it works. Some of the jokes literally sent me into fits (have 000 ready on speed dial), but then again I’ve got a soft spot (no pun intended) for penis jokes. Its not all sexual innuendo though, each of the actors have scenes where they send up their pretty boy/girl image. Or in Lau Ching-Wan’s case, his wannabe sexy image. In an absolutely classic scene Wan Gor is asked to audition for a cookie advertisement where he has to “shake, shake, shake everybody”. Its just platinum gold. It doesn’t stop there and that’s where the film’s appeal lies. The movie piles on joke after joke. Wan Gor is then made to advertise beauty products where he gets a facial and its all done to a rather cheesy taste backed by a well executed performance. What will also help it at the box office is the performance of one half of the pop duo Twins, Charlene Choi. I won’t say anymore other than suggesting that your eye balls will be bulging out of your sockets. Sitting near a bunch of girls, there were a few cries of the universally renowned Honkie saying of ‘Ai-ya’, which for this movie roughly translates to “oh my god she’s taken her clothes off!” Rest assured it’s still a Hong Kong comedy, but there are some daring performances involved. Meanwhile Sammi and Louis get their fair share of laughs as well, as they follow up on another story on adultery within one of the triad heads. What results is more predicaments, more sexual tension and more of what you just saw. For a film with an abundance of jokes, funnily enough (no pun intended again!) the sum of it is definitely more than its parts. Sure there was no blood and sweat lost over the story, the photography or anything else of note in the production values, the fact of the matter is that the director Patrick Leung is a comedic beast. And that’s enough for me to award it a FILMBeast gold award. It’s the best Hong Kong movie this year by a long long mile. Visit http://free.hostdepartment.com/f/filmbeast

Charlene rules!