Se diu ying hung: Dung sing sai jau (1993)

Se diu ying hung: Dung sing sai jau: Directed by Jeffrey Lau. With Leslie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung. A parody of Louis Cha’s renowned novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes. The story begins with the Queen of Golden Wheel Kingdom and having an affair with her cousin West Poison, both of whom are planning to take over the Kingdom. The 3rd Princess discovered their treason but she was defeated by West Poison. She flees and sought for her master’s help. He spoke of a powerful secret martial arts manual hidden in the mountains, which if she could retrieve and learn, she would be able to defeat West Poison. But things get complicated along the way when West Poison beat her to it and stole the secret manual away. She soon gathers an alliance to challenge West Poison’s exponentially increased new power.

“This movies is best viewed as a series of sketches with a loose background story. Iu0026#39;d previously watched it on VHS but I think somebody borrowed and never returned it as it has gone missing. I finally got the DVD version and watched it today. Itu0026#39;s a no frills DVD – looks like itu0026#39;s been transferred straight from video.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAnyway, it is as funny as it was the first time round. I had such a stomach ache from laughing so hard and I could feel the tears welling up.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003enThe most memorable u0026#39;sketchesu0026#39; are: Jacky Cheung vs Tony Leung in the forest (this one is long and just hilarious from beginning to end) and the dancing and singing number with Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Ka Fai. There are other funny moments throughout but if you get the humour, then these two scenes will kill you. The 4 above mentioned actors give the funniest perfomance.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003enOne thing that has to be said is that I watched a Cantonese version which had Chinese and English subtitles. If these English subtitles are the only translation available then I feel sorry for anyone watching with those as they are truly dreadful. Some of the lines are literally translated (resulting in nonsense) and others, I have no clue what script they are translating from. Shame really, as the delivery of some of the lines is just too funny, especially from Tony and Jacky. Brigitte Lin has also got to be the most beautiful woman in the film and Leslie is cute, cute, cute.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe only weakest link to me was Veronica Yip whou0026#39;s popularity at the time had recently risen due to baring all in some movie or other. Hence her appearing in a movie with all these huge stars. I have no complaints with the other actors. Carina Lau is one of my favourite actresses. She does a good job albeit in a slightly kooky role. A lot of overacting at times but itu0026#39;s goes with the spirit of the film – itu0026#39;s just for fun and I sure had a lot of it from watching.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003e8/10, mostly for the laughs.”