The most hilarious martial arts spoof I've ever seen
Written: Aug 31 '00 (Updated Sep 02 '00)
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Pros: Consistently hilarious and entertaining
Cons: Are you kidding? This movie rocks!
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| JavaDevil's Full Review: Love on Delivery |
While Chinese action & martial arts films have gained an audience in America, other film genres from our Communist buddies, such as comedy, have been completely ignored. When you consider that Hong Kong has produced a comic performer of the calibur of Stephen Chow, you can't help but feel bad for all the people who throw their cash at marginally-talented twits like Adam Sandler and The Wayans Brothers. And when you consider that something as painfully stupid & laugh-free as Scary Movie has become Miramax's highest grossing film of all time, it's not tough to figure out that we're going to be deluged by similar, dumb, raunchy movies from Hollywood soon. This reviewer recommends at least one alternative to the upcoming comedy apocalypse.
That would be Stephen Chow's fantastically funny 1994 film Love On Delivery. In it, Chow plays a sweet but hapless Chinese food delivery boy who falls in love with an attractive young Judo student (Christy Chung) he meets one day. The young lady's instructor is a pretty big jerk and makes unwanted advances towards her all the time. As a lowly worker in the food service industry, what else can our hero Chow do but learn kung-fu and beat the stuffing outta this guy?
So Chow meets up with an old man (Ng Man-Tat) who claims to be a martial arts master and asks the man to train him. It doesn't take us long to realize that this guy isn't much more than a con artist but the dim-witted, love-struck Chow eagerly rushes into his training. This, of course, leads to some of the film's sillier, Karate Kid-esque sequences.
As in most parodies, Love On Delivery contains a number of references to things in pop culture, including bizarre (and gut-busting) stabs at Ultraman and Terminator 2. One of the more memorable parts is a scene in which Stephen Chow gains fame as a vigilante who wears a Garfield Halloween mask. And, just as Mr. Miyagi teaches the secret Crane kick move to young Daniel, Chow learns his master's ultimate fighting technique: the uproarious Invincible Wind & Fire Wheel!
Since this is a spoof of martial arts films, there has to be a big fight at the end and this movie delivers. Not in the sense that Jet Li or even Jackie Chan would deliver it, mind you, but in a crazy, spastic, hilarious way that only Stephen Chow could do.
I'm not sure what more I can say about this movie other than I love it to death. While some of the humor is uniquely Oriental in character, I think that most of it would go over well with Western audiences. Especially this one scatological scene that reminded me of the Farrelly Brothers. So, in conclusion, I give my highest possible recommendation to Love On Delivery, a shining example of the brilliance of comedian Stephen Chow.
Recommended:
Yes
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