Badges Of Fury is a Jet Lee Hong Kong film that came out earlier this year. It's a makes-no-sense kind of action comedy. In fact, both of our movies have that in common. It's kind of reminicient of Scary Movie, or Stephen Chow's films. Jet is a cop and the people on either side of him are his co-workers. The guy's his younger and more inexperienced partner and the woman is his boss. The other two women play sisters. Someone kills four men with the same type of needle shot into their armpits. It's death by acupuncture. The clues point to first one sister and then the other. There's plenty of goofy comedy though some of the jokes might not be as funny to Western tastes there's nothing really offensive. There's a fair bit of romance and the girls are pretty. There's plenty of fighting, running, jumping and shooting as the cops go about their investigations. Some of the action has a bit of digital help, besides the wire removal type work. CGI houses in Asia are coming along really well, their only limitation is the film budget. In a chase Jet Li jumps down a stairwell and floats several stories before touching down in front of the fleeing crook. The CGI didn't look as good there but most of the rest worked well. There's plenty of nice shots of the city and it's buildings. I enjoyed it and laughed out loud once or twice. I might want to see it again. It only scores a 4.4 on the IMDb but I think it should be somewhere between 5 and 6. It's not perfect but for the right eyes it would be entertaining enough to waste the time on it. I don't think I need to buy one. Unless it shows up really cheap.
Dasepo Naughty Girls is a 2006 Korean comedy set in a high school. Sperhauk had noticed it on one of the streaming services that he gets with his Roku and thought it had potential. It does. Like I said, it shares the makes-no-sense genre with our first movie. It's also got a heavy touch of the fantastic, one of the students is a cyclops. Of course the other students pick on him. His sister is a dude. One of the boys falls for her then finds out she's got a penis. He's bummed out. There's a lot of high school romance as well as some social commentary about the poor. One of the girls wears a plush human shaped doll on her back. She carries her poverty with her. Pretty allegorical for a goofy comedy, huh. Near the end it climbs off her back and leaves. There's a good bit of nice CGI. It's used to pump up the color to create a more hyper-real image or to create entertaining wipes between scenes. There's animated fantasies of the characters thoughts and cross dressing. The comedy is often broad and there are plenty of sight gags and physical comedy. Often the characters break out into song and dance. There's about as much plot as a variety show and that's what it's like. It moves from little sketches with the charcters to dance numbers to odd abstract or absurd bits that have little to add to the story. There's always something to look at, the girls are all pretty and some of the guys are nearly as pretty as the girls. The sheer volume of the jokes means there's something for everyone. It's not that edgy or rude, there isn't even any nudity. It's worth a look for the right person.
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