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Super
Energetic Man |
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Year: |
1998 |
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Director: |
East
Island Long Eyebrow |
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Cast: |
Edmond Leung Hon-Man,
Gigi Lai Chi, Tsui
Kam-Kong, Law Kar-Ying,
Lai Yiu-Cheung,
Teresa Mak Ka-Kei
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The
Skinny: |
This
film is the HK version of Popeye, which should be cast
into the depths of hell, never to be heard from again. We
can only hope. |
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Review
by Kozo: |
Allen
Smithee directs a Hong Kong film! Fab director East Island
Long Eyebrow is actually a pseudonym for someone who wisely
took their name off this travesty. This HK version of the
Popeye cartoon is cheesy, cheap, and full of nothing
but bad gags and poor comedy.
Edmond Leung is On Do Do, who should
be Popeye, but the US lawyers were all over the filmmakers
before they could release this thing. He eats Fairy Weed,
giving him enlarged forearms and great strength. Lychee (Gigi
Lai) is the Olive Oyl stand-in and Captain Lorento (Tsui Kam-Kong)
is Bluto.
“It’s supposed to be that way” is
the defense you could muster for this odious piece of trash.
Sadly, it isn’t enough to save it. This is just a terrible
movie, and there really is nothing else you can say about
it. Further making this film unwatchable are the lame subplots
including Lau Yiu-Cheung macking on Teresa Mak Ka-Kei, and
Law Kar-Ying tailing Lychee. This is plain old bad HK movie
that was probably meant to appeal to kids—and I'm not
a kid. Still, Babe was a kids movie and it appealed
to adults, too. And hey, Super Energetic Man is rated
IIA, which means no kids. Who exactly was supposed to watch
this garbage? (Kozo 1998) |
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