I Love Hong Kong 2012
Chung Shu Kai, Chin Kwok Wai

While last year’s I Love Hong Kong was an affectionate celebration of the ties that bind, this year’s follow-up is a more generic comedy with a mixed bag of jokes.
Of the cast from last year, Stanley Fung, Bosco Wong and Eric Tsang are among the few who return. Tsang plays the eager-to-please husband of a shrewish lawyer (Teresa Mo).
Her tomboyish younger sister (Denise Ho, looking as though she had just walked off the set of 2011’s Life Without Principle) is dating a fey salesman (Bosco Wong). The youngest brother (Luk Wing) is chasing a gorgeous girl.
Stanley Fung plays the curmudgeonly patriarch who manages to drive away his loved ones but, never fear, the theme of family togetherness will eventually prevail against the backdrop of the world possibly ending this year.
Look out for the sight gags of Tsang in a leotard, Ho and Wong made up to look like ghosts for their wedding pictures and a human domino chain toppling in a supermarket.
Best of all is a geriatric spoof of the hit Taiwanese youthful romance You Are The Apple Of My Eye (2011) as veterans Fung and Susan Siu gamely ham it up for yuks.
(ST)