Movie Review: Golden Chickensss/金雞SSS

It’s Chinese New Year, so it’s time for Chinese New Year movies.

Golden Chickensss/金雞SSS is the third Golden Chicken movie.

It tells the story of ‘Big Boobs’ Kam, a former prostitute who now works as a madam. Always resilient, always plucky, no matter what life throws at her, Ah Kam adapts and keeps going.

Written and directed by Matt Chow, the movie is definitely a New Year film.

It is thoroughly silly and at the same time very sweet.

Sandra Ng plays her role commendably, being funny and serious, and convincing the whole time.

Nick Cheung Kar Fai plays Brother Gordon, a man who has spent a long time in prison.

When he gets out, he discovers a Hong Kong completely different from the one he left so long ago.

Crude sexual humor is juxtaposed with nostalgic observations about the changing nature of Hong Kong and the resilience of the people who live here.

The montage of Brother Gordon seeing how different Tsim Sha Tsui East is now, and the ways it is different, is both plainly documentary and perceptively incisive.

Eason Chan plays Gordon’s 2nd in command, a gangster who’s had to make some adjustments in terms of what he does to make illegitimate money.

Ivana Wong plays an industrious and avaricious sex worker from China who will do anything for money.

If she wasn’t from Hong Kong, I could make a joke about a woman named Ivana Wang playing a hooker…

Michelle Wai does a good job throwing her dignity under the bus and wallowing in the more prurient aspects of her role.

She’s oddly impressive with how comfortable she seems doing things that I thought should earn the film a Category III rating.

Like all good Chinese New Year movies, there’s a ton of cameos.

Andy Lau has a brief appearance that’s still very funny.

Donnie Yen reprises he role as Ip Man in the best Grandmaster parody of the new year.

Fiona Sit plays a rival madam, in a role she was surprisingly good at.

Louis Koo plays himself. Sort of. He plays a Louis Koo imitator from Bumf@#k, China.

That’s really what the subtitle says. I’m not being pejorative.

It’s always fun to watch an actor make fun of himself, and Louis Koo is hilarious.

Lo Hoi Pang continues his streak, seemingly having a role in every local movie that gets released.

Even though it’s a movie about prostitutes, and gets pretty explicit in terms of dialogue and humor, Golden Chickensss isn’t Category III.

So no nudity. No breasts, and certainly no genitalia.

But you do get to see a c*nt.

This movie also features the single most uncomfortable Wonder Woman reference I’ve ever seen.

One other nice thing about this movie is that I got to play my favorite movie game:

Where is Jane Wong?

I really enjoyed Golden Chickensss/金雞SSS, and when it’s released to DVD, I’m going to buy it.

That’s what you should do too. Or go see it in the cinema.