Movie Review: The Fortune Buddies/勁抽福祿壽

Ooooh, a leftover New Year film from TVB! With TVB actors!

I knew this film would suck.

How did I know?

It’s TVB.

It has Wong Cho Lam, the world’s most infuriating Metrosexual.

It has Fiona ‘five head’ S(h)it.

The Fortune Buddies/勁抽福祿壽 looks like it was made on weekends and without money, which is made very clear in the trailer.

But what do I know? Turns out I was wrong.

***The Fortune Buddies/勁抽福祿壽* exceeded my expectations.**

It sucked more than I thought humanly possible.

I actually enjoy some heavily local cheap comedies, and I especially like them around Chinese New Year.

But it was August.

In the midst of people sleepwalking through their roles, Fiona finds it necessary to grossly overact, which at least has unintentional comic value.

The plot, in which brave and plucky locals must fight against the abusive and oppressive foreign (read:white) wrestlers is such an obvious gobble of the China Market C*ck that I found myself quite simply offended.

It wasn’t funny because there was no style or wit. Just “We must not be defeated by evil foreigners!”

Hey, f@#k you too.

Which, really, is the message  The Fortune Buddies/勁抽福祿壽 has for its audience.

If you are, like me, dumb enough to watch it, then it is alarmingly apropos.

It’s a shame because there are a (very) few scattered laughs in the film, but they are subsumed(!) by an avalanche of sh*t.

Which one can only hope TVB someday is.