Mr. and Mrs. Incredible

[Drunk Monk]

Imagine Mr. and Mrs. Smith, except they are medieval Chinese masked superheroes, trying to be retired from crime fighting and grappling with middle age (I can so relate). It's a comedy. Very colorful and silly, with a lot of special effects. The version I saw was in Cantonese which made it really hard for me to understand. Cantonese comedies rely on a lot of puns and word play that just goes sailing over me. So there were large chunks of dialog with goofy expressions that made no sense at all. I think it was better that way, because if I knew what was going on, I doubt I would have been that amused. There was this bald giant pinhead - seriously, an actor suffering from microcephaly and giantism - who made to completely incongruous appearances, sticking his weirdly-shaped head way too far into shot. I never figured out what that was about, but it was just as well. Stuff like that kept me watching - just barely. There was a lot of poaching from Kung Fu Hustle, including a toad fu villain that puffs up when he croaked. That was actually one of the high points of the film. In fact, it desperately needed more of that. The female lead, Sandra Ng Kwan Yue, is a more ordinary version of Michelle Yeoh. This is an odd film for sure, but is totally skippable.

Here's a taste
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