Crazy Couple starts off promisingly enough. It begins with our hero playing practical jokes
back and forth with this creepy guy.
This weirdo decides to raise the stakes by swapping out our hero’s prescription
with a laxative. Little does he know the
medicine was actually for his pet monkey.
The laxative is so strong that the monkey dies from it, which throws its
owner into a Kung Fu frenzy.
It’s here where I started to get excited. I honestly thought the film was going to go
into full-on Death Wish territory. I
mean, who wouldn’t love a movie in which a man tries to get revenge for his pet
monkey? Unfortunately, the two winds up
joining forces to stop a Kung Fu master who has killed their doctor
friend.
So much for that.
From then on, the film turns into one of those lame Kung Fu comedies
that feature so-so fight scenes and dumb humor.
The scenes that involve our hero trying to hook his buddy up with the
doctor’s ugly daughter are the worst. I
did get a chuckle out of the scene in which a constipated Kung Fu master looks jealously over to the next stall while his assistant has no problem shitting. (Complete with frequent “plop-splash”
sound effects.) If the film had one or
two more of these amusing comic set pieces, it might’ve gotten a higher grade,
but as it stands, Crazy Couple just wasn’t crazy enough for me to recommend it.
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