Royal Tramp

Well, as you can probably tell, Royal Tramp has the usual $$ID=Wong Jing$$ "kitchen sink" plot and can become more than a bit confusing at times. It's also extremely violent in parts -- O'Brian likes to literally rip his opponents apart -- and of course, there is the requisite Wong Jing toilet humor (there is a running joke where Tat confuses Stephen with his long-lost penis). Despite its' schizophrenic style, though, Royal Tramp is still a very entertaining movie, mostly due to Stephen Chow's performance. Royal Tramp isn't as funny as some of Chow's other films, but it still generates a good amount of laughs, especially if you have seen a few of the movies which this film parodies (one sequence is a really dead-on jab at the Once Upon a Time in China series, including a re-worked version of "The General's Orders"). Combined with some decent action sequences and a lot of eye candy from Chingmy Yau and $$ID=Cheung Man$$ (who -- in the wacky world of Hong Kong movies -- plays Chingmy's mother, even though she looks to be only a couple of years older than her), Royal Tramp has the makings for a innocuous way to kill ninety minutes.

Review Courtesy of Neil Koch