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Love On Delivery Director: Lee Lik Chi Actor: Stephen Chow , Ng Man Tat, Christy Chung Our Price : $8.99 List Price : 14.99 You Save : $6.00 (40.03 %) Availability : 3-4 Days Quantity: Shipping Units: 1 (what's this?) Add To WishlistView Items In Wishlist Product Details : SKU# : V1928 Product Name : Love On Delivery Actor : Stephen Chow , Ng Man Tat, Christy Chung Director : Lee Lik Chi Language : Cantonese Subtitles : English Format : Distributor : Century Star No. of discs : 2 Video : Shipping Origin : Malaysia Running Time : Release Date : Love On Delivery - Other Edition Love On Delivery $11.99 (Hong Kong)     Note: Please ensure that your DVD player is capable of decoding DVD with the above specifications. Covers displayed may differ from the delivered product as a result of regional variations. SYNOPSIS / Editorial Review about - Love On Delivery LOVE ON DELIVERY is one of $$ID=Chow Sing-Chi$$’s best films. It is overwhelming in its barrage of sight gags, cultural send-ups and fracturing of Cantonese language and Hong Kong mores. The story is simple: cowardly delivery boy (Chow) is kissed by a modern beauty (Christy Chung) when she is proving a point to someone else, and suddenly his whole life must change. He is roped in by an affable con man (Ng Man-tat) who takes all his money for bogus martial arts training, but actually triumphs briefly and accidentally in disguise. His Beauty has been won—but to a martial arts hero (Ben Lam Kwok-bun) who claims he was the masked savior. A visit to make a challenge reveals that the hero is really a powerful bully, and a run-in with the hero’s manager (Chun Hoi) reveals that the con man really was a martial artist in the past; thanks to everyone else’s ego trips, the still hesitant delivery boy ends up in a televised grudge match with the bully who will beat him to a pulp. On that slender thread hangs the comic genius of Hong Kong’s best and most popular comedian. Delivery boy Ho is not the usual Chow character. He is neither brash nor obnoxious, has neither ego nor confidence. This character begins in a position a Chow character usually falls to by mid-story. By 1994, Chow not only needed a variant on his roles in his previous thirty-plus films, but also knew that his audience was with him from the opening credits, and he didn’t need to pique and then seduce them to follow along. The challenge lay in getting his fans to buy him as a naïve, dim, but generous and honest man—no small feat, when he specialized in playing savvy, self-centered guys on the make through either self-interest or as professional con men. In the past, something always happened to make the character discover his heart or his conscience. In this film, the character has, if anything, too much heart and conscience, and must painfully learn to value himself and view others more realistically. In a dramatic film, this would be a tug at our heartstrings, and perhaps a bit cathartic. In a Chow comedy, it’s an opportunity to let the zingers fly. LOVE ON DELIVERY is only too willing to hit everyone with a pie in the face. Martial arts pretensions and mania, slam. Social class awareness, slam! Hong Kong pop culture, slam! Western wannabe behavior, slam! Romance, slam! Altruism, double slam! The targets are many, and Chow’s arrows are all bulls-eyes. How does Chow do it? Films are a collaborative effort, some more so than others, and comedies that are built around a personality (such as America’s Robin Williams or Jim Carey) are friendlier to greater control by that personality. A Buster Keaton silent-era film is pure Keaton, even though he didn’t technically write or direct it; he surrounded himself with people who thought and worked like him, giving the productions a kind of soul merging one usually only hears about in religious cults. Chow is the same, carrying a group of production people who can map his techniques in their heads. It is not coincidental that Chow’s greatest success is with a Hong Kong audience. Hong Kong is a strange place, where East collides with West, and people do not so much cross cultures as they stand spread-eagled across the chasm of the two, neither foot firmly in either. That frisson has been the stuff of both great dramas and great comedies in Hong Kong film. Hong Kong’s glorification of the cult of personality is a fine example of how one retains his individual expression without risking a step out of the crowd. The script’s employment of early ‘90’s Hong Kong obsession with the cartoon cat Garfield (“Gar fei mao”), Ultraman (Ng’s cardboard crest and boiled egg eyes martial arts pose), and pop stars (in the person of the real king of pop stars, Jacky Cheung, who never takes himself seriously, and has partnered Chow in other comedy films) is a fine example of how to lampoon your own audience and make them scream for more. LOVE ON DELIVERY doesn’t just have jokes within jokes; it has jokes as asides to more elaborate jokes. The film is like the old adage on city buses, “if you don’t like this one, just wait a minute and another one will be right along.” When the delivery boy camps out for days to get Jacky Cheung concert tickets, the gag payoff might be Cheung’s appearance like a deus ex machinae, but along the way are ripostes about fan mania (the Jacky fangirls beat an old man who proclaims rival pop star Leon Lai Ming’s name—a jab at the real knockdown fan battles between teens who were devoted to Andy Lau Tak-wah and Leon Lai Ming, as well as the ugly incidents from the 1980’s wars between fans of Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing and Alan Tam Wing-lan), queue behavior (the security guards all have riot gear and slap everyone into line) and scalping cons. The language jokes are also nonstop, but much harder for a non-Cantonese viewer to pick up, especially bits like Ng strapping a boom box to Chow and having him sing mon ge ta, i.e., “forget about her” over and over to the tune of “Funkytown.”—it’s just funnier if you don’t have to translate and you know what Hong Kong English is like, so that the phrase sounds as much like a bad imitation of black English as it does an actual Cantonese phrase. Another example of insular humor is the money in the film; if you don’t know HK currency values (HKD$100 = US$13.00, approximately) or what a reasonable wage for a job is, you can’t appreciate Ng’s money spiel and what the dollars dropping into the “charity” box really mean to the delivery boy’s quality of life. Still, there are plenty of sight gags and crazy characters to go around, such as Director Lee Lik-chee’s performance as the hamsap (lecherous) restaurant manager who is Chow’s boss. As a note of interest, the Master of Ceremonies for the big fight is producer/director/ actor/music executive Phillip Chan, who plays superior officer to Chow Yun-fat’s “Tequila” character in HARD-BOILED. In addition to the above-listed credits, Chan is also often pegged to M.C.TV specials and charity shows in Hong Kong. Review Courtesy by Gere Ladue Customer Reviews about - Love On Delivery No reviews for this item. Submit yours below Add Review Customers who bought this also bought these titles: Older Master Cute    (Hong Kong) The Crazy Bumpkins (Shaw Brothers Movie)    (Hong Kong) The Longest Summer    (Hong Kong) Big Times For The Crazy Bumpkins (Shaw Brothers Movies)    (Hong Kong) Crazy Safari    (Malaysia)

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