Genre: Romance, Comedy
Starring: Stephy Tang Lai-Yun, Janice Man, JJ Jia, Ronald Cheng Chung-Kei, Kathy Yuen, Maggie Li, Wong Cho-Lam, Chan Fai-Hung, Tsui Tin-Yau, Andy On Chi-Kit, Gigi Leung Wing-Kei, Wong Yau-Nam
Release year: 2008
Language: Chinese - Cantonese
Subtitle: English
SYNOPSIS:
Miu Ho (Stephy Tang) works as an Innerwear Researcher, but a run-in with the company's lothario, marketing manager Lucas (Ronald Cheng), complicates her work and love life. Miu is a good girl, though, and instead of taking advantage of her, Lucas offers to help her to land the affections of the heir to the company, the wealthy and very strange Antonio (Wong Cho Lam). Meanwhile, Miu's best pal Donut (Janice Man) works in a lingerie shop, and has issues with her beau (Chan Fai Hung), a married man who's also a customer at her store. Club girl CC (J.J. Jia) is also a customer at Donut's workplace, and is looking for some new, expensive lingerie in order to impress her new boyfriend, shy Harvard student Eugene (Andy On). Finally, Miu's downstairs neighbor, flight attendant Celine (Kathy Yuen), has an odd problem: someone keeps stealing her underwear! Cop James Shum (Tsui Tin Yau) offers to investigate, but he seems more interested in ogling Celine's uniform than catching the perp. Still involved in her own romantic issues, Miu decides to take her innerwear research to a new level - by using her own underwear as bait to catch the thief.
RATING: 8/10
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REVIEW:
" ...That's just fine though, because La Lingerie pretty much represents what Hong Kong Cinema is right now. The days of kung-fu spectaculars and crazy Category III thrillers are gone. The Hong Kong audience won't support those films, but they do manage to turn out in decent numbers for commercial urban comedies with overloaded big-name casts (e.g., Simply Actors, plus the omnipresent films from director Patrick Kong). This is the type of movie that keeps local Hong Kong Cinema alive, so props are deserved for its sheer existence. As a bonus, the film is actually quite entertaining, managing to be consistently funny even though its story isn't really successful. The whole "underwear as metaphor" theme is rather thin, but as fodder for gags and oddball characters, it works. La Lingerie is far from a coherent movie, and is also incredibly overlong. At two hours, it's not the drag that Sex in the City was, but the film never bores, and even when sentimentality surfaces, it's not overbearing or terribly distracting. For a two-hour Hong Kong-specific urban comedy, La Lingerie is enough to entertain.
Strangely, this happens despite most of the female cast failing to impress. Popular model Janice Man is unimpressive and even annoying as Donut, while JJ is burdened by her impure Cantonese - though since she's the only one of the lead actresses to actually appear onscreen in lingerie, she gets some extra credit. Kathy Yuen is fresh-faced, and makes up for her average acting with her clean, pretty looks. Oddly, it's the guys who are more distinctive. The dependable Chan Fai-Hung is very funny in his supporting role, and Ronald Cheng is simply great as Miu's true love interest Lucas. Hong Kong possesses a few actors who are instantly likable when playing jerks, and Ronald Cheng is currently one of the best. The normally stiff Tsui Tin-Yau is amusingly animated as the fastidious and horny James Shum, and his Shine bandmate Wong Yau-Nam adds to his range with a turn as a self-confessed pervert. La Lingerie is loaded with actors and actresses who would probably be bigger stars if Hong Kong Cinema wasn't in such dire straits. They don't uniformly impress, but as it is, they're fun to watch.
However, the film really is Stephy Tang's, and the actress turns in some of the best work of her generally unspectacular career. Tang has never been more likable or funny than as the sexy, daffy good girl of La Lingerie. When Tang first started out, it was easy to diss her for trading on her soft plastic good looks, and even now she's still a few levels below contemporaries like Charlene Choi. Still, Stephy Tang has come a long way, improving bit-by-bit as an actress while also gaining some traction at the Hong Kong box office. Calling her a skilled actor would be presumptuous, but Stephy Tang is worth noting for her solid popular appeal as well as her increasing likability - things that happen to be short supply right now for Hong Kong movies. As a film, La Lingerie is pretty much the same; the film isn't exceptional nor an accomplishment, but it earns credit by being funny more often than not. Given everything else that's happening for Hong Kong Cinema (that is, not very much), it'll do just fine. "
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