#3 All's Well Ends Well 2011

All's Well Ends Well 2011 (2011)

Director: Janet Chun, Chan Hing-Ka

Writer: Edmond Wong, Chan Hing-Ka

Cast: Ensemble, too many.

Chinese Title: 最强喜事

The third installment in this wildly popular Chinese New Year film franchise, has lost it's momentum. The first one, was a very pleasant surprise, making me and everyone else in the theater laugh our asses off in 30 second intervals. The second one was less funnier but enjoyable. I guess this is relatively equal the the second one.

It does deliver the expected laughs and had some original ones, but no one expects anything great from a CNY film. If it makes everyone in the theater laugh, have a good time with their families, and feel like its the New Year, then wa-bam, it's a good Chinese New Year film. This film succeeds at this.

The storyline is of course, cheesier than ever. Guy pretends to be gay for his make-up job, falls for a girl, ends up helping someone who's in love with the girl he's in love with because he doesn't know he's straight etc. Lots of generic elements but still enjoyable. The one particular scene done very well is when "Dream Dream", a woman whose boyfriend is very rich and gives her lots of money and materialistic items but not enough love, after thinking his boyfriend has had enough of her and left her, pretends to smile like a fool in front of a worker but as she walks away, starts tearing up. I don't know why but i think the actress did i great job at this. Angelababy was funny as the bitch of the show, bringing a gun to a wedding. And Louis does a good job at being gay, Donnie was awkward not doing any action sequences that he normally does and Cecilia is gorgeous.

That about sums it up.

3/5