Love on the Rocks VCD

Gigi Leung (Actor) | Louis Koo (Actor) | Charlene Choi | Dante Lam (Director)

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August 3, 2007

This customer review refers to Love on the Rocks

Don't Forget the Romance Customer Review Rated Bad 7 - 7 out of 10

For lessons in the methods of how a guy can woo a girl correctly by the use of more feminine friendly romantic formulas, this film is quite charming and mildly amusing. Ming Wong takes his girlfriend Annie to a restaurant for a romantic Valentine's Day meal, only to break the cardinal rule by refusing to buy flowers, asking his male friend to join them and splashing out on a cheap hot pot buffet which is not exactly hot to Annie's taste. After watching Ming and his friend tuck into (lets say additional sweet meats) in an anti etiquette style, Annie decides Ming's romantic idea of Valentine's Day isn't what she had in mind and tells him they need to cool their relationship for a while. Ming doesn't seem to have the romantic panache (and telling him, Annie certainly makes a meal out of that!) Frustrated, hurt and abashed, Ming then locates a web site and a girl named Crystal who helps him to find his inner romantic. She knows all the tomes of romantic fiction from Asia to Europe and is more versed in the heart than Aphrodite and Cupid put together - and, can also tell when lovers at a dinner table will argue on cue. Ming meets and picks up with Crystal's hypnotic and adept tips on how to learn the art of the "12 Ways of the Romantic Flowers", how to get romantic in a night time candle lit mega store (with Crystal as tutor) and end up getting noticed in his pajamas when the store re-opens at 10.00 am the next morning filling up with early shoppers and without Crystal (this is where Ming probably needed a Gin on the Rocks here) and eventually tracks back his previous relationships to see what he had learned, or missed, from them.

Its all a mildly funny and quirky. Certainly nothing to get serious about, even (especially) when the film all goes melodramatic at the finish. Twins other half Gillian appears briefly as Ming's first girlfriend and looks and acts beautifully cute and sweet as a girl with a leg handicap, although a poignant finish to that ensues. Donnie Yen also later appears in an embarrassing part where he is expecting a masseur to de-stress him only at the time Annie appears to try him with some new shoes - thinking Annie as the masseuse. The pacing changes a bit in the middle, though, by Ming's past romantic exploits told to Crystal where in a flash back with two girlfriends, played by Canto singers Kathy Chow and Rain Li (lots of popsters popping up in this!), and can seem to out weigh too much for the audience, Ming's relationship with Annie. Acting is good and singer Gigi Leung as Annie is a very pleasant and charming shoe shop assistant love interest, yearning for the timeless fashioned romance Ming struggles to deliver. Lusie Koo plays a good romantic comedy part as the mild and charming boyish Ming along with his romantic(less) attempts to woo Annie (or woo Annie) and makes him somewhat the bumbling charmer. Charlene (hurray!), although only partly featured, is good as the wry full romantic wizard Crystal and with her 'I'm looking serious here, but oi, I'll nudge you in the side as I'm only kidding' looks, wins me over. Charlene is more deadpan funny here as a love intermediary trying to help Ming hone is ability to become more romantic (and falling in love with him herself ...bless) and her male role reversal in Annie's shoe shop showed an instant comic visual that gives Charlene good humerus appeal. It was a shame, in a way, that the script didn't excel here, as it could have been a classic scene. Charlene looking like a fella with a false mustache.

Overall, its another piece of romantic tomfoolery. Still, I believe in the adage that in everything there is something worthy to glean from. Certainly this film's romantic focus on what is important in a relationship is held together by the attentions we can all have for the 'romantic other', the potential soul mate to our lives, and trying to remember to work thoughtfully and considerably proactive with a relationship as best can be. To forget to do that creates an inertia that can lead to no romantic factor. In the end, too, Ming learns some crucial similar facts in a quite roundabout fashion. Done in a melodramatic finish, its funny, silly, has lots of food, but yes, its all romantic in the end. Worth a see.