After the success of La Brassiere, you would expect copies to surface
very soon, and Beauty and the Breast is exactly that, but instead
on focusing on designing the perfect brassiere, the premise of this
film is creating large breasts.
The plot is rather lame, with most of the first
half of the film focusing on Mario's (Francis Ng) wooing attempts
on new colleague Yuki (Michelle Reis). When she realises that he
has been lying to her, she plays a trick on him and his best buddy
Harper (Daniel Wu) by making them drink hormonal fluids which would
increase their breast glands, resulting in big woman-sized mammaries.
Some of the breast scenes are quite funny, but
also very puerile, and these scenes don't last as long as the film
made them out to be. In the end, Mario and Harper are both fired
from their jobs, and they end up in the doldrums, hoping a miracle
would save them. Guess who that would be?
Compared to La Brassiere, this is not even
on the same playing field, and lacks the wit, energy, cuteness and
damn laughter-ability which La Brassiere has in spades. The growing
breasts thing (which the film is sold on) is not as prominent as
you'd think and only lasts a very short while. The rest of the film
is just another love story, and not exactly a very exciting one
either. This is supposed to be a comedy, but the laughter won't
be coming from you. Very disappointing to say the least.
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