Han Kong Sang (Nick Cheung) has everything: young, rich and handsome,
with loving parents (Kenny Bee and Cecilia Yip in splendid form) and
a large corporation to manage. What he lacks is love, and he experiences
his first true love with Kaka (Candy Lo), a new girl at the office,
who completely bedazzles him with her rich personality. After dating
for a while, they decide to marry, only for Sang's father to tell
him that Kaka is actually his step-sister, and thus they cannot marry.
Sang is devastated, but knows what to do. Since
he cannot tell Kaka why he must break up with her, she goes into
a bad state of depression. Sang then decides to go out with Sabrina
(Sharon Chan), a gold-digger, just to give out the impression that
he is a playboy, but the funny thing is that Sabrina is also his
step-sister.
It turns out that Sang's father was a philanderer
in his youth and may have dozens of bastard children of whom he
has never seen. The situations get even sillier when it is revealed
that Kaka's mother (Amanda Lee) did not actually sleep with Sang's
father, and thus Kaka could not be Sang's sister. Later it is revealed
that Sang isn't really his father's son, and that Sang's mother
also had affairs, one of which may have been with Kaka's real-life
father. Confused? It gets much better.
As comedies go, this one is quite absurd, but
I found that I actually liked it as the minutes rolled by. Each
of the situations are as nonsensical as they come, with most of
the plotting featuring Sang's disbelief as he discovers how hard
luck can really hit a man where it hurts.
Kenny Bee and Cecilia Yip are excellent as Sang's
wealthy celebrity parents, who always try to think up new ways to
keep themselves in the media's eye, including paying a famous author
to write a fictitious account of their life story, and then getting
a famous director to film it.
Surprisingly Nick Cheung and Candy Lo look great
in their respective roles, and seem to have that chemistry needed
to make it flow, even though they are still quite average in terms
of screen couples' affinity. However, they manage to do their part
and create a nice comedy sketch. The film has its moments, but still
doesn't feel as polished as, say, Needing You, but as light entertainment,
it serves.
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