Movie Review: Just Another Pandora’s Box

This Movies was remind me last time Stephens Chow starring with Chu Yan about "the journey to the west, pandora box" version around 90's i'll was thinking the movies was continue. But is not " this movies which inculding a lot of 90' comedians together in this movies. You must be enjoy laugh in this movie.

“Just Another Pandora’ Box” is a follow-up of Jeff’s classic 90s hit comedies like “Black Rose” and “A Chinese Odyssey.” Like his earlier films, Jeff’s latest combines slapstick humour revolving around movie spoofs (John Woo’s “Red Cliff,” “Titanic,” “Kung Fu Hustle,” “Kung Fu Panda” – just to name a few) with romance to create plenty of ridiculously funny share of laugh-out-loud moment, featuring a whole a horde of stars from mainland China and Hong Kong.

To appreciate some of the jokes here requires you to put utter seriousness behind and just enjoy the process. There are plenty of gags to enjoy, only if you decided to go with the flow. To say any more about the scenes would just spoil your fun and the how surprisingly inspired and downright hilarious Jeff’s reinterpretation is. But, for the sake of illustration, watch out for the OSIM massage chair gag, which is brilliantly illustrated by Lam Suet.

Silly as it may seem, the movie is both generously fun and genuinely funny. However, it’s not a case of consistency, though. Like any other spoofs, “Just Another Pandora’s Box” has its fair share of loopholes and misses in between such as the out-of-nowhere appearance of Po, the Kung Fu Panda. The movie also suffers from a veil-thin plot, which Jeff Lau’s distracted pacing makes up for the steady climax until the messy ending. Call that an anti-climax.

Yet for its shortcomings, this mismatch spoof is still an entertaining delight – part of which is attributed to its never-ending all-star cameo appearance. Faces like Yuen Chiu, Yuen Wah, Lam Tse Chung, Wong Cho Lam, Ada Choi, Anthena Chu, Kenny Bee, Sandra Ng, Gillian Chung, Eric Tsang, Yuen Biao, Alex Fong and Xu Jiao – just to name a few can be seen here and there, just like Eric Tsang’s Chinese New Year’s “72 Tenants of Prosperity.” Seeing so many familiar faces sharing the same on-screen time brings back memories of how Hong Kong comedies used to be, and how it used to be a steady staple in the past.