However, when the film starts delivering reveal upon reveal, it pretty much jumps the shark and nukes the fridge, setting up a climax that could leave the audience in stitches due to the over-the-top melodramatic seriousness of it all.Įxtreme obstacles are created for the film's would-be couple, and before long people stop behaving in a sensible or logical manner. The filmmakers choose to approach its emotions slowly and seriously, which is fine in the early going when the situations are easily digestible if not original. The same twist has been used effectively in other romances, but Happily Ever After is hurt by its earnest tone. Happily Ever After possesses a sizable twist that's easy to figure out because it's pretty much revealed in the film's opening moments. Will To-Chi return to reconcile with Nam? Or will their rivalry begin anew? What will Chun-Man do? And why was Nam screaming her head off about a missing boyfriend in the film's opening? Their high school reunion is now fast approaching. Even more flashbacks show us that Nam and To-Chi were rivals who bickered incessantly before flirting with romance, but something happened that made it all go to hell. Nam still pines for Sze To-Chi (Ken Hung), a classmate who split for Canada some years earlier, leaving Nam wondering what could have been. The handsome and ultra-nice Chun-Man has long had a thing for Nam, but he's out of luck. Cut to days earlier and Nam is enjoying her part-time college life, splitting time between school, meals with her dad (Hui Siu-Hung, in one of his patented patriarch roles), and her part-time job with high school classmate Chun-Man (Carlos Chan). Kong and editor Azrael Chung, Happily Ever After starts decently with young Nam (Michelle Wai) making a scene in a 7-11 regarding her missing boyfriend, who she's desperately looking for. Well, the “90 minutes”, “innocuous”, and "melodramatic" parts do happen, but “fun”? Not as much. Yay! 90 minutes of innocuous, possibly melodramatic fun! A third party complicates matters and everyone goes home happy. The basic story: girl meets boy, boy and girl spar in a manufactured manner, boy and girl get together, boy and girl face a surprising problem that makes their union difficult, and boy and girl finally resolve their problem for better or worse. Happily Ever After stars EEG idol Ken Hung ( Love is Elsewhere) as a super-cute high school guy who plays will-they-or-won't-they with a super-cute high school girl (TVB idol drama actress Michelle Wai). Not to be left out, Hong Kong audiences are getting their 2009 shot at the genre courtesy of the presumptuously titled Happily Ever After, produced by Hong Kong entertainment juggernaut EEG. At least, that’s the formula that works so incredibly well in Japan, where photogenic and frequently interchangeable idol romances have their own dedicated section at video stores. Summer romance is awesome, especially when it involves impossibly cute idols on the big screen. Still, they do this genre better in Japan. There's some potential talent here, and the target audience should still be served.
LinĬompetent idol romance with a predictable twist and a third act that could incite death via unintentional laughter. Anjo Leung Hiu-Fung, Gladys Fung Ho-Sze, A.
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