I had difficulty rating this film, as my left and right brain have been squabbling for the past few days telling me what rating to give. The logical choice will be to give this a full mark, or almost full mark. The cast were BRILLIANT. Besides charming Louis Koo, and handsome Daniel Wu with the female lead Gao Yuanyuan from the first film in 2011, now there's Vic Chou (My first secondary school crush when he appeared in my life as Hua Ze Lei from Meteor Garden :P) and Miriam Yeung (my role model for acting after watching her Love Undercover in 2002). You know you can't go wrong when the cast are so good-looking and great with their acting!
Besides, this is one of the rare films where the CGI was pretty natural, especially the octopus, so much that me and my friend wonder if it's a CGI octopus or not! Moreover, the film played to its strength and made clever use of the first film for the flashbacks. No real worries for those who did not watch the first film, but of course, having watched that will always be advantageous to know the characters beforehand!
I like how the characters were introduced, showing how there is every reason for an identity mix-up, and well, just like the classic romance film "Turn Left Turn Right" (左走向右走), coincidentally by the same directors, this kind of situation is very possible in the real life! That's basically my left brain talking.
My right brain, on the other brain hand, was obsessively upset for many days after watching it. It actually took me some time to prepare myself (emotionally) to write this review. I love the first film. When Chen Zixin chose "Martian" Fang Qihong over "Earthling Cheung Shen Ren, I was overjoy. A man who two-times and sleeps around is definitely not someone a girl should marry. So when Part 2 is out, I kinda expected what's going to happen.
Yes, as usual, "true love"-or so they say, conquer everything (and Yes, I'm feeling sour, because my favourite Martian guy was dumped!) This made completely and utterly no-sense here, why any women could believe that Shen Ren would stop his philandering behaviour, especially when Chen Zixin witnessed everything across the building herself how Shen Ren continued his usual post-it notes and magic tricks with different women right after their breakup or even the riotous mass-"surprise" birthday celebrations all his girlfriends gave him. True love?
While some might find the first film simple, just like their theme song "Love is Simple" (爱很简 单), the sequel's trailer got me totally confused yet excited. Together with two more classic songs, the film introduced Miriam Yeung who was one of my favourite Hong Kong actress for her numerous comedy-romance films, and Vic Chou! It's such an odd combination that I will never have imagined them together. Yet, their chemistry in the film was uniquely sweet. The handyman who's always there when the girl needs him, he's like the romantic-version of "Da Ren Ge" （大仁哥）. The amazing quadrangular relationship made it super confusing to explain verbally, but ...
Read on: http://goo.gl/J6lhRv
Besides, this is one of the rare films where the CGI was pretty natural, especially the octopus, so much that me and my friend wonder if it's a CGI octopus or not! Moreover, the film played to its strength and made clever use of the first film for the flashbacks. No real worries for those who did not watch the first film, but of course, having watched that will always be advantageous to know the characters beforehand!
I like how the characters were introduced, showing how there is every reason for an identity mix-up, and well, just like the classic romance film "Turn Left Turn Right" (左走向右走), coincidentally by the same directors, this kind of situation is very possible in the real life! That's basically my left brain talking.
My right brain, on the other brain hand, was obsessively upset for many days after watching it. It actually took me some time to prepare myself (emotionally) to write this review. I love the first film. When Chen Zixin chose "Martian" Fang Qihong over "Earthling Cheung Shen Ren, I was overjoy. A man who two-times and sleeps around is definitely not someone a girl should marry. So when Part 2 is out, I kinda expected what's going to happen.
Yes, as usual, "true love"-or so they say, conquer everything (and Yes, I'm feeling sour, because my favourite Martian guy was dumped!) This made completely and utterly no-sense here, why any women could believe that Shen Ren would stop his philandering behaviour, especially when Chen Zixin witnessed everything across the building herself how Shen Ren continued his usual post-it notes and magic tricks with different women right after their breakup or even the riotous mass-"surprise" birthday celebrations all his girlfriends gave him. True love?
While some might find the first film simple, just like their theme song "Love is Simple" (爱很简 单), the sequel's trailer got me totally confused yet excited. Together with two more classic songs, the film introduced Miriam Yeung who was one of my favourite Hong Kong actress for her numerous comedy-romance films, and Vic Chou! It's such an odd combination that I will never have imagined them together. Yet, their chemistry in the film was uniquely sweet. The handyman who's always there when the girl needs him, he's like the romantic-version of "Da Ren Ge" （大仁哥）. The amazing quadrangular relationship made it super confusing to explain verbally, but ...
Read on: http://goo.gl/J6lhRv