Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 0601643067636 Format: Color Label: Tai Seng Video Manufacturer: Tai Seng Video Publisher: Tai Seng Video Release Date: 1998-06-19 Running Time: 94 Studio: Tai Seng Video
Customer Rating: Summary: Slapstick classic... Comment: A private investigating bureau, headed by the miserly and bumbling head (Michael Hui), is joined by the young kung-fu-loving private eye freshie (played former HK heartthrob singer Sam Hui) on a series of investigating (mis-)adventures. With turtlehead Ricky Hui, the trio pit their wits against police, adulterous couples, shoplifters and finally a cinema robbery organization. This third comedy in the series by the Hui brothers was a massive hit in Hong Kong, even upstaging their earlier success with "Games Gamblers Play", though it carries a filmsy-thin plot strung together by episodic gags. Classics include a duck-exercise routine and the spoof-showdown between Jaws and Bruce Lee. Michael later outgrew this sort of comedies by making more character and narrative-driven plots, but "The Private Eyes" still remains a marvellous consortment of good-natured, blue-collared humor. If you enjoy the kind of gags performed by Marx Brothers or by Peter Sellers in the Pink Panther series, you'd love this. Hui made another companion sequel to this film in 1990 named Front Page. Customer Rating: Summary: Silly slapstick but all in fun Comment: An up-and-coming, speedy and resourceful detective must prove himself to an older, well-established, well-respected detective in order to become his junior partner. Unfortunately the two don't always see eye to eye, and this forms the basis for much of the humour in this very daft, very dated, and very entertaining HK slapstick action comedy. Even the soundtrack is great, for those with a forgiving nature. Nothing about the movie is original, there are doses of sexism, and lethal injections of stupidity, but everything is treated in such a good-natured way that the result can only be a bit of harmless fun.
