SPOILER WARNING: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The film revolves around an orphaned boy, Shi-Jie (Jay Chou) who grew up in a kung fu university but get thrown out of the university after making trouble at a nightclub. Eventually, he meets Wang-Li (Eric Tsang) who discovers Shi-Jie’s talents and Wang-Li is keen to make Shi-Jie his cash cow.

On the excuse of helping him search for his long lost parents, Wang-Li invited him to play basketball at the First University.

After joining the basketball team, Shi-Jie is often distracted by Li-Li (Charlene Choi), sister of Ting-Wei (Bo-Lin Chen), the captain of First University basketball team. In order to get the attention of Li-Li, Shi-Jie competes with Xiao-Lan (Baron Chen) but the conflicts between each other when Ting-Wei helps Shi Jie to combine his Kung-Fu with the important basketball techniques.

Jay Chou in Kungfu Dunk

After winning games after games, finally First University meets its major competitor in a team led by Lee Tien, a former captain of First University basketball team, who has betrayed them in the previous season. Lee Tien also used to taunt Ting-Wei by telling the tale of what he has done to Ting-Wei’s girlfriend. Ting-Wei has resorted to drink alcohol to overcome this.
Earlier, Wang-Li has made great efforts to persuade four grand masters from the kung fu university in which Shi-Jie grows up to take up a challenge at the last moment. With Ting-Wei and Xiao-Lan both injured, will Shi-Jie manage to overcome this obstacle and win the championship? Well, let me spoil it for you — First University initially loses the championship due to a bribed referee but Shi-Jie uses his Kung Fu to freeze time and reverse it to win the championship.

Kung Fu Dunk is a way better movie than Jay Chou’s previous efforts in Initial D, though his Cantonese has not improved much. Perhaps, with the profits from the box office, Jay Chou should after all, have a make-over or something. Both, Bo-Lin Chen and Baron Chen overshadowed Jay in the movie as they are better-looking in every sense, making Jay looks very much like a cow dung. Perhaps, the movie should be name Kung Fu Dung?

My ratings: 7 out of 10. With a $10 million budget, Kung Fu Dunk doesn’t even have a decent babe in it makes you think where all the money goes to? However, despite that and the bad storyline, Kung Fu Dunk excels as more than just another film that is inspired by a manga.

Curse of the Golden Flower stars Chow Yun Fat as a gruesome Emperor of the Tang Dynasty while Gong Li plays the Empress; Jay Chou plays a faithful Prince Jai and Liu Ye plays crown Prince Wan.

The movie potrays Tang dynasty as a beautiful palace with displays of picturesque decoration and many beautiful maidens. All these maidens are beautiful and wears tube-like dressing displaying their colossal bosoms. One must wonder why Zhang Ziyi is not in this movie. Instead, the ever-so-voluptuous Li Man plays Prince Wan’s secret lover, Chan, who’s also the Imperial doctor’s daughter.

In this movie, the Empress (Gong Li) is assumably ill and the Emperor (Chow Yun Fat) has ordered his troop of Imperial medics to feed her with medicine every two hours for the past ten years. At one time, the Imperial doctor reveals it to his daughter that one of the ingredients for the medicine will eventually make the taker go insane and the emperor has ordered them to add that ingredient for ten days. Ironically, the Empress hired a secret investigator who happened to be the Imperial doctor’s wife and the Emperor’s former lover (also the mother of Prince Wan!).

Overall, there are a lot of twist and turn but it’s a predictable movie with not much to be awed at, except the beautiful bosoms, um… maidens. Period.

If you haven’t watched the movie, view the Curse of the Golden Flower trailer here