MY WIFE IS 18 (M) 2002
SYNOPSIS: May contain spoilers... Synopsis: The grandfathers of Yoyo (Charlene Choi) and Cheung (Ekin Cheng) are best friends long time ago, and Yoyo's mother promised to marry her to Cheung. So the two obediently gets married in London, where Cheung is doing his master degree in female psychology, but secretly arranges to divorce a year later. Some time later, the under-employed Cheung returns to Hong Kong to stay with Yoyo and finds a teaching job at Yoyo's high school. While no one knows that the two are married, the couple experiences the ups and downs in their pseudo-marriage... Romantic comedy directed by James Yuen Starring Ekin Cheng & Charlene Choi In Cantonese, with English subtitles Running time 104 mins   OFFICIAL WEBSITE: http://www.u333.com/films/mywifeis18/ [Chinese text]
HEROIC-CINEMA REVIEW: The premise is dodgy - older guy has arranged marriage with teenager - but I thought it might have some saving graces. I mean, the older guy is Ekin Cheng, and he was a teen idol himself as recently as Legend of Speed, and the teenager was Charlene Choi, who really excelled in her debut Funeral March. Sometimes movies have no saving graces. The premise never really rises above the half-joke that it is; as teen bride Yoyo Ma (geddit?), Charlene decides to go all out for Ms. Perky 2002 Award, from the Run In A Circle and Jump Up And Down school of acting. Ekin gets dragged along by all the hysteria. I'll laugh at just about any canto comedy, but only managed a few half-smiles at this one. The smiles stopped all together when there is an event that should perhaps bring on some maturity, but Yoyo is still entirely behaving like a perky eighteen year old going on thirteen years old on the morning after. Creepy. I'm done talking about it. Maybe I'm just clear outta the demographic. The evening I saw it the students down the front of the theatre laffed their asses off. Maybe you will. But I doubt it. I think Ekin nailed it with his expression in the picture below. "Argh!"
Rating: 3 periods of detention out of 10. Reviewed by Mark Morrison   OTHER REVIEWS: Paul Fox at Canton Kid

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