Ip Man 2

I went to Cathay and asked to watch 'Eye-Pee Man', instead of 'Yip-Mun'. The ticketing boy didn't even flinch. He simply took my order and gave me the ticket. I rated his service as "Excellent". =))

Here's the trailer of Ip Man 2.


Now that you have seen the trailer, you have seen the better bits of the film.

Only the action is good. The story line is overly simplistic and simply lame. The makers of this film must have had chest-thumping peasants in mind when creating it. Any single episode of Here Comes Ajumma can beat its storyline hands-down.

Once again... Another product to cater to the Chinese mass market with the following ingredients:

1. Chinese pride theme
2. Hong Kong stars with peripheral actors from China
3. Funds from Hong Kong/China
4. Production location/labour etc from China
5. Post production/effects from Thailand
6. Music from Japan

And if you spend enough time in the cinema before the film starts, you'd realise that they are capitalising on this Ip Man wave... They are making the prequel of Ip Man. I would not be surprised if they soon announced that they would be made Ip Man 3 = Ip Man + Bruce Lee.

I wonder if the recent wave of Chinese Mother Tongue pride/solidarity in Singapore (re: the MT Weighting Redux Debate) has anything to do with the airing of this film over the same weekend?