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Sunday, August 4, 2013

Cinema Movie: Kara King (冠軍歌王)


Release Date: 01 Aug 2013
Language:Mandarin
Subtitle: Bahasa Melayu, English
Genre:Comedy
Running Time: 96 minutes
Director:Namewee
Cast:Namewee, Frankie Gao, Ng Man Tat

Synopsis:

‘Kara King’ was a champion singer in Hong Kong until his wife mysteriously disappeared. Heart-broken and blaming himself for the lost, he turned his back on his singing career and moved to a small town in Malaysia to focus on looking after of his two children. Without knowing the truth, his son (T-bone) grew up hating ‘Kara King’ for breaking up their family, as a young rebel, he soon learn to channel his hatred and anger towards his father through rock music.  On the other hand, his sister has been trying hard for years to mend their relationship without much success until one day, a foreign stranger came to their village with the news of their mother, and finally all hell broke loose …
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My Comments: I'm at GSC Paradigm Mall today to catch this movie and my expectations on this movie is definitely better than Hantu Gangster. Let's see how it goes. This movie is a star studded movie where there's a lot of famous actor and actress being involved in this movie. Particularly the noticeable Ng Man Tat which last time partnered with Stephen Chow on several movie occasions and now Namewee had invited him to act in this movie. In terms of seeking actor and actress, Namewee is very good indeed. Directed by himself, it's also starring the model Ribbon Ooi, the singer Tiger Huang Xiao Hu and veteran singer Frankie Gao and tonnes of Malaysian & Singapore artistes as well. Frankly without Ng Man Tat and Frankie Gao, this movie is almost nothing and luckily they stole the limelight in this movie. Tiger Huang only came out as a special appearance only and only acted for like a few minutes.

It talks about the master of singing where singer Frankie Gao who lost in the previous Karaoke competition to Ng Man Tat and now seeking for revenge. Meanwhile, Ng Man Tat was seeking for his long missing wife and there's connection between Frankie Gao and Ng Man Tat too. They have to battle in the singing competition to find out the answer and who's the best. Something happen to Ng Man Tat before the singing competition and can he survive? Check it out! Namewee appearance in this movie doesn't give much impact on this movie until the last part where he did really well and we almost in tears. Still I am quite dissapointed with some of the scenes where it's too childish and not logic indeed.  I would say in future Namewee movie should be making some sense on its jokes as well. Too many rubbish I must say and luckily there's some touching part and some favourable actors which saves the day for this movie. 

I would still recommend you to watch this movie although I must admit that it's not the best. It's still lack of laughter and most of the jokes are too silly and not funny though. As a Malaysian movie, I would still support Namewee and hope he can still improve in future. Enjoy! MY RATING: 3/5 ; KIMMY RATING: 3/5


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