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Nasi Lemak 2.0 (2011)
A total butt kicking movie
From all the movies made by Malaysian Chinese I watched, Nasi Lemak 2.0 is perhaps, having the shortest mean-time-between-laughing. The only movie come second to this one, is The Superhero Movie. It's simply indisputable. Even the title itself refers to the recent riot, Bersih 2.0 that fights for fair and square general election.
Although the synopsis suggested he is on a journey to search for the best recipe of Nasi Lemak, the fact is this movie brings you on a quick tour on Malaysia's pathetic coward politicians' stories, specialties of each races and sometimes small story clips that make you laugh. Name Wee wrote a very, very good script for this.
The downside is this movie is unsuitable for family viewings, there are many crude sex jokes involved and some characters are named after Chinese profanities, like Lan Qiao and Gong See Fart. And the bloody offscreen penis chopping scene is definitely a not-so-humorous joke.
Thankfully, for those who read newspaper often and pay attention to recent happenings know what the movie is talking about. They presented the bad sides of the infamous politicians in a humorous and sarcastic way. And sometimes characterization is not important at all. There is no definite biography for all the characters. For instance, the Gong See Fart can suddenly be CSL, the next moment he became Li***m, or the Chef Huang would transform into a guy in MCA. It's a total fun ride of politic jokes.
Lastly, as Malaysian you will feel warm-hearted when watching this movie. Maybe you even feel that you don't know Malaysia as it is. The races mentioned are Chinese, Baba Nyonya, Indian and lastly Malays. I don't want to spoil the features of each races here.
There is not much to complain about this film, I like it. But you have the liberty to hate it, conservative guys.
Glee: The 3D Concert Movie (2011)
Not really Impressed
The first thing that pwned me is there is no 2D. And the consequence is there is no further promotion and the cinemas won't even open more time slots for it. That's the first con before I even start to watch the movie. And the 3D is unnecessary, throughout the film I won't sense little 3D during concert scenes and the slushing credits. The fans' stories are not shooted in 3D, I took off the 3D glass and I sensed no difference, that "3D" costed me more money but little eye candy.
Next, you will be frustrated that many songs are not in the concert but on the other hand, they added tons of unnecessary songs, which does not really attract the attention of Gleeks and even put me into boredom. Luckily you still have "DUN STOP BELIEVING" (in credits), "Born This Way", "Slave 4 U" but no "Baby 1+ time" etc.
Luckily they added some little snippets of social outcasts being interviewed. One is homo, dwarf and a little Asian Blaine (wearing Dalton uniform too!). They claimed they came out of shades because of watching Glee, which in turns change my way of watching Glee Series, too! Disregarding all the gross kissing scenes Glee is actually a carrier of positive values.
Well, for Gleeks, yes go and watch. But for outsiders who never watch Glee's all episodes. Don't go, the pit did not say you are the boss at this, you will be confused and left the cinema in misery.