Mei ren yu (2016)

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   Siskoid

   Stephen Chow (Royal Tramp, Kung Fu Hustle, Shaolin Soccer) made a big splash in China a couple years ago with The Mermaid (couldn't help myself), a crazy romantic comedy about a mermaid trying to kill a polluting businessman and falling in love with him instead. It starts out rough. The prologue has nothing to do with the story, and the business dealings set up after that make for a strange and even off-putting dip in a very strange pool (again, sorry). But stick to it, because once the mermaid shows up, there are plenty of laughs, and when you're not laughing, you're admiring how sincerely weird it all is. Despite the slapstick and cartoonishness of the characters (don't expect psychological portraiture here), the movie can be fairly violent at times. It may be Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, but the damage looks real and painful. This is, after all, an ecological fable, and rather blunt about its message. Insert third aquatic pun here; I've learned how to resist my darker impulses. 6 years ago
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   epicureanlotus

   Although all the CGI looked atrocious, and the writing was thoroughly average, The Mermaid was nevertheless a consistently entertaining film. If you don't expect multidimensional characters or anything more than a superficial ecological message, it's certainly a fun way to pass an hour or two. And at the very least, two or three of the scenes had me laughing uncontrollably. 6 years 11 months ago
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   filmclub

   So weird 6 years 11 months ago

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