Ching fung dik sau (1985) User Reviews

Now this is good

[TrapZilla · 10/10 · 3 January 2002]

From the beginning to the end of this movie, you'll be having great great fun! Donnie Yen plays Eddie, a great marial artist and a breakdancer. Eddie wakes up with breakdancing and even puts on his clothes with breakdancing style! The adventures Eddy has in this movie are endless, escpecially with his good friend Mini(Yuen Woo Ping) who he meets while going home from school. Mini just wants to eat, and when he finally has some food, bad luck strikes him again and again. There are plenty of breakdance scenes in here with Donnie showing his amazing skills. He shows us what he's like in the disco and at the gym!Just watch the great breakdance battle with Donnie against his foe. Are you a Donnie Yen fan and didn't see this movie? Shame on you!

Exemplary Hong Kong comedy

[Leofwine_draca · 9/10 · 17 March 2020]

MISMATCHED COUPLES is a surprisingly excellent early Donnie Yen flick, made as his second movie by no less than John Woo (just before he became forever associated with the 'heroic bloodshed' genre). It's a film in which the hilarious comedy is every bit as good as the action, and the decision to have Yen playing a guy who loves to dance is a genius decision because the dancing scenes are among the funniest thing's I've ever seen! Yen's foil is none other than Yuen Woo-ping, who turns out to have a natural gift for comedy as well, and I haven't had this much fun with a film for ages. The latter stages of the film feature the excellent Dick Wei as a rival gym member, leading to an unforgettable duel which has to be seen to be believed. Great stuff, and one of the greatest Hong Kong comedies I've watched.

We loved it and we know you will too.

[tarbosh22000 · 10/10 · 27 June 2014]

Eddie (Yen) is a happy-go-lucky guy who loves break dancing and Martial Arts. He lives with his stern sister Ah Ying (Wong) and the cute Stella (Mei-Mei). He has a geeky friend named Mini (Woo-Ping), whose clumsiness and awkwardness is always getting him into some kind of wacky trouble. Seeing as Eddie loves the beautiful Anna (Anna Kamiyama, in her only film role), Mini loves Ah Ying, and Stella loves Eddie, many mishaps ensue in their respective quests to win their desired mate. Meanwhile, Eddie faces challenges in his two hobbies: Kenny (Perez) wants to beat him on the dance floor (and the tennis court), while the batty and maniacal Fight Champion (Wei) wants to fight Eddie in the ring. How will Eddie and Mini navigate all this? Will everyone end up with who they want to end up with? Find out today! It's kind of hard to put into words just how awesome Mismatched Couples is. It's loaded to the bursting point with upbeat, high-energy, colorful, happy, funny scenes that work overtime to try and please the audience. On top of that are highly impressive physical feats relating to the dance scenes as well as the Martial Arts scenes. Director (and co-star, as the bespectacled Mini) Yuen Woo-Ping, gets the most out of every scene, which, one after another, are just delightful escapades that are just wildly enjoyable. It's easy to see why he's well-known now. His skills are evident even in this early outing. The same goes for Donnie Yen, who is at his absolute best here.

We're always championing Martial Arts movies as well as 80's dance movies, and, amazingly, we found a movie that combines the two! In other words, this very well could be the perfect Comeuppance Reviews movie. The music alone is very entertaining (as are the sound effects). Add that to everything else, and you have a super-winner. In America, in the 80's, we had comedies like Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), as well as a steady stream of John Hughes movies, among many others. Mismatched Couples should be ingrained in the minds of everyone as a solid, mesmerizingly 80's comedy, and the only reason it's not is simply because it comes from Hong Kong. It absolutely deserves to be in the firmament with all the others, as it preserves a very sweet moment in time, with no apologies.

There's so much more we could say about this movie, but we want to keep things to a "Mini"-mum (heh heh) because we want you to discover the charm of Mismatched Couples for yourself. We loved it and we know you will too. It gets our highest and most enthusiastic recommendation...just see it!