Chinese Feast

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Summary: Cute, but Disjointed plot....
Review: Chinese Feast is an improbable but amusing comedy about the high pressure world of professional cooking. When mob enforcer Cheung, decides to escape the business and become a chef he proves to be a miserable failure. Finding a job at a local Chinese restaurant, he does all kinds of miserable jobs, until he befriends the owner and his daughter. When the owner is challenged to a food duel, Cheung must find the perfect chef to cook the meal. Unfortunately, the man they need has become an alcoholic grocery clerk...Can the Cheung rehabilitate the master Chef in time?

I found Chinese Feast to be a fun and amusing comedy. But, the plot was somewhat disjointed. I also felt the beginning was a bit slow, and the subtitles were very tiny and hard to read. Finally some of the dishes, made my stomach turn (bear paws), and (monkey brains), err... Can anyone say SARS?

Overall, a cute film, which could benefit from a tad more editing.

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Summary: One of the all time best movies about food
Review: The Chinese Feast is one of the all time best movies about food and a great movie in its own right. One of the main plots involves rehabilitating an alchohlic master chef to save a restaurant. It reminded me of the classic western plot of bringing back the old gunfighter to save the ranch. Western audiences will find this movie quite accessible. The comic timing is extraordinary and the cast is one of the best looking groups of people I have seen. Subtitles are in bad Hong Kong movie English, but isn't that part of the fun?

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Summary: Kiwi opinion
Review: This is an excellent comedy - a cross between 'Eat Drink Man Woman' and 'Saviour of the Soul'. A young woman convinces a famous but now drunken and bad tempered cook to help her family by competing in a cooking competition. The somewhat slow beginning transforms into an over-the-top wild competition which keeps you laughing and guessing right to the very end.