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72 Tenants of Prosperity  (2010)

It may be just another Lunar New Year comedy, but 72 Tenants of Prosperity turns out to be much more fun than expected. Winning local details, some great stars, some not-so-great stars and solid jokes make this suitable holiday fluff for Hong Kong entertainment aficionados. Playing spot-the-star could be half the fun.   
   
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Review: They haven’t made a real stunner yet, but TVB is now 2 for 2 in their bid for big-screen credibility. After earning box office with the summer hit Turning Point, Hong Kong’s reigning television monopoly delivers 72 Tenants of Prosperity, a quasi-sequel to the Shaw Brothers classic House of 72 Tenants. The film opens with newly-filmed sequences echoing situations seen in the 1973 original before flashing to the present to follow the next generation of local Hong Kongers as they fight and fume on Mongkok’s Sai Yeung Choi Street. Director Eric Tsang (and co-directors Chung Shu-Kai and Patrick Kong) manage genuine laughs and surprises in between maudlin sentiments and occasional awkward moments. Their ratio of good-to-bad is probably less than 3-to-1, but that’s still much better than TVB accomplishes on television. Success, like most things in life, is measured in relative terms. 
Like most Lunar New Year comedies, 72 Tenants of Prosperity concerns family dynamics and over-extended romantic situations. Kung (Eric Tsang) and Kin (Jacky Cheung) are former best buddies who let their friendship go to rot over Hong (Anita Yuen), who married Kung and bore him two children played by TVB regulars Bosco Wong and Linda Chung. Kin is currently their neighbor and has two children of his own, one played by TVB regular (See a pattern here?) Wong Cho-Lam. Not-a-TVB-regular Stephy Tang plays Kin's daughter, who's enamored with Japanese AV culture and just returned from Japan where she worked as an assistant director on AV films. What follows are some surprising gags acknowledging Tang’s minor resemblance to pornstar Akiho Yoshizawa (who's sometimes referred to as "AV Stephy"), and a set-up for a possible romance between Stephy Tang and Bosco Wong's characters. Since their families are estranged, that's your standard Romeo and Juliet storyline right there. 

Audio:Cantonese Subs:Chinese/English hardsubs

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