Audio Format: DD 5.1, DTS
Video Format: Widescreen 1.85:1 (Anamorphic)
Languages: Mandarin, Cantonese
Subtitles: English, Chinese (T/S)
Region Code: ALL
Year Made: 2007
Running Time: 95
Interesting and entertaining, despite possessing little in the way of a logical or coherent storyline. Dancing Lion is funny and smart, and likely a complete mystery to those not versed in local Hong Kong culture. We say this with a big fat asterisk, but Dancing Lion is worth a look.
Local satire reigns with Dancing Lion, a funny but chaotic comedy that puts the "Hong Kong" back into Hong Kong film. Francis Ng stars and co-directs (along with Marco Mak) this bizarre charmer about a wacked out family and their wacked out antics, which exist thanks to the pursuit of a singular goal: money. The film's central family (consisting of Ng, Anthony Wong, Teresa Mo, and Gia Lin) is out to make some quick dough, and somehow it's lion dancing that becomes their calling.
Fortysomething loser Fai (Ng) and pal Gau (portly Lam Chi-Chung) become the toast of the town thanks to their lion dancing skills, though the actual development of such fame is barely there. Here's how it happens: the pals are slackers who are threatened with layoff, and must win a talent contest to keep their jobs.
