Zhu ba da lian meng

I saw this VCD lying on my desk one day and decided to watch. my sister is a fan of Chinese movies and what interested me most is that it starred the gorgeous Stephen Fung.

It starts off with Turtle who goes to work in a firm with his cousin. there he falls for a beautiful girl who is known for her potty mouth. She along with her three 'sisters' are known as the Pork Chops - the not so perfect looking females. Sick of the torture of those above them, the pork chops decide to go under some pretty intense treatment to become beautiful.

Zhu Ba Da Lian Meng got a lot of laughs out of me but i think what bothered me most about this film was the morale of the story. Most films like this that have unfortunate ugly-duckling girls who turn into beautiful dazzlers would still carry the theme of 'it's inner beauty that really counts'. But after the amazing transformations of the four already beautiful women, i lost a bit of respect for the characters because it seemed that they could get over their flaws and be happy with the way they were (it's not like they were extremely ugly anyway)

It's a good laugh but doesn't send out the right message to young impressionable girls that to get ahead you got to be beautiful.