Royal Tramp II

I must admit that I had more of an expectation to the 1992 Hong Kong comedy "Royal Tramp 2" (aka "Luk ting kei II: San lung gau"), because part one was definitely an enjoyable movie. And with this being a sequel and having Stephen Chow in the lead, what could go wrong?

Well, I suppose having a rather uninteresting script could go wrong. While I managed to sit through the entire movie here, I must admit that my interest in the movie's storyline and plot was much less stoked than it was for the first movie. "Royal Tramp 2" just didn't have the same appeal, and the comedy aspects that writer and director Jing Wong had in this sequel just didn't pan out quite as well as in the predecessor.

Sure, it was nice to see the cast from the first movie return to reprise their roles in part two, just a real shame that they didn't have much of an interesting or impressive script and storyline to work with. So even with an abundance of familiar names and faces, they could only do so much to salvage the movie and make it watchable. The movie has talents such as Stephen Chow, Brigitte Lin, Chingmy Yau, Sandra Kwan Yue Ng and Paul Chun on the cast list, so if you are familiar with Hong Kong cinema, then you will definitely see some familiar faces here.

This was by no means among the best of Stephen Chow movies, and I doubt that I will ever be returning to watch "Royal Tramp 2" a second time.

My rating of "Royal Tramp 2" lands on a less than mediocre four out of ten stars. I wanted to like and enjoy the movie, but the total lack of an interesting script and storyline just botched it for me.