Synopsis

The movies begins as Tom Kan (Ekin Cheng Yee-Kin) one of Hong Kong's top hairstylists is being interviewed by a late night female DJ Kitty( Kui Wing). Tom Kan is renown for his conquests of women and he determines to make Kitty the next on his list.

The next vingnette introduces us to Fred (Michael Wong Man-Tak), the son of a prominent village leader. Fred has returned to Hong Kong after studying in England, where he met his current girlfriend Ruby (Ruby Wong Cheuk-Ling) who is working as a reporter.The men of the village are very chauvanistic and do not consider that women have anything meaningful to say. Fred unfortunately, wants his girlfriend to abide by these rules too.

Finally we meet Bo ( Cheung Tak-Ming) who is the proprietor of a pet shop. He uses a sniveling, hard luck story approach to aquire the sympathies of women do that he can sell the pets. He has a steady girlfriend but when she tells him she is pregnant, his idea of being responsible is to give her the train fare to go and get rid of it.

Kitty does indeed take Tom up on his offer to style her hair, how ever he uses the appointment to date her. Tom and his buddy Brad have an ongoing copmpetition to see who can be the first to date 100 women. Pinky one of Brad's clients has a crush on Tom, but he does all he can to avoid her.

Needless to say all three are about to get punished for their bad behavior. One evening, as chance would have it, they spy a beautiful girl (Shu Qi) in a gas station, following her, they find themselves on a bus ride straight to Hell.

Fortunately Hell is full and there is no room for them, so they are sent back to Earth with just a small punishment, which they quickly discover means that they are missing an important part of their anatomy.

Tom also finds that he has been betrayed by his friend, who has sold pictures of his relationship with Kitty to a prominent magazine. Kitty of course is less than thrilled and wants nothing to do with him. Tom unfortunately now realizes that he does indeed love her.

At first in total shock, and then working to deal with the situation, the messenger from Hell (Louis Koo) tells them that is simple to reverse the situation and to be made whole. There is just one problem, they must find a woman they love and get her to love them too. Sounds easy, but each finds that to get a woman to love them is harder than they thought.

At length the three come to terms with the situation and they realize how badly they have treated their respective girlfriends. With only one day left before their fate becomes permanent each resolves to tell their girlfriend that they do indeed respect them.

In an attempt to find Kitty and prove his love for her. Tom agrees to take over her radio program. Discovering Tom's secret his jealous rival at the radio station is determined to expose him in order to improve his own standing at the station. He persuades the boss to set up an outside broadcast at a nearby mall.

Unfortunately his plan backfires and the three get the chance to make ammends. After this particularly embarrassing incident Bo and Fred are able to make up with their girls. Tom sees Kitty leaving the mall and rushes after her.

The three finally find that their girlfriends do indeed love the new inproved men, especially now that they have a new appreciation of women. Body parts are restored and everyone, lives happily everafter.

Review

It is amazing that Ekin Cheng and Michael Wong agreed to do this film. The script really didn't suit Michael Wong and the comedy was somewhat strained. Cheung Tak-Ming seemed more at home with the role.

Ekin Cheng fared better,he was extremely believable as Tom Kan. his anguish at the loss of Kitty was however a situation with which he was more comfortable. It was, however, still a stretch from his normal type of role. He deserves credit for continuing to move into new realms in regard to character and movie genre.

In addition to the three main characters, the stars that undertook cameos in this movies was like a Who's Who of Hong Kong cinema, with appearances from, Louis Koo, Shu Qi, Kristy Yeung, Stephen Fung and Francis Ng to name a few.

The plot was extremely predictable, and the happy ending was a relief to both the actors, their girlfriends and the audience.

The intital horror at their predicament was hilarious, and that together with looking out to see who would show up on screen next, kept the movie interesting.

The movie is produced by Universe Laser and is available on VCD and DVD. It has both a Cantonese and a Mandarin soundtrack. There are removable English and Chinese subtitles.

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