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When Sharon is away, I tend to stay in during the weekends or go for photo shoot. There was a trip to Singapore Zoo planned but that was called off and therefore, I got some gaming time with the 360. But what is a Monday Movie Review without movies right?

I managed to catch up with my DVD collection, and my review will come from those. It was movies which I didn’t manage to catch on the big screen – Year One and a Chinese movie, On His Majesty Secret Service.

Year One had powerful names in it. You were talking about Jack Black, Michael Cera, Hank Azaria, Oliver Platt, David Cross, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Paul Rudd – although he was uncredited (the who’s who in the current comedy scene) and Olivia Wilde (the current holder of Sexiest Woman?).

With all the big names, the sacrifice came in the plot. Or rather the story. It felt like it was one big stand-up comedy with one scene leading to the next. And after a while, the silly stuff and the needless violence makes you feel like you are watching the adult version of Looney Tunes.

It has its funny moments, and it definitely made fun of a few sensitive topics but its one movie where you tend to lose attention after a while only to be jolted back into it sometimes. I am a fan of the people in the cast particularly Michael Cera but even with a star-studded cast, this movie was weak.

From an American comedy to a Chinese comedy, I was in the mood for comedies this week. I’ve been quite disappointed with the newer comedies from Hong Kong and I feel that they’ve never hit the good old times of the early to mid-90s.

On His Majesty Service seems to be on the disappointment route at the start and it was a pain trying to watch it. But I stayed on and realised that this movie starts hitting the right notes in the middle of the movie. There are genuinely funny moments and it had me bursting out in laugther towards the end.

I’ve said it before that Louis Koo is quite the versatile actor and once again, he proves that he is indeed a good actor in here as well. After watching so many dramas with him of late, its nice to see him taking up roles in comedies again. If his performance this year is anything to go by, we will be seeing a lot more of him in the future.

And luckily, they didn’t have an actress from China speaking Mandarin in a Cantonese film this time. At least it was all Cantonese and that made it that much better.