Love on Delivery (1994)

AKA: King of Destruction

Literally: Destroyer King

Director: Lee Lik Chi

Producer: Mona Fong (Yat Wa)

Cast: Stephen Chow, Christy Chung, Ng Man Tat, Ben Lam, Paul Chun, Phillip Chan, Peter Lai, Leung Ka-Su, Lee Lik-Chi, Vincent Kok, Cheng Cho, Koo San-Kei, Gabriel Wong, Wong Yat-Fei, Lee Man-Biu, Leung Wing-Chung, Jacky Cheung, Leo Koo, Billy Chow.

Running Time: 99 min.

Plot: See Gwailo's review below.

GWAILO'S REVIEW: Hysterical 1994 project by comedian Steven Chow is a winner. Chow plays a bumbling (Chow at his best) delivery boy who falls in love with a tough kung-fu queen, Christy Chung. Chung is longing for a hero to fall in love with. Problem is Chow is a coward. To win her affection he must become a king of kung-fu. Film knocksabout clumsily, though it provides ample side-splitting sequences. Scenes where Chow dresses as Garfield the Cat and battles the token "bully" is among the funniest and most memorable. Chow, as he does in most all his films, borrows liberally from other films. There is a strong John G. Avildsenesque (just made that up!) quality to this film. As in Avildsen's Rocky or Karate Kid movies, Chow plays HK's every man. A persona he shares equally with Jackie Chan. The loser at the starting line but the winner at the finish. There is also a strong anti-Japanese sentiment to the production where, again, the bad guy is an evil Japanese karate expert whose martial arts skill must be defeated by the much stronger Chinese Kung-Fu. Chow of course defeats him, but instead of yelling for Talia Shire he yells for Christy. One of Chow's funniest.

GWAILO'S RATING: 8.5/10