Clothes can’t cover up comedic film’s lack of laughter
Money reigns in real life and movies
IF clothes maketh a man, then director Vincent Kok’s Love Is … Pyjamas is like a suit full of holes.
Kok stuffs his Cantonese romantic comedy with colourful characters, but at the end of the day, viewers will not remember much of it, except that problems in relationships will continue if you don’t talk with one another.
A character also says that pursuing wealth isn’t worth it if there’s no love. I’d say that the movie makes love and wealth a power couple.
The romance between the couples is also humdrum and will appear blase to viewers. Which mum wouldn’t be thrilled when her daughter’s boyfriend strikes it rich with an invention?
Also, haven’t viewers seen a lover breaking off a relationship just because she saw the boyfriend in the arms of another woman, but never bothered to find out the reason behind it?
The moments of ingenuity in the film are few and far between: a widow pines for her late husband by looking at an iPad that contains videos of him talking to her in different situations. There’s also an iPad app that projects someone in 3D.
Underneath the film’s cover, there’s really not much to see.
Fashion designer Spring (Teresa Mo) and daughter Karena (Karena Ng, 18) live together and work in the same men’s underwear firm owned by the former’s brother Hugo (Raymond Wong).
Spring wakes her daughter up every day by singing to her, and the film follows their travails in life as they navigate love and business storms together.
Hugo is in the process of wooing back top ex-girlfriend designer Miao (Hai Qing), who challenges him to develop a new fashion line based on the theme Men Are Like Clothes, before she comes back into his arms.
Hugo asks Spring to come up with a design, and he also gets lanky top model Jojo (Lynn Hung) to produce a design. The competition between the two groups is sometimes funny, like when Jojo’s gang spies on Spring’s gang working on the design.
Karena Ng (left) and Teresa Mo call up reinforcements.
Karena meets stand-in actor Tei (Ronald Cheng), who agrees to help them in the contest. He ropes in his cousin, fashion photographer Lucky Owen (Raymond Lam), because he has tonnes of contacts in the industry.
Owen and Jojo were once a pair, but a misunderstanding drove them apart. So the rivalry between the two teams is more than just a friendly contest.
In the end, it’s no surprise that love conquers all, but it’s also good to know that making more money will make everyone happy.
