Senario Lagi

To look back and remember a movie seen 3 years ago is usually futile. Unless the event is memorable (this is almost always unconnected to the movie itself), the reaction would mostly be, 'Oh yeah, I saw that one, hmm, pretty good I think,' Well, this movie always brings tears to my eyes, and head shaking out of sheer incredulousness every time someone mentions it. The plot, characters, camerawork, all mundane factors combined was overtaken by the pared down hilarity of the script. The plot, far from a contender of the swiss watch precision category, begins with a purchase of a new car by a family man, and his holiday trip with the car brings all of manners of urban wildlife to the front, from a weaselly car thief to a hilariously dazed immigrant.

Peppering the whole movie with famous (and semi famous) local celebrities was a stroke of genius, inducing pleasant bouts of 'Hey, isn't that.." between gusts of belly laughter. Each scene, a thread away from unraveling into utter nonsense is brought into the picture not only to tickle the funny bone, but to whack it numb. One of the scenes, involving 2 characters and a misplaced bottle, brought the house down to the extent that you could not hear the dialouge. You just had to be there.

The director is never too full of himself, even injecting a little fourth wall pulling by all the characters to wonder, 'what the hell is going on?'. Genius aside, the movie was a funhouse with all the baggage thrown overboard and any sentiments flattened with a slick steamroller. Low brow it may be, but you just can't beat something that actually makes you fall off your chair. Literally.