30 years after this movie was released, I finally had a chance to sit down to watch "Tricky Brains" (aka "Jing goo juen ga"). And let me just be the first to say that I had definitely been missing out on something.
This was without a doubt one of the funniest of Stephen Chow movies that I have seen in a long, long time. And given my fascination with the Hong Kong cinema, it was odd, somehow, that this movie had eluded me until now.
The storyline told in "Tricky Brains" was a very enjoyable and funny one, and the cast in the movie definitely helped to spruce up the movie quite a lot. I mean, aside from Stephen Chow, then the movie also boasts talents like Andy Lau, Rosamund Kwan, Chingmy Yau and Man-Tat Ng. So if you are familiar with Hong Kong cinema, then you are in for a treat of a heap of familiar faces putting on very funny performances.
I will say that the laughs were many and frequent throughout the course of "Tricky Brains". And the comedy used throughout the movie is the type of comedy that will have you bursting out laughing loudly. So this was definitely an archetypical Stephen Chow movie in every sense of that meaning.
For a movie that is 30 years old, I will say that "Tricky Brains" definitely still keeps up and is very watchable even after three decades. If you haven't already seen "Tricky Brains", and if you get the chance to do so, do it! This is a movie that I can highly recommend that you sit down to watch.
My rating of the 1991 Hong Kong comedy settles on a well-deserved eight out of ten stars.
