Movie Review: Taoism Drunkard

"The grandmother really knows how to calculate. Therefore, I have to be roasted."
I think it's safe to say: This is not a dilemma anybody has ever faced at any time. 
Except in this movie!

Wow!  Just wow!  I don't even know how to start this Chinese movie review, except to say this is quite possibly the weirdest, strangest, most utterly bizarre film I have ever seen.

The Gweilo's Movie Ratings for Taoism Drunkard
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Category	Rating
WTF Meter	5 of 5
MST3K-Ability	5 of 5
OVERALL QUALITY	3 of 5

What do these numbers mean?

Chinese Movie	Taoism Drunkard
Director	Yuen Chung Yan
Actors	Yuen Chung Yan, Yuen Yat Choh, Yuen Shun Yi
Year	1984
Format Viewed	VCD (Fortune Star JS/VCD/3104/HK) What is a VCD?

It would be easy to jest (hur, hur, hur!) that director Yuen Chung Yan, and everyone else in the cast and crew, must have been as drunk as the film's hero when Taoism Drunkard was created.  But I don't believe they were.

Movie Review: 9th September

At Gweilo's Guide, we celebrate what makes Chinese movies weird and fresh and unusual from the gweilo's perspective.  Random, nonsensical film-making strategies are a big part of the fun here.  That's the whole point of the WTF meter. 

The Gweilo's Movie Ratings for 9th September
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Category	Rating
WTF Meter	5 out of 5
MST3K-Ability	3 out of 5
OVERALL QUALITY	1.5 out of 5

What do these numbers mean?

Chinese Movie	9th September
Director	Lam Chin Wai
Actors	Michael Chow Man-Kin, Simon Loui Yu-Yeung, Anita Lee Yuen-Wa
Year	2000
Format Viewed	VCD (Universe VCD 2259)

However, as any B-movie fan will tell you, the weirdness can pile up to a point where it stops being amusingly weird, and it starts being just weird weird, in a bad way.  A movie can get random to the point where it’s difficult to make any sense of it at all.  9th September boldly pushes past this boundary within the first few minutes of the film without even breaking a sweat.  In fact, 9th September sets out to discover if there's an even farther boundary, where the accumulated weirdness hits a kind of critical mass, and turns good again.