Call for Love (2007)

Call for Love (2007)

Release Date: 8 February 2007 (China)
Quality: DVDRip.XviD-YSDG
Language: Mandarin
Runtime: 94 min
Director: Jianya Zhang
Company: Chengtian Entertainment, China Film Group, Pegasus Taihe Entertainment
Movie Info: IMDb
Cast: Zheng Xu, Shan Cong, Bingbing Fan, Cunzhuang Ge, Beibi Gong, Shengyi Huang
Genre: Comedy | Romance
Watch: Trailer
Size: 698MB

Plot: Wishful male fantasy is the name of the game in Call For Love. This Mainland Chinese Lunar New Year Comedy has a decent, though ultralight premise, and some of the satire manages to be clever. However, the story's development is sketchy, the production noticeably sloppy, and the final lesson trite and rather unearned. Then again, this is a Lunar Year Comedy, so lazy filmmaking is excusable as long as everything is funny - and to be fair, the film does possess a few laughs. Please note that I said "a few".

Xu Zheng (Crazy Stone) stars as Xu Lang, a white-collar worker in Beijing who realizes one evening that he's become completely disenchanted with his wife (Jiang Hongbo), and suggests that they divorce. When asked for a reason, he cites the purple sweater that she wears too often, her love of television soap operas, and the noodles that she cooks four times a week. She kicks him out posthaste, throwing his mobile phone at him for good measure. Now single and lacking a working mobile, Xu enters a repair shop where the proprietor (Liu Yiwei of Karmic Mahjong) proffers a brand new mobile with a decidedly male-friendly special feature: it allows him to meet ten different women at the touch of a button, with each one being his possible dream woman. (asiatorrents)