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青春火花 (1994)
Victory


Reviewed by: jfierro
Date: 12/21/1999

Standard plot elements, but very entertaining. Derek Yee is very funny as the clumsy science teacher who gets talked into coaching the volleyball team when no one else will take on a losing team. And don't forget the cool theme song by Linda Wong: V-I-C-T-O-R-Y --- Yau Sing Lei Jin Jung Ji Tai!


Reviewed by: hktopten
Date: 12/21/1999

It's a story about a women College volleyball team, the previous 9teams have won the HK i championship, so there is added pressure to win a 10th consecutive championship. After being demolished and handed their first loss of the season by a GIGANTIC team named the Devil Girls, the coach gets fired and most of the team quit. The remaining members decided to reform the team and continue to compete, but they need a teacher from the school to be the coach. Enters Derek Yee Tung Sing as the substitute teacher and interim coach who knows nothing about volleyball; add in your average girl has crush on the teacher and underdog come back story, plus a catchy theme song by Linda Wong Hing Ping, and you get an somewhat entertaining movie. Then again, I watch almost anything, what the hell do I know, right?


Reviewed by: spinali
Date: 12/08/1999
Summary: NULL

After winning nine consecutive championships, a girls' high school volleyball team gets utterly destroyed by a team of "spider women," (a team of tall gals); soon after that they lose their hard-assed, highly-paid coach. The chancellor lays it out like this: if the girls can convince substitute science teacher Derek Yee to be the new coach, they'll have a team again, and of course he does, and they do. During a school break, they take over a hospital gymnasium, with his knowledge of physics they learn "the beating parners stance," "the changing stance," and sing their victory song ("Yan-Sing-Lei-Jin-Jung-Ji-Tai!"). As junky as this sounds, it's a cute movie with some cute girls, and the volleyball-cam shots are just incredible!

(2.5/4)



[Reviewed by Steve Spinali]

Reviewer Score: 6