Reviewed by: evirei Date: 02/12/2012 Summary: Just My Luck As many times as one could watch it before, it is still ever entertaining. And I have to agree and say this is really one of Tony Leung's best comedy movie as he really seems to bring out the best of the character with his carefree and relaxed acting. But one thing I must really give credit to was the chemistry between Tony Leung and Miriam Yeung, they really do make such a cute and lovely couple in the movie. As for Ronald Cheng, he plays a really funny villian. The story of the movie is also a fresh type which is beyond the typical and done to death type of Chinese New Year movie. I can't tell in exactly it was that keeps drawing me to watch this movie over and over again especially during CNY. But it was really very catchy and fun, and the humour was done just right. Reviewer Score: 8

Reviewed by: j.crawford Date: 02/07/2006 Summary: hilarious romantic comedy For the 2003 Lunar Holiday, comedian Vincent Kok Tak-Chiu writes, produces, and directs a hilarious romantic comedy starring Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Miriam Yeung Chin-Wah, and Ronald Cheng Chung-Kei. A light-hearted romance with emphasis on comedy, My Lucky Star springs from a well written, colorful screenplay [co-written by Ye Nianchen] that is just non-stop jokes and sight gags. Though he has done quite a few comedies over the years, My Lucky Star features a great comedic performance by Tony Leung contrasting his more serious work in the Infernal Affairs films and Wong Kar-Wai's In The Mood for Love. Miriam Yeung is delightful as the downtrodden Hung, who has nothing but bad luck. Look for the director [Kok] in an outrageously funny supporting role. The ubiquitous Chapman To pops up once again with a funny performance as a Hong Kong hip-hop wannabe. happyfortune.org Reviewer Score: 8

Reviewed by: icacutee Date: 04/17/2003 Funny movie and entertaining as a Chinese New Year movie. The movie was better than Love For All Seasons, and should have a higher Box Office. Miriam Yeung plays the role similar to roles from her movies beofre. She acts happy-go-lucky and ends with her desired man. Tony Leung is sweet in this movie, however there is no chemistry between him and Miriam. He also seems slightly old for her, but not as bad as Cat and Mouse (Cecilia Cheung and Andy Lau). This movie was funny, especially with the use of Feng Shui. Worth seeing if looking for something fun. Definitely better than Love For All Seasons and Cat and Mouse (the rival Chinese New Year movies).

Reviewed by: danton Date: 04/06/2003 Chinese customs (or superstitions, depending on your perspective) such as astrology, feng shui, numerology and so forth have always added a unique and rather colourful local flavour to HK cinema, from various horror genre flicks or Lam Ching Ying's taoist rituals in the gyonsi movies to feng shui burial ground motives in numerous, wide-ranging films such as "Bury me High" or "Royal Tramp 2". Belief in the power of Feng Shui in particular, apparently runs so high in the Territory that this produced enough material for mockery via the faux documentary "How to get rich with Fung Shui" a few years ago. MLS adds a gentle, light-hearted mockery of a feng-shui focused obsession with luck and destiny as the prime driver and narrative glue for a plot that in the end is not much more than a formula-driven, assembly-line manufactured romance comedy. Luckily, the film does not star Sammi Cheng but her much more likable clone, Miriam Yeung, along with Tony Leung Chiu-Wai as her partner. Miriam plays a decidly unlucky woman who seeks the help of famous Feng Shui expert Tony Leung and in the process the two predictably develop some chemistry while battling the curses of a numerologist who's responsible for Miriam's clouded fate. Everyone tries to be funny (involving anything from "funny wigs" to crossdressing and silly sightgags like Tony covered in shrimps and beans), the plot moves along briskly and after an entertaining 90 minutes things come to the expected conclusion, and this being a New Year's comedy, the crew lines up at the end for the usual Gung Hei Fat Choi... While not a comedic gem by any means, the film kept me entertained with its frothy attitude, light-hearted script and mostly rather brainless assortment of gags and pratfalls. The leads are likable, the Feng Shui angle is fresh, and so I'd give it thumbs up.

Reviewed by: magic-8 Date: 04/04/2003 Summary: Benign and Entertaining Comedy Romantic comedies have once again been churned out for Chinese New Year. "My Lucky Star," featuring Tony Leung and Miriam Yeung, is Vincent Kok's latest Chinese New Year's offering. The story focuses on Leung and Ronald Cheng as feng shui masters. Leung uses geomancy, while Cheng is a numerologist. They muddle up the Yip family fortunes as they provide services to the emperor during a brief prologue. Transition to modern day Hong Kong as Yeung, playing the Yip descendent, has a long running history of bad luck. Leung and Cheng also represent their family lines in the modern setting. Yeung seeks out Leung in the attempt to alter her bad fortune. Cheng is the opposing force in the battle for Yeung's future. Although there are plot holes aplenty, Kok does a good job in providing an amusing tale, using feng shui as the plot device to bring Yueng and Leung together. Yeung and Leung do a fine job in making the plot easy to follow through their characters' dilemmas, as Leung discovers that his fate and Yeung's are intertwined through the generations. Kok keeps the film moving along at a brisk tempo from start to finish. "My Lucky Star" has fast-talking, smart-mouthed characters, a touch of goof-ball comedy, great scenic location shots of Hong Kong, and some touching moments between Leung and Yeung. The characters are fleshed out enough to keep things interesting, but there are some major points that just don't make any sense, such as why Chapman To and Teresa Caprio would want to meddle in Yeung's affairs. The feng shui elements used in My Lucky Star are quite general and topical to the film but do not get in the way of viewing pleasure. Tony Leung is competent and as charming as ever, while Yeung is quite good. Miriam really shines and is allowed to show her dramatic side, even though Kok's script has a bit too much taken from the Wong Jing school of comedy, where nothing is sacred and everything is thrown into the mix. "My Luck Star" is a benign, entertaining diversion.

Reviewed by: fancynancy Date: 02/23/2003 Summary: its miriam i havent seen the movy, but id just like to point out to the last reviewer that its actually MIRIAM YUENG and not SAMMI CHENG in "my lucy stars". talk about not paying attention. jeez.

Reviewed by: sspinali Date: 02/05/2003 Summary: Moderately lucky comedy Tony Leung and Sammi Cheng may have been friends in their last incarnation, but it's this one they have to worry about. Leung is a feng shui master, driving around in a shiny new sports coupe and dispensing sage advice to upscale clients with HK bucks to burn. Cheng suffers from terminal bad luck. She's lucky if she can make it through the day without tumbling down the stairs a few tmes, and getting (much less keeping) a job is consuming challenge. Still, she manages to be happy in spite of it all. Sammi is no chump with it comes to feng shui, but even Leung finds himself getting flu symptoms whenever he's with her. When Leung gets kinda soft on her, he launches into a full-blown attack on her yin-yang woes...and discovers that maybe numerological woes might be brewing behind her bad fortune. This means war (or sorts).. The enjoyment in this movie mostly rotates around the clever use of feng shui as almost a martial arts device, and of course, the affable co-stars. Sammi Cheng may not change much from role to role, but she's usually amusing in a deadpan kind of way, and Leung is always in command. But while the film can be amusing, and even clever, it never quite lives up to its potential. After a hilarious introductory section set in an indeterminate 19th century, the modern-day narrative glides along uninventively, though it seldom loses your attention. Stay around to the end; there's a mildly amusing bloopers reel (that would have been funnier if subbed).

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