Chinese Odyssey 2002

Chinese Odyssey 2002, produced by Wong Kar-Wai, is writer-director Jeff Lau's energetic parody of Chinese kung fu epics, with a bit of Shakespeare thrown in. Chang Chen (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) plays the Emperor, who, desperate for the free-spirited life of a wanderer, tries to escape from ...more

Jeff Lau's exuberant parody, Chinese Odyssey 2002, is so energetic and consistently entertaining that it hardly matters how little sense it all makes. Mixing elements from dozens of martial arts epics (including Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and sly references to producer Wong Kar-Wai's oeuvre, Lau and his able cast come up with a buoyantly scattershot farce that, thanks largely to the charisma of Tony Leung, Faye Wong, and Vicki Zhao, still manages to maintain interest in the fates of its ...more