The Mermaid (Mei Ren Yu)

You all know by now that this movie is the biggest hit at the boxoffie in China in the entire history.Yes I think it deserves every penny of it.It's funny, it's truely different romantic, the CG is great, the enviornment is totally new, the acting is over the top but good if you have seen the director's other film KING FUN HUSTLE you will know what I mean.The budget of this movie was $60,720,000 and it earned $553,810,228 worldwide which is a new record as a none Hollywood film.The story is kind of cliche all the way.There is this company building the ocean world but creats a lot of backlasch that is pollutions.The thing is mermaids are dying and they want to kill the CEO who is a young handsome guy.So they decides to bring this girl to him and kill him.They make her look like human and approach her to him.But she falls in love with him instead.He at the beginning hated her because she looke like a humble country girl.But one clothed pealed after, she was a beautiful innocent childish girl that any man will fall in love.The man becomes a child like her and falls madly in love with her too.Now that he has a business partner who has billions of dollars who is also a beautiful woman who's got an eye on him.When she founds out that the man is having an eye on the mermaid, she decides to destroy the whole mermaids.The CEO has to protect them all and also acheive the love of his life.And again how can they fall in love?With a mermaid?How about the child and marrage?They all work out at the end.The movie was so romantic and is so so diffrent in many ways.It was a new breaze to the so so rom-come after all.If you want something funny something true romantic film this is your man.

A romantic comedy only Stephen chow can bring. Kung fu hustle and journey to the west were some of the best action comedies ever. And he brings his witty charm to the classic mermaid out of water tale. And it's better than the Disney remake of the little mermaid they tried.

This was amazing I Love this more then the Little mermaid Live action Lol

Highly recommended to fans of bonkers Asian fantasy-adventure films. And no, I don’t mean high octane action or crazy stunts, I mean conceptually bonkers.Kung Fu Hustle (2004) was pretty silly at times, but knew when to reign in the silly for dire urgency. This film is more deliberately stupid, even slapstick, and feels suitable for children…at first, anyway. We even get a nonsensical lesson in the fairy tale evolution of the mer people—grounded in some Waterworld theory that diverged the “descendants of apes” into man on land and merman by sea. Seems legit.This was rated R and, for most of the film’s duration, I fail to see why. In the beginning, it’s really more childishly cutesy than anything—with a more PG murderous slant to it. Shan (Yun Lin; Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back) is a mermaid sent to assassinate Liu Xuan (Chao Deng; Detective Dee), a developer who threatens the ecosystem of her dying mer-race. Somewhere during her humorously botched attempts to kill him using sea urchins and poison, she instead shows him that money isn’t everything and they end up falling for each other.The film makes a strong pro-environmental statement. Our greedy mogul Liu buys an environmentally protected island, procures a reclamation permit to develop the land, and commissions some sort of super-charged sonar devices to repel (errr…explode) marine life. It turns out the island he bought was home to Shan’s mermaid clan (including Chi Ling Chiu and Mei'e Zhang), who live in a shipwrecked tanker where they take refuge from Liu’s sonar death rays.The CGI is poor and the wirework is weak and executed too slowly, making long jumps appear more like floating in Willy Wonka’s bubble room. The only effects I appreciated were the Octopus man’s (Show Lo; Journey to the West) cephalopod legs. We get a lot of that and he really steals the show!Overall I wasn’t very impressed with the cute aspects of the film—although, admittedly, many would favor that sort of warm fuzzy Anime-romance propelling us from first date “I love yous” to a second date proposal. However, there was one scene that had me howling-laughing out loud for its entire duration. The “octopus teppanyaki scene” is absolutely worth the price of admission and perhaps the first scene worthy of a PG-13 rating since…well…we basically see Octopus get unassumingly tortured, with his tentacles chopped up and “cooked” in a sort of classic comedy scenario right in front of him. His face is priceless! Another hilarious part was the “police station scene” complete with silly sketch art. And don’t even get me into the pants-crapping sonar test bit.As we move into our final and most violent third act, things shift more into the “hard PG-13” stage that apparently earned this an R rating. There’s no nudity, sex or profanity and there is no direct on-screen death (although much is implied and we witness several harpoonings and gunshot injuries).Director Stephen Chow (Kung Fu Hustle, Shaolin Soccer, Journey to the West) mixes seafaring folklore with Asian action cinema. If you think you’re about to watch The Little Mermaid (1989) meets Kung Fu Hustle (2004), just know it’s going to be much closer to the giggly former than the latter despite a lot of third act mermaid slaughter. And the action is not top notch—just passable. But Chow does deliver all the zaniness you’d expect with his Kung Fu Hustle roots. In addition to the scenes mentioned above, we have fishtail water sorcery smacking of an aquatic Dumbledore and the complete mermaid lair raid insanity including a mad marine biologist shooting machine guns and a leather-clad wealthy realty executrix (Yuqi Zhang; CJ7) giving kill orders and harpooning her business partner as if the two were employed by Doctor Evil!Bonkers. This was bonkers. I’m reminded of The Good, the Bad and the Weird (2008) and The Warrior’s Way (2010). This film is one part cutesy Anime romance, one part mythic-meets-modern Little Mermaid fantasy, and one part mermaid genocide lunacy. No matter what you expected coming into this, I expect you’ll be entertained!

This movie is so funny! Yet, I can see why they started off with comedy. The message is powerful ~ Learning to live in Harmony with Nature. We meet a mermaid who disguises herself and sets out to convince a rich tycoon to stop polluting the a specific water area, which is home to her village. People who are into to comedy might enjoy this.

As a 'hardcore' Stephen Chow fan, like many others, I've been waiting so anxiously for a 'Kung Fu Hustle' sequel which, for whatever reason, has yet to manifest.Until then, we'll have to be content with this, somewhat convoluted, romantic comedy laced with doomsday environmental messages.Why this was such a huge box office success in China I can't understand unless the actors happen to be fan favorites or something. This is obviously not a 'crossover' effort to engage American fans - it played only in few, selected, US theaters for about five minutes and was gone. The 3D attributes of that version were relatively modest.I will say that, true to his style, Stephen Chow still managed to mix humor, spirituality and special effects in a more entertaining and creatively unique way than any other filmmaker I know of.I still believe that Stephen Chow has the capacity (and hopefully the will) to produce a sequel to Kung Fu Hustle that will satisfy the legion of moviegoers that became his fans and are so eager to see a sequel. I want to believe that the director is holding the bar 'high' for Kung Fu Hustle 2 (if there ever is to be one) and is taking his time so as not to risk tainting the legacy of Kung Fu Hustle which is such a stellar accomplishment.