A down on his luck Theatrical writer/director decides to restage a Peking Opera written by his late father in a supposedly haunted theater. Along the way he meets the ghost of the lead of the original show and falls in love with her.
Yes, we’ve been here before. Yes, we know how this is going to go. At the same time this is very charming and extremely entertaining. It is very much something you will want to see.
I say that because a couple of minutes in I was thinking this was the wrong sort of cute. It wasn’t hitting all the cliches but driving them into the ground as if the film was using a pile driver. I was shaking my head. But then the film got to the haunted theater and suddenly I didn’t care. Everything was clicking and I was happily sitting in my seat munching popcorn and being entertained. I laughed, I smiled and I considered watching it a second time just because it made me feel good.
Did the film rattled the pillars of heaven? No, but it entertained the hell out of the curmudgeon for two hours.
Recommended.
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