"Happy Hereafter" wraps modern cooking competitions with ancient martial arts stories, which coincides with "Ghost Story", but the times are reversed. At the same time, Tsui Hark continued to laugh wildly in the movie. For example, Anita Yuen imagined himself and Leslie Cheung as Yamaguchi Momoe and Tomokazu Miura, and performed a farewell play, which made people laugh. As a gangster, Leslie Cheung is not a gangster, but all his men are highly educated, while his eldest brother plays around and swallows peppers. There is also the long-lost cooking master Zhong Zhentao, who was forced to carry out a series of "training" in order to restore his taste, which is the nonsense technique of the characters; As for kung pao chicken, Big Fish Jump, Seafood Chowder Rice, Bear's Paw Breast Augmentation, True and False Monkey Brain, etc. , but also the nonsense of food (Sina. Com comments).
"Happy Ever After" is a New Year film with a strong comedy style, but it is directed by Tsui Hark, and there is also some heroism in it. In this film, Leslie Cheung once again showed his true colors as a hero, playing an affectionate underworld boss. Although he is a gangster, he has a unique charm when playing. Unlike the cruel and abnormal Jing Kun and the fierce and cold-blooded raven, Brother Leslie Cheung has his own style, and his opponents are all supercilious to other bosses. For his ex-girlfriend, he even put down his boss's identity to learn cooking (Golden Eagle Online Review).
"Happy Ever After" has some fragments of demonstration skills, and these superb film skills make this film called "China Diet Kung Fu Film". Tsui Hark rarely shoots fashion comedies, regards Chinese cuisine cooking skills as martial arts moves, develops superb cooking skills, and pays attention to dishes. The scene is amazing. In the end, the Manchu-Han banquet brought China's culinary art to the extreme. The whole movie has a lively rhythm and a warm atmosphere, and the performances of several leading characters are also unhurried and just right, which can be called Xian Yi's masterpiece (Time Network Review).
The biggest charm of this movie is that Tsui Hark regards the struggle between chefs as a martial arts competition, which is fried like a sword. Under the dazzling knife work of the retired chef played by Zhong Zhentao, everything from abalone bear's paw to vegetable tofu is so delicious and attractive; On the other hand, Leslie Cheung showed the clumsiness, progress and curiosity that a novice kitchen should have. As the film shows, the Manchu-Han banquet is a top feast, but it emphasizes the carving of details everywhere. Only when the foundation is solid can the cognition of food and life reach a new height (Time Network Review).