Fridae

Despite the faux Shakespearean title, All's Well Ends Well2009 is no classic. The filmmakers are clearly hoping that the third movie in the franchise will be as popular as the 1992 and 1997 movies. But this one is just too lame and poorly-directed to be enjoyed.

Comedienne Sandra Ng plays a Devil-Wears-Prada-esque magazine editor, a high-powered bitch-on-wheels who scares off every man she meets. Her singlehood means that younger brother (Ronald Cheng) can't get married, because familial dictates insist no one's to wed until the eldest sister, Sandra, does.

Desperate, Ronald turns to gorgeous "date doctor" Louis Koo to seduce his sister and make her more interested in the general male population. Hilarity would, presumably, flow from this premise.

But despite a plot line very similar to Will Smith's Hitch, writer-director Vincent Kok has managed to squeeze nearly all joy from the story with his clumsy script and less-than-assured direction. The gags fall flat, the jokes rings false, and the plot is thin.

In a word, disappointing.