Before it veers off course, The Rooftop is lively, funny and colorful... Too bad Chou decided to shoehorn the gangster genre into a movie that would have worked just fine as a mere comedy-romance-fantasy musical.
The Rooftop(天台)
Taiwan, China, Hong Kong · 2013
2h 0m
Director Jay Chou
Starring Jay Chou, Alan Kuo, Li Xinai, Kai-wei Chiu
Genre Comedy, Action, Drama
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Taiwanese pop sensation Jay Chou, drawing on his years as an actor, director, and recording star, creates a fantasy playground of music, moves, and magic as a backdrop to an action comedy which pays homage to the wondrous musicals of the past, while exploding to life with today’s sound and spirit.
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The New York Times by Daniel M. Gold
The Rooftop is frenzied, funny and knowing, drenched in lavish, often surreal, imagery.
Like a school pageant with a Broadway-sized budget, this noisy production is a pileup of extravagant dance numbers, candy-colored sets and vintage props that, sans the requisite heart or hip factor, soon overstays its welcome.
Los Angeles Times by Robert Abele
The Rooftop is a bullet train to bananasville, its tonal eccentricities sure to wear out even the most dedicated connoisseur of silly cinema.
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