Police Officer Fui-On Shing (Tsu Hsiang, The Killer, A Better Tomorrow) is having himself quite the day. After visiting a Buddhist temple that forewarns him of ill luck headin’ his way sooner rather than later, he ditches his pregnant wife Chu (Siu-Fung Wong) to follow up on a lead on a bank heist supplied to him by his teenage orphan sidekick/ridiculous individual par excellence Power Steering (Wai-Kit Tse).
After a chase, Shing gets the drop on the criminals at a construction site, but ends up getting a palette of rebar dropped on him instead. Left for dead, a magic cat sits on him (I have no idea) after which he is struck by lightning.
As it would with anyone, both of those things result in his super-powered zombie resurrection… and he’ll stay a member of the walking dead as long as he keeps shocking himself with electric jolts.
Along the way he gets mixed up with Power Steering’s kinda girlfriend Gucci (Gloria Yip) who is on the run from the exact same criminals, lead by Kill Bill and Shin Godzilla co-star Jun Kunimura, that did Shing in due to her having lifted their bag of ill-gotten gains during the fracas with Shing in the construction site!
Will Shing be able to bring the criminals to justice, learn to deal with his condition and stay alive (enough) to witness the birth of his child… and prove to his wife that he is not having a homosexual relationship with Power Steering and is indeed interested in her?!
Director Kai-Ming Lai and screenwriter Kam-Hung Ng deliver… and I mean really deliver… an absolutely bat-shit insane experience with The Blue Jean Monster, a film that answers the ages old question of: “What would Dead Heat have been like if it were produced by Troma”?… and let me tell you, the answer is just as completely unhinged as you could imagine!
Among the ruined breast implants, pre-chewed noodles, diarrhea jokes, and rampant violence we get a tale imbued with elements of action pics, the horror biz, and most importantly, laughs… all blended together in a heady stew that puts forth a surreal, psychotronic blend of the 1970’s The Incredible Hulk TV show aesthetics mixed with sitcom nonsense and bursts of extreme violence!
Making all of the superhero tropes, comedy, criminal goings-on, and domestic insanity gel is the strength of The Blue Jean Monster‘s cast.
Featuring John Woo regular Tsu Hsiang in a definite departure from his dramatic action picture roles (giving him a real showcase for his charisma and comedy chops), we also get strong turns from Siu-Fung Wong as the beleaguered housewife Chu… who often steals the show with her hilarious over-reactions to nearly every challenge life throws her way, most revolving around her unwanted house guest Power Steering, who is her perfect foil as portrayed by Wai-Kit Tse.
As for bonus material to enhance one’s enjoyment of The Blue Jean Monster we get an interview with Assistant Director Sam Leong, who provides a fascinating conversation discussing both the production of the film at hand, as well as his over-all career in the HK film biz, the film’s trailer, and a still gallery.
Also included are a slipcover, insert, and folded mini-poster featuring not only the film’s original poster art, but brand-new new artwork by James Neal as well.
The Blue Jean Monster is one hell of a hilarious, action packed, pseudo-superhero fracas that will appeal both to lovers of Troma-style humor, and those that absolutely devour the stranger side of HK cinema in equal measure!
