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The Mermaid
Directed by
Stephen Chow
R
2016
1h 34m
Comedy
,
Fantasy
,
and more
6.2
95%
60%
6.5
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When Xuan's real estate project threatens the home of mermaids, Shan is sent to stop him. When they fall in love, he is encouraged to cancel the project. However, he must save them from bigger danger.
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Cast of The Mermaid
Lin Yun
Mermaid Shan
Deng Chao
Liu Xuan
Zhang Yuqi
Ruolan
Show Lo
Brother Eight
Tsui Hark
Uncle Rich
Wen Zhang
Constable Mo
Kris Wu
Long Jianfei
Lee Sheung-Ching
Constable Shi
Lu Zhengyu
Mr. Liao / Co-Writer
Chiu Chi-Ling
Mermaid Long
Zhang Mei'e
Mermaid
Gao Shuang
Liu Xuan's Bodyguard
Linah Matsuoka
George's Assistant
Barbie Liu
Mermaid
Xu Zhenzhen
George's Assistant
White-K
Museum Visitor
Kong Lianshun
Museum Visitor
Tenky Tin Kai-Man
Museum Visitor
Wilson Chin Kwok-Wai
Mermaid Fat
Lam Tze-Chung
Technician
The Mermaid Ratings & Reviews
AV Club
Jesse Hassenger
Arguably Chow's most accessible movie since Hustle.
Antagony & Ecstasy
Tim Brayton
Lives in a place of friendly absurdity.
Pajiba
Rebecca Pahle
It's funny, it's frenetic, it's filled with over-the-top violence and it's occasionally just plain twisted.
National Review
Armond White
Chow cares mostly about Liu and Shan's love story - how their spiritual lives transcend their class differences. Yet, Chow balances romantic concerns with the sociological message. Most American films today...work backwards.
The Playlist
Andy Crump
Demonstrates Chow's innate understanding of the physics of humor better than anything he's made since perhaps 2001's Shaolin Soccer.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
It offers a visual reprieve from the cumbersomely mechanized aesthetic of so much contemporary fantasy.
Salt Lake Tribune
Sean P. Means
One of the loopiest movies ever made, managing to be borderline unwatchable and weirdly enchanting.
Nerd Report
Fred Topel
The Mermaid is ridiculous, but it has something to say which is the best kind of ridiculous. We should stop brutal whaling practices, but look at it as a mermaid comedy.
The Young Folks
Gary Shannon
The Mermaid is a deftly balanced comedy, an absurdist, ecological nightmare with an equal capacity for generating empathy as it does hilarity from its larks.
Village Voice
Michael Nordine
You've already seen most of what Chow and his seven(!) co-screenwriters have crafted, and you've usually seen it with greater coherence and more impressive CGI.
Slate
David Ehrlich
In The Mermaid, Chow never forgets that the camera is the funniest tool at his disposal, and the only one that speaks in a language that everyone can understand.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
I had a really good time.
The Film Stage
Michael Snydel
Chow's comedic sensibility works like a pinball machine, characters ricocheting off each other at top velocity to gain momentum for the next joke.
The Hollywood Reporter
Elizabeth Kerr
Chow and his army of writers (seriously, it took nine people to write this) get terrific support from a strong cast of regulars and newcomers who really sell the story, cheesy special effects aside.
Variety
Maggie Lee
Like an ecological Lust, Caution, this contempo fairy tale about a mermaid who falls for the evil developer she's been sent to seduce and assassinate is strikingly relevant to China
Los Angeles Times
Martin Tsai
Crass and macabre, yet big-hearted, it makes a wonderfully adult bedtime story.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Bilge Ebiri
It's amazing how distinctive and strange Mermaid manages to be, especially given the highly derivative concept - how personal it feels, amid all the absurdist, go-for-broke humor. It deserves to be seen.
RogerEbert.com
Simon Abrams
It doesn't matter if you don't like subtitles. It doesn't matter if you've never heard of the director. It doesn't matter if you've never seen a Chinese movie in your life. It will make you laugh. Guaranteed.
Entertainment Weekly
Dylan Kickham
Chow and his actors present a full-force farce. Sure, some jokes fall flat, but the sheer magnitude of ridiculousness has you forgetting about that soon afterwards.
New York Times
Glenn Kenny
"The Mermaid" is no ordinary fantastical rom-com ... encompassing as it does weaponized sea urchins, incredibly delicious roasted chickens, man-octopus self-mutilation and other comic oddities.
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