The Fruit is Swelling (1997)



	The Fruit is Swelling		Return to Review Archive - F
	Year:	1997	Chung Chun does her Sailor Moon impression
	Director:	Chin Man-Kei
	Cast:	Jane Chung Chun, Hung Hiu-Wan, Fong Shuen, Tsui Kam-Kong, Danny Wong Shu-Kei, Yuen King-Tan, Shu Qi (cameo)
	The Skinny:	The time is wasting. But you get what you pay for.
	Review by Kozo:	Possessing of the same Chinese language title as 1993's Crazy Love (the Loletta Lee Lai-Chun disrobing party), this popular sleaze-romp is basically a Category 3 version of the movie Big. Hot newcomer Chung Chun plays a girl named Peach, who ages 10 years from 8 to 18 thanks to a magic wish made under a magic tree. Put off at first, she puts her trust in her promiscuous sister, who’s eager to help her younger sister. Peach also befriends a local swimming instructor named Danny (Danny Wong), and through all this starts to discover the mysteries of adulthood (i.e. love, kissing, and the whole nine yards). This is actually a somewhat decent little charmer helped by an appropriately child-like performance by Chung Chun. However, the charm ends as soon as people rip their clothes off and start bumping and grinding. Frankly, all the time-outs for people to get it on are somewhat out of place. Not helping this is the presence of Mr. Category 3 himself, Tsui Kam-Kong, who appears solely to act wacky and do every woman in sight. Chung Chun shows why she’s such a hot commodity, and amazingly the film has the sensitivity to avoid the idea of child porn entirely. This is an okay time waster if you're in it for the the raunchy scenes (and there are a lot of them!). But the Sailor Moon references, were those really necessary? (Kozo 1997)
	Availability:	DVD (Hong Kong) Region 0 NTSC Mei Ah Laser Widescreen Cantonese and Mandarin Language Tracks Removable English and Chinese Subtitles

		image courtesy of Mei Ah Laser Disc Co., Ltd.
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