Detective chinatown is euphemistically called detective solving a case, but in fact it contains heavy comedy factors. This film, which is known as the lowest value in history, is worthy of the name because of Wang, Sean's insistence. In the film, Wang plays a diaosi gangster who calls himself a detective and walks around Chinatown under the protection of his tricks, cleverness and police. Wang's performance is in the same strain as his playing dumb in "Embarrassment in Thailand", with low face value, low IQ and low jokes, so whenever he opens his mouth, he will attract bursts of laughter. Chen He and Sean are even meaner, playing a pair of degenerate detectives whose face value and IQ are lower than the new level. For the throne of the deputy bureau, the two men fought in the dark again and again, silly and unlucky, just like being possessed by a "stupid fool", which made people laugh at themselves.
Small Shenyang, Zhao Yingjun and Sang Pingping, a group of silly supporting roles in soy sauce, appeared at the right time. In addition to continuing to bless the film's reputation as "the lowest face value", they also joined hands with three lower-class people, including Wang, to stage a series of episodes of laughter and fainting, which became an indispensable part of the film. As one of the few female characters in the film, Tong Liya sacrificed a lot for this play. Heavy make-up, eccentric elves, bold and alert, are particularly eye-catching among a group of male characters.
Detective chinatown is not only selling jokes and cheap things, but also paying tribute to the classic Hong Kong comedies. And director Chen Sicheng's accomplishment is also very high. Unlike other films, which turn tribute and worship into simple imitations and shanzhai, director Chen Sicheng pays tribute and worship to the classic Hong Kong comedies and fully internalizes them according to the plot content and the characteristics of the actors. So when Jackie Chan's action comedy and Stephen Chow's nonsense comedy appear repeatedly in the film, although there is a feeling of deja vu, they will not be taken over by others. After all, the reappearance and repetition of those classic scenes, after the deduction of Wang, Chen and Shawn, are more in line with the performance styles of Wang, Chen and Xiao, and more in line with the overall style of detective chinatown. I have to say that Chen Sicheng paid tribute to the classics with great tenacity.
If Wang, Chen and Xiao are mainly responsible for making cheap comparisons, the appearance of this small fresh meat not only raises the value of the film to a certain extent, but also raises the IQ of the film, thus making the main plot more suitable for the word "detective" in the title of Detective Chinatown. The handling of the investigation link, the film created a lot of suspense and horror, accidents and reversals, all of which were done naturally rather than deliberately. The process of investigating a case focuses on the discovery of subtle details, the arrangement of unexpected accidents and the display of flashes. Detective wizard Qin Feng (Haoran Liu) is young, but he is familiar with British Sherlock Holmes and has a lot of research experience in Japanese Jin Tianyi. Therefore, he can get logical reasoning results from clues, leaving no dead ends and bugs, thus solving unsolved cases one by one.
Another thing that makes people feel very expensive in Detective Chinatown is that detective stories and funny stories are not completely divided into two parts, but organically combined and complemented each other, making the whole story relaxed, focused and flexible, greatly improving the audience's viewing experience.