随身危机

　　在爱琴海面，一架豪华游艇上，六个人在出海捕鱼，决定玩一个有趣的游戏，充满挑战和冒险。赢的人将会是最强的男人，他将获得“海上骑士”指环。

　　话说这一日，唐朝和尚唐僧（何藩 饰）带着沿途手下的徒弟孙悟空（周龙章 饰）、猪八戒（彭鹏 饰）、沙和尚（田琛 饰）跋山涉水，历经艰苦，辗转来到了烈火炎炎的火焰山。因当年悟空大闹天空踹翻了炼丹炉，导致天火降落人间，非铁扇公主（丁红 饰）的宝扇不能灭除。悟空因之前降伏红孩儿，致令结拜大哥牛魔王（井淼 饰）及其夫人铁扇公主对其恨之入骨，坚决不肯借扇子，由此上演了三盗芭蕉扇的好戏。
　　经过一波三折，师徒四人好不容易闯过火焰山，结果又遭遇白骨精姐妹（郑佩佩 何莉莉 饰）两姐妹的阻截。为吃到唐僧肉，白骨精变化多端，诡计频出……

　　Ah Huang, Ah Qiang and Ah Hui have been friends for as long as they can remember. When Ah Huang's mounting debts drive him to desperate measures, Ah Qiang and Ah Hui agree to lend him money. He uses the money to build an illegal business. Even after the business become successful, he refuses to repay the money to his friends. However, when the business collapses, Ah Huang is forced to question everything as his family, friendships, and remaining money are all threatened.

　　Siskel and Ebert once ran a special show entitled "Movies I'm Embarrassed to Admit I Liked." I suppose that if I composed such a list of guilty pleasures, this one would be one of them . . . but upon reflection, it's really a lot better than that. Fifteen year-old science prodigy Mitch (Gabe Jarret) is recruited by ambitious college professor William Atherton (in yet another of his patented roles as a loathsome character) to work on the professor's prize laser project, not knowing that the prof is really developing a government weapon. Along the way, Mitch is befriended by Chris (Val Kilmer), another prodigy a few years his senior who teaches the Mitch how to loosen up.
　　This could have degenerated into nothing more than just another teen revenge comedy, but there's so much more: the dialogue is laced with sharp wit there are some lovely scenes that have nothing to do with the story yet are carefully set up, almost as blackouts (e.g., Mitch goes to a lecture at which a few students have left tape recorders instead of attending later, at another lecture there are more tape recorders than students and, in a final scene, one large tape recorder gives the lecture to a room populated by nothing but other small recorders!) and throw-away scenes that make you want to stop and back up the tape (e.g., Chris off-handedly cutting a slice off a bar of solid nitrogen to make a slug for the coffee machine).
　　It's also one of the few movies to boast the presence of the memorable Michelle Meyerink -- as Jordan, the "girl-nerd" who made being smart and female something to be emulated. And there's Tears for Fears great song, "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" providing the perfect coda as the closing credits begin to roll . . . . Yes: really now, what's there to be embarrassed about?