Starring: Ella Chen Chia-hwa, Mike He Jun-xiang, Wang You-sheng Director: Weng Jing-ting Category: IIA (Mandarin)
Bad Girls is a bad film. The direction is silly, the acting is phony and the plot is like a teenage girl's daydream. Yet somehow it has charm, thanks to one of mankind's oldest arts - baking.
The film stars pop trio S.H.E member Ella Chen Chia-hwa as Dan, a feisty girl schooled in martial arts who enjoys kicking men. Her other passion is bread, for which she would do anything for a bite.
One day she meets Justin (Mike He Jun-xiang opposite with Chen), a superstar who is shooting a movie in her hometown. Dan injures the leading actress in an accident, and Justin demands Dan take the actress's place.
However, it turns out that Justin, son of a baker, is also a bread lover. After that, it's an on-again, off-again romance until the final, predictable, happy ever after.
Dan and Justin remain one-dimensional throughout the movie and so little happens in between the bickering and kisses that we never quite understand what makes them come together. Also, for a romantic comedy, there are few tender moments and the laughs are surprisingly sparse.
