Fitness Tour (traditional Chinese: 減肥旅行團; simplified Chinese: 减肥旅行团) is a 1997 Hong Kong comedy-drama film.[1][2][3] Directed by Liu Guoquan, it stars Lydia Shum, Hou Yiaohua, Gong Hanlin, and Jiang Qinqin. The film is in Cantonese and is 90 minutes long.[1]
| Fitness Tour | |
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 Fitness Tour film poster | |
| Chinese | 減肥旅行團 |
| Directed by | Liu Guoquan |
| Screenplay by | Yeung Hiu-Hung |
| Produced by | Zheng Kai-Nan |
| Starring | |
Production company | Sil-Metropole Organisation Ltd. |
Release date |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Language | Cantonese |
Plot
editManager Hou is very wealthy, and he comes up with another idea to make money. He organized a weight loss tour which lets the fat man go to the tourist side of the Three Gorges River. There they can both go sightseeing and lose weight. He asks a beautiful girl, Jingjing, to be the leader, which attracts a lot of fat people. The guide QinQin gradually gets to know Hou's hypocrisy and cheating behavior, and stands up to protect the interests of customers. Hou finally admits his mistakes, and gets everyone's understanding. Finally, all members in the tour more or less lose weight, except Lydia from Hong Kong, who is still very fat and always keeps eating.[4]
Reception
editAccording to Cross-Strait Magazine, the film did well at the box office and had an enthusiastic audience.[5] The Southern Metropolis Daily's Wuji Qiu included the film among a list of "low-quality domestic films that are tantamount to tofu-dreg projects".[6] Qiu said films like Fitness Tour did "a show of buffoon-like characters, unfunny lines, and vulgar performances".[6] Nanjing film critics included Fitness Tour on the "Ranking of Good and Bad Movies" (Chinese: 優劣電影排行榜).[6]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "资料：沈殿霞影视作品一览-《减肥旅行团》" [Information: List of Lydia Shum's film and television works - "Fitness Tour"] (in Chinese). Sina Corporation. 19 February 2008. Archived from the original on 12 November 2023. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
- ^ "午间影片 减肥旅行团" [Lunchtime Film: Fitness Tour]. Lianhe Zaobao (in Chinese). 31 January 1998. p. 35. Retrieved 12 November 2023 – via NewspaperSG. Ministry of Communications and Information.
- ^ Zhang, Yan 张燕 (2021). 在夹缝中求生存——香港左派电影研究 [Surviving in the Cracks—A Study of Hong Kong Left-wing Films] (in Chinese). Beijing: Beijing Book. ISBN 9787301181157. Retrieved 12 November 2023 – via Google Books.
- ^ "肥姐作品集：《减肥旅行团》" [Lydia Shum's Works Collection: "Fitness Tour"] (in Chinese). Phoenix Television. 11 October 2007. Archived from the original on 12 November 2023. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
- ^ "Cross-Strait Magazine article". 海峽两岸杂志 [Cross-Strait Magazine] (in Chinese). 1997. Retrieved 12 November 2023 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b c Qiu, Wuji 邱无忌 (26 April 2000). "食而无味"豆腐渣"" [Tasteless food "tofu dregs"]. Southern Metropolis Daily (in Chinese).
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