The Mermaid (2016)
Directed by Stephen Chow
When Xuan's real estate project threatens the home of mermaids, Shan is sent to stop him. When they fall in love, he is encouraged to cancel the project. However, he must save them from bigger danger.
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What critics compared The Mermaid to
Bong’s humorously cynical approach to all sides of this struggle likens Okja to Stephen Chow’s environmentalist action comedy The Mermaid , as does its descent into some unsparing brutality toward the hunted super pigs, but he eventually abandons the broadness of his satire and settles more on a good-guy-vigilante-versus-evil-corporation narrative, back-peddling on more interesting thematic ambitions.
Last year, Stephen Chow’s wondrous The Mermaid became the most financially successful film in China’s history but barely caused a ripple in the U.S. Chow took the alien thesis of his 2008 CJ7 (which was an expansion on E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial) and made a human-based, adult comic fantasy about threats to cultural heritage within modern China’s class-divided society.