Anita Mui in Drunken Master 2

One of my favorite roles that the late Anita Mui played was the wisecracking stepmother (and maternal aunt) of Jacky Chan's character Wong Fei Hung. While she is more known for her serious films, in this one she is pretty lively and funny which shows how much of an awesome actress she was when she were still alive.

If I'm to talk, one of my favorite scenes in the movie had to be whenever she tried to fool her husband Dr. Wong who acted by Ti Lung who is merely eight years older than Jacky Chan to be his father. How? She was really guilty of playing mahjong but she always had schemes the delayed the inevitable- that is Dr. Wong discovering she had been cheating on him in terms of finances whenever she played with her friends. She was also bad influence to Wong Fei Hung which was fun to watch, as there was always a comical situation.

Of course, it was never without showing the consequences of her character's actions, which rather blended in perfectly for an otherwise funny but sensible film.

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