麥兜故事

導演：袁建滔

彩色/89分鐘/2002


這是關於香港九龍大角咀豬樣小朋友麥兜的成長故事，由他的出生、上幼稚園、上中學、再講講講講，到負家產的故事。麥兜單純樂觀、資質平平，卻有很多夢想。麥太是單親媽媽，把所有夢想寄託在兒子身上。希望、失望、希望、失望……一個一個的，都是失敗，但麥兜還是憑著他正直善良的「死蠢」，創造了他美麗的世界……

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My life as McDull

Director: Yuen Kin To
Colour/89mins/2002

My Life as McDull is based on McMug, a 1991 comic strip by Brian Tse and Alice Mak. Tse was a Hong Kong writer who discovered the works of British illustrator Raymond Briggs while studying in Sydney. Mak was the artist who transformed Tse's work into a simplified art style redolent of Hello Kitty. Naturally, merchandising spin-offs soon beckoned, and the McMug menagerie soon got their own magazine Yellow Bus, as well as the first animated TV series to be commissioned, produced and broadcast as a solely Hong Kong production. This movie spin-off continues the spirit of director Yuen's TV series, with a dizzying array of techniques jostling for attention, including 2D cel animation, pencil-work, paper-cuts, fully-rendered CG, and even unadulterated live-action. Despite its claims to be a wholly Cantonese production, it remains tempting to draw parallels with several foreign works. In particular, the loosely linked vignettes and washed-out colors strongly resemble Takahata Isao's My Neighbors the Yamadas. Designed for an audience with the attention span, linguistic ability and love of repetition of the very young, the script nevertheless conceals many in-jokes for the parents in the audience.



Images from tungfilm.com.tw/ Text from Yesasia.com and Jonathan Clements; courtersy of Far East Film Festival.