Money No Enough

1998 [CHINESE]

Action / Comedy

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 67%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 67% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 275 275

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Plot summary

"Money No Enough" is about three friends of different backgrounds who end up facing the same problem of surviving in a cash-strapped society where lack of money can bring endless problems. The film stars Chew Wah Keong (Jack Neo), who is white collar but a spend thrift, Ong (Mark Lee), a contractor, and Hui (Henry Thia), a coffee shop waiter who has a crush on his customer...

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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by wui75

Movie which reflects the true-self of Singaporeans

For my own opinion, I feel that this is a very good movie which potrays the everyday life of an average Singaporean, a very true-blue Singaporean movie. The actors and actresses are quite natural too, as they're basically acting their own characters in true life.I don't think this movie degrades Singaporeans in any way, instead, it made us realise that we are just as kiasu(scared to lose), as greedy, as lavishing as the characters potrayed.The theme of this movie is a good one. It's about 3 Singaporean men, an office worker, a renovation contractor, and a coffee-shop assistant. The office worker Keong, starred by Jack Neo, spends more on what he earned each month buying on luxuries and stocks. One day he resigned from his job as he was discriminated by his boss, and he lost alot of money from his stocks too. In the end, he had to part with every of his luxury items and waiting to be sued by the bank. The contractor Ong, starred by Mark Lee, borrowed money from a loanshark to import imitation tiles from Taiwan .In the end he got cheated, and had to hide from the loanshark in Johor Bahru(Malaysia). The coffeeshop assistant, starred by Henry Thia, is perhaps the most honest but funny character. Without him, the movie will be boring. He fancied a girl who patronised the coffeeshop, and bought a large antique handphone because he thought he can woo the girl with a handphone. Because of his lusty mind, he even visited a prostitute but don't have the courage to have sex!I hope that the Jack Team Productios will make more of such movies in the near future. It's certainly a great production with a smack of true Singaporean languages like Singlish, Hokkien, Mandarin, etc. You can't watch any show with these contents on TV as dialect programmes are banned from showing on public TV channels.Jack Neo, keep up the good works!
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Reviewed by paul_haakonsen 3 / 10

A comedy devoid of laughs...

I stumbled upon the 1998 Singaporean comedy "Qian Bu Gou Yong" (aka "Money No Enough") by random chance here in 2023. And with it being an Asian movie that I hadn't already seen, of course I sat down and gave the movie a fair chance.

But this movie was a difficult movie to sit through. It is listed as a comedy, but there wasn't a funny moment throughout the course of the movie. So talk about a swing and a miss from writer Jack Neo and director T. L. Tay.

And it didn't help much that the entire character gallery was a farce. It was all characters that I took no liking to, nor could associate with in any sense or form. And that just added to the frustration of an already lacking movie.

I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in the movie, as I am not overly familiar with Singaporean cinema. But I have to say that I wasn't impressed with the performances that I saw on the screen.

There is also a part II for this movie, made in 2008, but after having suffered through the ordeal that is the 1998 first movie, I can honestly say that I am not even going to bother with the sequel.

My rating of "Qian Bu Gou Yong" lands on a generous three out of ten stars.

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