Where's Officer Tuba?
CAST

Sammo Hung
Jacky Cheung
David Chiang
Joey Wong
Hwang Jang Lee
Chang Yi
Yuen Wah

ACTION
Hung Ga Ban
WRITER

Barry Wong

PRODUCER
Sammo Hung
DIRECTOR

Ricky Lau
Philip Chan

RATING
   Where's Officer Tuba?
Where's Officer Tuba?
AKA : Spirit And Me
Year : 1986     Reviewer : Tony Ryan

Throughout the 80's Sammo and his team managed to effortlessly create a plethora of hugely entertaining action comedies, albeit on fairly small budgets. This addition to the Hung collection is a fairly generic cops and robbers tale, with a little supernatural thrown in to make it a little different.

 

 

Sammo plays "Tuba", a fairly cowardly cop who would rather play in the police band than get involved in anything remotely dangerous. The precinct's "supercop" (David Chiang) uses him in an undercover operation to deal with some extortionists, but gets killed when the exchange becomes violent. Sammo is left holding his hand as he dies and unwillingly promises to avenge his death. Unfortunately, Inspector Chiang returns as a ghost, only able to communicate with Sammo, and forces him to fulfil his promise.

 

 

As mentioned, the 80's are full of action comedies, with most of the best being produced or directed by Sammo. He has superb comic timing, and his performance here will have you laughing out loud. As ever, a Sammo film must have action, and although sparse, we are treated to some quality encounters featuring the likes of Yuen Wah and Hwang Jang Lee amongst the rest of the talented Hung Ga Ban. Lightning fast movements with perfect editing combine to add to Sammo's huge list of entertaining fight scenes. Jacky Cheung performs capably, and with some artful doubling is made to look a pretty tough fighter.

 

 

The attractive Joey Wong provides the female interest, but is given little to do, and the story would not change much if her character were never there. However, she does provide a source of comedy moments, one of which involving a family meal which is absolutely hilarious. Overall, this is an above par HK action comedy and would please all fans of the genre - especially fans of Sammo like myself.

Distributor : Universe
Region : 0 (NTSC)
Running Time : 92 mins
Video :
Letterboxed at 1.85:1 with a surprisingly clean print accentuating Andrew Lau’s colourful cinematography. The best way to see this film by far.
Audio :
Mono Cantonese or Mandarin soundtracks with Chinese (traditional or simplified), Indonesian and English removable subtitles.
Extras :
- Talent files for Sammo Hung, Jacky Cheung, Ricky Lau and Phillip Chan
- Trailers for this film as well as 'Owl Vs Bumbo', 'Paper Marriage' and 'Lucky Stars Go Places'
Notes :
N/A
Where's Officer Tuba?
Where's Officer Tuba?
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