My First Local Movie in Cinema

I have never...

In my entire...

20 years and 11 months to be exact ...

Watched a local produced film in a cinema...

 Until yesterday...

Hikayat Merong Mahawangsa

I don't know whether to praise and tease the movie or just simply tease the movie.

This movie is Malaysia's first foreign language historical film.

I read in Wikipedia that this movie is actually about Kedah and it's first King. 

There were Indians *only in the beginning of the movie*, Romans, Chinese, and Malays.
The bad guy of this movie is half of a Malay clan called Geruda so Merong who suddenly became King of the other half of the Malay clan together with the Romans and Chinese worked together to dispose of the Gerudas and save China's Princess/Rome's Prince Marcus's fiancee~

Chinese don't sound like Chinese

Malay don't sound like Malays

Lucky English sound like English

But Tamil no Tamil but got Tamil accent~

I think they hired pure "bananas" to act as the Chinese because once they opened their mouths to speak...me and my friends started laughing like shit !!! WTH is wrong with their Chinese??? And their soldiers have damn modern hair cuts. SPIKY !!! MOHAWKS !!! And the way they act were too modernize...especially the Roman prince, Marcus. What is with his body postures? Shoulders slouching, hands flinging, head swinging, showing attitudes, VERY ungraceful. No wonder his father kicked him out to marry China's princess. And their armor look like my brother's old plastic armor toy. The abs looked damn fake !!!

China's princess, her MALAY sounds better than Merong speaking Malay !!! Apparently China is multilingual in this movie because the princess and her maid can speak Chinese, English, BM and Latin. The only problem was their English sounded like the way Phua Chu Kang's Ah Ma speak !!! SERIOUS !!! Especially the princess's maid....i swear i thought she was PCK's Ah Ma without Ah Ma's makeup. You do know Ah Ma isn't really an Ah Ma? She's actually young and have real authentic BLACK hair. 

Now about Merong, he really looks and SOUNDS like my lecturer Zan Azlee !!

He was the comedian and hero in the movie. He's English is better than his Malay and Chinese is better than the "banana" Chinese Admiral !!! OMG lucky i wasn't drinking at that moment !!!
During the last battle scene was awkward because Merong made this laser beam made out of mirrors and with help of the sun's rays, the Gerudas looked damn fake falling into the water. It was damn obvious they counted to three and jumped in willingly.

I'd say the movie wasn't so bad lah~

They did spent RM8mill on it.

I thought it was gonna be a serious emotional film. Who would have thought we would be laughing our asses out in the cinema. Before i forget, the whole cinema was packed with Malays except us 4 noisy Chinese girls laughing every time the actors sound weird with their languages. Seriously damn funny !!!