Review of Where's Officer Tuba?

WHERE'S OFFICER TUBA? was made a couple of years after POM POM (1984) and produced by another of Sammo Hung's production companies (D & B instead of Bo Ho). An hot shot detective (David Chiang) dupes a timid officer (Sammo, after his ambitious fellow cop/roommate (Jacky Cheung) volunteers him) into a dangerous ransom drop off. Things don't go well, and ghostly vengeance is played for laughs, along with a dollop of romance.

Sure, it is fantasy, but there's still plenty of similarities between the two movies. TUBA is more equally balanced between the action and the comedy, where POM POM definitely erred on the side of comedy. The humor in both was certainly along the same lines. Maybe the characters are just more likable. Joey Wong was so cute....damn, she must have been about eighteen/nineteen when she acted in this. The fights are good, and the comedy funny, what more can you ask for?


8/10