This is actually Lam Ah Chun III, except that the English title now refers to Josephine Siao's lovable kooky character as Plain Jane. If the previous productions (Lam Ah Chunand Lam Chun Blunders Again) suffered from crude and trashy, cheap jokes, this latest slapstick under the Golden Harvest banner is the smoothest
and most refined in the series, under the direction of John Woo.
Lam Ah Chun (or Plain Jane) is her usual fumbling, mumbling self who encounters a series of misadventures in a variety of jobs from painting roads, doubling as a stand-in stunt girl and finally as a governess to a tycoon whose vicious son wants to take over his financial conglomerate and real estate business in Hong Kong. Ricky Hui, as Jane's patient suitor, gets nowhere as the girl seems to have no time for love. So Ricky goes along with her in her odd jobs that she gets, then loses very quickly.
In fact, the film is just a series of mini-jokes or sequences about Jane's off-beat jobs. There are many zany moments that show some brilliant ideas and high creativity, but the film unfortunately only works in parts and is quite forgettable as a whole.
Mel Tobias