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Take 2 (2017)

Take 2 poster
Original title
遇见贵人
Directed by
Ivan Ho
Genre
comedy film
Country
Singapore
Runtime
1h 48m
Rating
4.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

During Chinese New Year in Singapore, a group of characters find themselves in comedic situations. Old friends and rivals clash in unexpected ways. The story follows their funny misadventures and reunions.

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What happens

Take 2 (Chinese: 遇见贵人; pinyin: Yùjiàn guìrén) is a 2017 Singaporean Chinese New Year comedy film directed by Ivan Ho and executively produced by Jack Neo. This marks Ho's directorial debut after being a longtime scriptwriting partner of Neo's, and one of two films distributed by mm2 Entertainment during the Chinese New Year period in 2017, the other being The Fortune Handbook. It also marks the on-screen reunion of Maxi Lim, Gadrick Chin, Wang Lei and Chen Tianwen after their previous collaboration in the Naval Diving Unit movie known as Ah Boys to Men 3: Frogmen. Secondly, it also marks another on-screen reunion of Maxi Lim and Chen Tianwen after their previous collaborations as son and father respectively in the Ah Boys to Men film series including Ah Boys to Men, Ah Boys to Men 2 and Ah Boys to Men 3: Frogmen, and also as disciple and martial arts and lion dance master respectively in the Lion Dance movies The Lion Men and The Lion Men: Ultimate Showdown, but unfortunately, they will be portraying as enemies in this film. Moreover, it also marks another on-screen reunion of Gadrick Chin and Chen Tianwen after their previous collaboration in Mr. Unbelievable, where they also portrayed enemies in the film. Furthermore, it also marks another on-screen reunion of Ryan Lian and Wang Lei after their previous collaborations in Long Long Time Ago, Long Long Time Ago 2 and The Diam Diam Era Two. Also, Gadrick Chin and Henry Thia would later collaborate again in the movie known as The King of Musang King and that Ryan Lian, Maxi Lim, Kanny Theng and Henry Thia would later collaborate again in the movie known as Money No Enough 3. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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