Oh.

Oh ouch.

This is so bad. OMG, so horribly horribly bad that I couldn't stop watching it.

I was thinking it might be something like Charlie's Angels, or even High Kick Angels or Chai Lai Angels: Dangerous Flowers but with Kung Fu, but not even close. This is a college rom-com about a privileged new-transfer girl trying to hook up with the Wushu team captain coach. She's got a goofy cousin, low man on the team in glasses and mussed hair who's the secret admirer of the other Wushu team coach (the female who's actually the hottest and most martially skilled actor), a roommate with an ugly facial birthmark who'd rather be a dancer but does Wushu because she's too ugly to dance, and an arch nemesis team led by an iron body villain who looks like John Candy if he were Chinese. So it all centers around the old Team championship arc, with a dancing championship thrown in for good measure. Where this film is astoundingly bad is the fight choreo, ridiculous physics and absurd wirework, but bad in that cartoonish way. For example, during one of the bouts it's 5x5 with the good guys wielding spears and the bad guys wielding bian (those bamboo-like batons) and round shields. The object is to knock the opponents off the puzzle mats. At one point, several of the shield-wielders curl up into a ball and start rolling around the ring trying to bowl over the good guy. The other weird thing is the privileged gal's dad bears a resemblance to Thomas Oh, founder of Tiger Claw. The odd thing is this was directed by Herman Yau, who delivered Ip Man: Final Fight (not a Donnie Yen Ip) the year prior.

ooouuuuuuuccccchhhh.

Here's the trailer: