Find Your Voice (PG)

Starring Andy Lau, Loletta Lee, Eddie Kwan, Lowell Lo

Directed by Adrian Kwan

At a time when China is clamping down on pro-democracy protestors in Hongkong, here comes a Hongkong movie where the youths are encouraged to express themselves. But Find Your Voice doesn’t make any overt political statement; it’s a simple feel-good movie, though not a very good one. Andy Lau lends his star power to this well-meaning but leaden drama as a washed-up conductor who goes beyond the call of duty to ready a group of problem youths for a choir competition. As underdog stories go, it’s an undemandingly paint-by-numbers exercise. Not even the music can redeem the dreariness. Lau has another movie out this month, an actioner called Shock Wave 2. I haven’t seen it but judging from the trailer, it looks noisy enough to make keep me awake. (**)

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