Laura Michet's Blog

You should watch Mismatched Couples

I discovered this movie around two and a half years ago when my husband's family revealed it as one of their favorites from long ago. They had an incredibly bad VCD copy... there are ways to get it in higher quality now, but you have to Go Do Things Online. I bet you can figure it out.

Mismatched Couples is a completely deranged breakdancing teen movie starring an impossibly young Donnie Yen. It's directed by Yuen Woo-ping, a legendary choreographer in Hong Kong martial arts cinema, and the guy who would eventually go on to choreograph The Matrix.

Yuen Woo-ping acts in the movie as well, and his character is horrible. A lot about the movie is extremely tasteless! It's also just unbelievably strange and funny, both intentionally and unintentionally. You can tell that the people who made this one were extremely good at only some things, haha. The result is something in the "cult film" domain.

The thing this movie is great at is choreography. The whole movie is just bizarre choreography, end to end. Here's the opening credits:

And here's a scene early in the film where he breakdances while getting dressed:

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