Review | Kiss My Ass Boss movie review: Crowd Lu is awful in this insufferable Taiwanese workplace ‘comedy’
- Singer-turned-actor Crowd Lu is the weakest link in this already excruciatingly unfunny film adapted from the comic-book series I’m Mark by director Chu Yu-ning
- It tells the story of a long-suffering office dogsbody, condemned to work overtime every night an advertising agency, who suddenly finds himself promoted to CEO
1/5 stars
Workplace comedies are as old as cinema itself, from Charlie Chaplin being swallowed by a factory assembly line in Modern Times to Jacques Tati navigating an endless sea of identical cubicles in Playtime.
The gargantuan success of The Office, in both its British and American incarnations, was due primarily to the inherent familiarity of its mundane setting and the oddball characters forced to collaborate towards some abstract greater good.
It’s an experience and environment many of us have been forced to endure, and from which just as many yearn to escape.
Kiss My Ass Boss, a new Taiwanese workplace comedy adapted from the comic-book series I’m Mark by director Chu Yu-ning (To My Dear Granny), embodies this sentiment perfectly.
The film tells the story of a long-suffering office dogsbody, condemned to work overtime every night at a bustling advertising agency.
