That's The Way I Like It, Adrian Pang

FEVER PITCH ''That's the Way'''s Pang yearns to be a dancing fool

Movie Review

That's the Way I Like It (1999)

Reviewed by Steve Daly | Oct 29, 1999
EW's GRADE
C-

Details Rated: PG-13; Genres: Comedy, Foreign Language; With: Adrian Pang

Just in time to exploit Broadway's ''Saturday Night Fever,'' Miramax has released That's the Way I Like It, a made-in-Singapore salute to the original 1977 movie. Hock (Adrian Pang), a grocery clerk, becomes obsessed with disco after seeing a splashy movie musical. But writer-director Glen Goei doesn't use any actual ''SNF'' footage of John Travolta in his signature white suit.

Instead, it's a lame reenactment called ''Forever Fever,'' scored with cover versions of the Bee Gees tunes, that becomes Hock's touchstone. Cute, but there's no movie here -- just a transcultural replication, with Hock's family doing original ''SNF'' scenes almost line for line. Despite the America-friendly ''Singlish'' dialogue, which requires only occasional subtitles, the conceit doesn't export well.

Originally posted Oct 29, 1999
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