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The story of six ghosts sharing an apartment: There's Ah Boon (Shaun
Chen), a notorious do-gooder who's sort-of the leader of the gang, cynical
Wang Yi (Ling Lee), who's secretly in love with him, annoying hip hop duo
Hip (Xavier Teo) and Hop (Ben Yeung), Madam Wong, who even after her death
can't stop cleaning up after her (still alive) son, and psychotic Ah Leng,
who kidnaps the living who can see him (according to this film, not just
anyone can see ghosts). One day though, Ah Leng kidnaps David (David Aw),
who turns out to be not a human but another ghost who's looking for
friends - and he's welcomed into the ghost gang with open arms, especially
after he shows them how to have fun (if you're a ghost for the rest of
forever, things might get prettty boring you know). Ah Boon though does
not approve of David, since he is about to take over his gang, and thus he
leaves the others, while David teaches them how to
scare off new tenants who want to move into the ghosts' apartment. Then
though, David abandons the others and turns out to be a human after all, a
psychic investigator who wants to use them to prove the existence of
ghosts, and it is only thanks to Ah Boon that the ghosts manage to scare
David away. After this, Wang Yi is finally able to confess her love to Ah
Boon, but then she's reincarnated. In a twist ending, the cameraman of
the film turns out to be a psychic investigator as well - even if that
makes no sense. In writing, this film sounds a whole lot more
clichéd than it actually is, as the plot of Men in White actually
takes backseat to a series of nonsense situations about its main theme
(ghosts) that are at time so crazy they are hilarious. Unfortunately
though, not all jokes in this film are ingenious, there are enough gay
jokes and toilet humour one could have done without, but about all five to
ten minutes, Men in White actually contains a laugh-out-loud joke -
and while the film is uneven and by no means a classic, time and again
it's a whole lot funnier than most of the comedies I have seen lately ...
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