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Lovely, innocent young schoolgirl Liu (Phintusuda Tunphairao) is
kidnapped by gangster Yai (Somlek Sakdikul) and his (incompetent) gang and
held for ransom in a high-rise building - which would be bad enough as it
is, but exactly in this building Sars has broken out and is turning people
into zombies at an alarming rate. Liu's father has no intention to pay the
ransom, so he hires superhero Khun (Supakorn Kitsuwon) to free her.
Khun is successful inasmuch as he saves Liu from the gangsters, but
then they run into zombies and have narrow escape after narrow escape, and
the situation isn't made any easier by the fact that a giant snake is
roaming the building as well.
Eventually, the gouvernment has learned about the situation in the
building, and first they decide to shoot all the infected - but a
SWAT-team is virtually wiped out by the zombies - later they decide to
just blow up the building unsing time bombs. But of course, there is one
courageous doctor, Diana (Lene Christensen), who thinks she has found the
cure for SARS, and who wants to go in to save all those infected - and she
is only helped by Master Thep (Suthep Po-ngam), Khun's superhero teacher.
Once Doc Diana and Master Thep are in the building though, all kinds of
stupid things happen, and they end up having sex at the least appropriate
moment and the like. Khun meanwhile has been bitten by a zombie, and is
slowly turning into a threat to Liu - oh, need I tell you the two have
fallen in love -, and ultimately he realizes he has to save her from
himself, which leads him to call his master ... who literally arrives with
Khun right wile having sex. Eventually though, Khun is able to heal
himself by eating himself through a medicine cabinet, and he and Liu
almost immediately decide to have sex, before the foursome decides it
might be a good idea to leave the building ASAP. But of course, the
zombies are still around, and so is the giant snake, the bombs are about
to go off - and Liu suddenly out to be gangster Yai, a transsexual, in
disguise, who has pushed Liu out of a window to take her place way back
... which means of course that Khun has lost his innocence to him and not
Liu the woman he loves, but Yai swears he has fallen in love with Khun -
before he gets his just desserts at the hands of the zombies.
Of course, our heroes make it out in the end, and just in time too, and
of course they find the real Liu, who has survived being pushed out of a
window, and of course everything ends happily ...
Of course, Sars Wars is not to be taken seriously for even one
minute: It's an over-the-top zombie comedy with plenty of outrageous and
outrageously funny gore scenes, sex jokes aplenty, deliberately silly
action setpieces, pop culture references (e.g. a light saber with weak
batteries) and the like, and it's also a movie that doesn't mind to be
amazingly trashy at times, to often hilarious effect.
That all said, Sars Wars falls several feet short of being a
masterpiece, it's simply too blunt and too uninventive to achieve this,
but as a mindless (but not uninspired) genre parody and/or a perfect
partyfilm to be consumed with beer aplenty, it still works like a charm.
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