The film opens with Shu Qi on a beach in a bikini (a great start to a film that only gets better); she is the narrator who tells the tale of eight-year old Peach, a little girl who longs to be eighteen, so that she can find out exactly what it is that boys and girls get up to when they go out together. When Peach asks the Sacred Tree to make her all grown up, she wakes up the next day to find that her wish has come true. Peach is now a rather tasty teenager, and she proceeds to try and find out what love and sex are all about.
The Fruit Is Swelling comes across like a twisted adult version of the Tom Hanks movie Big, and is packed with wall-to-wall nudity and soft-core couplings from the beginning. The little girl in this film doesn't waste time getting a job in a toy company; she's too busy watching her sister (big breasted Christine Hung) getting jiggy with her boyfriend and spying on her sex-mad dad (played by Cat III legend Elvis Tsui) seducing every woman he sees. Eventually she falls for her school swimming instructor Danny, but will she do the dirty with him and will he mind the fact that she is really only eight-years old?
This (surprisingly romantic) shagathon is actually very enjoyable, and if you can put up with the dubious nature of the plot, there is loads of fun to be had. Chun Chung, as Peach, is absolutely gorgeous and the film is worth watching for her alone. However, the fact that there are many other busty babes in the film all willing to shed their clothes for the sake of their art doesn't hurt either. Pretty much every female in the film strips off and gets down to the deed at some point in the film.
The movie actually manages to successfully avoid the whole 'paedo/child porn' angle with a soppy ending that sees Danny wait ten years before he finally gets to roger Peach (she reverts back to her original age before he makes a big mistake!). At the very end, he is reunited with a 'genuinely' eighteen year old Peach, and gets to 'break her in' in his pool (a scene ripped off from that great Verhoeven 'classic' Showgirls).
Shu Qi appears before the final credits to end her story and then she frolics in the sea for a while. Sweet!.
The Fruit Is Swelling comes across like a twisted adult version of the Tom Hanks movie Big, and is packed with wall-to-wall nudity and soft-core couplings from the beginning. The little girl in this film doesn't waste time getting a job in a toy company; she's too busy watching her sister (big breasted Christine Hung) getting jiggy with her boyfriend and spying on her sex-mad dad (played by Cat III legend Elvis Tsui) seducing every woman he sees. Eventually she falls for her school swimming instructor Danny, but will she do the dirty with him and will he mind the fact that she is really only eight-years old?
This (surprisingly romantic) shagathon is actually very enjoyable, and if you can put up with the dubious nature of the plot, there is loads of fun to be had. Chun Chung, as Peach, is absolutely gorgeous and the film is worth watching for her alone. However, the fact that there are many other busty babes in the film all willing to shed their clothes for the sake of their art doesn't hurt either. Pretty much every female in the film strips off and gets down to the deed at some point in the film.
The movie actually manages to successfully avoid the whole 'paedo/child porn' angle with a soppy ending that sees Danny wait ten years before he finally gets to roger Peach (she reverts back to her original age before he makes a big mistake!). At the very end, he is reunited with a 'genuinely' eighteen year old Peach, and gets to 'break her in' in his pool (a scene ripped off from that great Verhoeven 'classic' Showgirls).
Shu Qi appears before the final credits to end her story and then she frolics in the sea for a while. Sweet!.