Product Details

• Actors: Nicholas Tse, Dickie Cheung, Fan Bingbin
• Format: Box set, Color, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: Cantonese
• Subtitles: Chinese, English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 8
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Tai Seng
• DVD Release Date: January 30, 2007
• Run Time: 1800 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000K98FKS
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #124,837 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars good for family entertainment and also sufficient for one who is watching alone at 5 am ..., June 12, 2007

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shin (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Handsome Siblings: The Complete TV Series (DVD)

this series is really good. good acting, good fight scenes, engaging, fast-paced plot, very WELL-DONE bad guys, great romance, this show has it.
The acting is good, particularly Little Fish/Dicky Cheung. He was alternately the funny guy, the dependable older brother, the loyal friend, the passionate lover and the brains behind the gang. cheung was able to switch very naturally between these attributes, giving his Little Fish a very complex, real personality that the audience can fall in love with and become very attached to as the series progressed.
Nicholas tse, well, OK, he is hot. With that great luscious hair and those flowing snow-white robes, he was just gorgeous in his role as Flawless Flower. For Nic fans, this series is worth watching just to sit and gape at the man. However, Flower does a lot of disappearing in this series. He just vanishes for a long time and pops up unexpectedly when he feels like it. That somewhat distanced me from his Flawless Flower. I just didn't care too much about him. But Nic tse too was good in this role. He can play the ruthless killer (the fight scenes in this show, with him, are just fantastic),dumb "log" and inexperienced child very well. But as the series goes on, situations called for a different kind of acting from him and he was able to perform that as well, very admirably and convincing too. <note that moment in the bridge when Little Fish called him "useless". His look of child-like hurt and vulnerability was awesome and tied in so well with Flawless Flower's character.
fan bing bing, other than bringing her very good looks to the screen, does little to really affect the story. she was fun at the beginning with Little fish but got boring in the end.

The beginning of this series will drag a little. but by being patient makes up for it as the series gets very exciting very quickly and is definitely worth it.
another good thing to be noted about this series is, the bad guys were VERY good as bad guys. They were not a bunch of morons, continually tricked by the good guys. They were smart, cunning, deliciously underhand, very sneaky and very powerful. However, as each bad guy has his evil reign and does the most evil he can, after a while, it is as if the directors are tired of them and they make a short appearance (after quite a long absence, be it lack of doing evil deeds or really disappearing) to be conveniently "disposed" off. that was really quite anti-climatic and sort of put me off.
another thing to be noted is, this show really has a lot of casualties. People die for other people and then, those other people end up dying as well. really depressing to tell you the truth. And of course a lot of wasted beauty and "Dang! bad timing". It got a little too excessive at the end, with the directors trying to milk out as much tears as they can from their audience. and if the audience knows that, it doesn't work too good.
Also, events were very well-linked and connected, each episode revealing a little more to that big picture. that is, only until around eps 20 something. After that, that big picture was done and everything sort of mellowed down a lot, with just 1 main event running the show. The rest of the time, seemed just to wait for the good guys' revenge. The series reached its climax too fast and lost steam at the end.
the humour of this show, at times, is an acquired taste. the chinese instrumental music in the series was good, and this does not just mean the 2 themesongs by Cheung and Nic Tse. the music during the show really helped the mood at times and was very well done.
One really should watch this series. If not for the other good parts of it, at least for Cheung. He was absolutely fantastic in this series. I felt so much for Little Fish, it was absurd. I was crying so much and I am the sort of person who roll my eyes at Leo and Kate and movies like the Notebook.
this is definitely a very good show. enough entertainment, action, tears and GOOD bad guys, what more do you want??

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Engaging and addictive TV serial, May 13, 2007

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Susan Newhall "Susan Newhall" (Washington D.C.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Handsome Siblings: The Complete TV Series (DVD)

I'm a Hong Kong cinema fan, but rarely have I found a series that entertains me as well as this series. The acting is great, the martial arts are good, the pace is fast (of course), and there are plenty of site gags, romance, drama, comedy, action. It's an involved and complex plot, but I enjoy it on many levels - with no sound, for instance, since the scenery is rich and beautiful and could stand as a character on its own, especially once you've watched with the sound and subtitiles. I enjoy the music, the colors, the witty dialog, the timelessness of the themes, the fresh and unique verbal encounters, the sense of wonder in many of the romantic exchanges. It's a series I feel comfortable and entertaining to watch with my mom, my kids, my friends, my spouse or all by myself. I'm not tired of it after 3 watchings (over time) of the 8 DVD's. What a treat!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome series, October 30, 2007

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Serene (Marina, CA, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Handsome Siblings: The Complete TV Series (DVD)

This is a highly entertaining WUXIA series about two brothers separated at birth: Little Fish (the protagonist) was raised in a place called evil valley by a group of evil people who are really just misfits. His younger, and handsomer brother Flawless Flower, was raised by the women who killed his parents and has been raised to be the defender of the temple and to fight against the men who mistreat women (!).

As if this premise were not intriguing enough, this 8 disc series is very long and complicated! I agree with the other reviewer who said the villains are very well-done. None of them (Well, with the exception of Eunuch Liu) are entirely evil. I found myself really sympathizing with Biehe and his daughter even though they were bad. Flower is my favorite character... He is very hot... Especially in his white costume. I also like the relationship between the two brothers. While Little Fish grew up poor, he at least had a somewhat nurturing home life. Flower is taught very strictly by the masters of the Floral Palace.

Be warned, the first hour is perhaps my least favorite part of this series. Also, there is a lot of comedy, especially early on which takes a while to get used to... A touch more sophomoric than I like....If you persevere, however, you will discover this is a very addicting and well thought out series. Excellent!

5 stars.