Dachimawa: A hero who gets things done by being silly

   Scrolling through the other posts for this week, I saw students make references to last week's film, Indiana Jones, James Bond, and Mission Impossible. I would say that this character, Dachimawa Lee, was more similar to Austin Powers though the latter may be more prone to making sexual innuendos. I had not seen Austin Powers for ages, but I am positive he and Dachimawa are so silly and so clueless to the point where they simply don't think through conventional, practical strategies and just go by instinct. And generally that instinct is of a type that normally trained spies would not possess. And perhaps the only time when they actually attempt to practice and improve whatever fighting techniques is when their enemies were able to "humiliate" them and beat them to a pulp (not literally of course).  However it's their silliness that makes these characters endearing to me. I get that as main protagonists and as heroes, there is a 99.9% chance they won't die in the film, but because the way they think can only be their trademark and no one else's, so radical and outrageous are their thoughts, no one can honestly foresee the results of any clash. Films like these are unpredictable, adding to my satisfaction, though we can be rest assured that they will keep the same tone of hilariousness from beginning to end.

   The only disappointing thing about this film is that there was barely any evil mastermind whom all good forces focus on eliminating. There were a few people you could say are bad for they try to outrace the Korean spies in the hunt for the Golden Buddha. Yet they could never come close to the evil mastermind I see in a few Marvel movies or Dr.Evil, just to relate back to the comparisons I drew with Austin Powers. And can someone tell me why Dachimawa and Austin Powers always had a beautiful, sexually attractive female agent as their assistant/sidekick? Is it because beauty, like sex, always sells? It could still be a hilarious and commercial success without such a bombshell. I say this because I just thought about how successful Harold and Kumar and Hangover were.