Still best known on these shores for his role as Dirty Balls in the original Ong Bak, comedian Mum Jokmok is - to put it mildly - a huge star in his native Thailand. A fixture on television as well as the big screen, the prolific comic not only stars as a performer but has also slowly been building a name for himself as a writer and director as well with technicolor comedy Yam Yasothon winning both popular success and critical praise. Currently hard at work on the Yam Yasothon sequel, Jokmok also threw his weight around recently to get another comedy from the main Yam Yasothon creative team off the ground. The film is Wor, an absurd slapstick comedy about a small village struggling to deal with a rabid dog. It's basically as though the Zucker Brothers have gone an taken up residence in Thailand. Stupid? Oh, yes. Funny? Mileage varies wildly on Asian comedy but the trailer got more than a few giggles out of me. Check the trailer below.
This was released in Thailand in July of last year. Does anyone know why it's being promoted now? Maybe Sahamongkol are trying to drum up overseas sales?
Really? They just released the subtitled trailer yesterday and I don't think they've ever taken it to market. Weird.
I think whoever is running that YouTube channel is uploading a bunch of subtitled trailers, just for the heck of it. Wacky fun.
Your post prompted me to go digging though, and I was reminded that the director was Bunjong Sinthanamongkolkul, who's teamed up with another young director, Sutthiporn Tubtim,for the new Sahamongkol thriller Maha'lai Sayong Kwan (Haunted Universities), just released this week to go head to head with Slice. And there's a subbed trailer for that too.
great makeup on that dog!