For Your Height Only
He’s tough. He’s tender. He’s three feet tall.
Evil quakes for only one man: Agent 00. Sure he’s no taller than most nightstands, but Agent 00 (Weng Weng) is a force to be reckoned with. No thug can survive his tiny fists of fury, and no woman can resist his compact charms. Agent 00 faces his biggest challenge when he finds himself entangled with the expansive crime syndicate run by the enigmatic and notorious “Mr. Giant.” Working with a beautiful undercover agent named Irma, Agent 00 must call upon all of his investigative skills, combat training, and seductive wiles to defeat the unwavering horde of goons and bring justice to Mr. Giant.
What a great, fun, profoundly weird movie. A far-out take on James Bond films (featuring strangely similar music), For Your Height Only is hilarious—but I’m not entirely sure it was supposed to be a comedy. All the elements are there to earn it that genre assignment, but I’m still not sure. There aren’t enough “comical” moments to convince me that this isn’t merely a hugely nuts film that is so crazy it’s funny.
And that’s fine. If the filmmakers wanted to play it straight—and I suspect they did—all the better! Weng Weng is awesome as Agent 00, mainly because he plays the role as a legitimate spy. He’s not clowning around or trying to make contrived humor work; he’s playing the tough guy role straight, and that juxtaposition with his small stature is fantastic.
Look, I’m not trying to pick on little people, and I don’t think this film is doing that. In fact, by giving Weng Weng the straight role is, to me, an act of better taste than the stream of shameless and unfunny “midget” throwaway jokes you see so much in comedies these days. I need to pause here to say, again, that this film is more awesome than your life.
