| Money No Enough 3 | |||||||||||||
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| Director: | Jack Neo | ||||||||||||
| Editing: | Yim Mun Chong | ||||||||||||
| Country: | Singapore | ||||||||||||
Money No Enough 3 (Chinese: 钱不够用3: 全部够用) is a 2024 Singaporean comedy film written and directed by Jack Neo. It is the standalone sequel to 1998's Money No Enough and 2008's Money No Enough 2, with Neo, Mark Lee and Henry Thia portraying as three kampong friends and brothers as each of them faces their own family and financial problems. In their attempt to join forces and support each other, their grand plan falls apart when the younger generation challenges the beliefs and value systems of the trio. This resulted in their respective families facing multiple money problems and having impacts on each other and their families.
The film features three kampong friends and brothers who grew up and became very close together along with their family: Li Qing Huang, Zhang Ming Hui and Liang Da Qiang, whom are all young seniors, each face their own family and financial problems. Qing Huang is a delivery man doing delivery services, Ming Hui is an owner of a Teochew porridge stall and Da Qiang is a Grab driver. In their attempt to join forces and support each other, their grand plan falls apart when the younger generation challenges the beliefs and value systems of the trio. Qing Huang’s mounting debts drive him to desperate measures. He borrows money from Ming Hui and Da Qiang and builds illegal businesses that eventually prosper. However, his greed gets the better of him and he refuses to return any borrowed money from Ming Hui and Da Qiang. Amidst his financial success, one of his businesses collapses, impacting not only his own family but also families of Ming Hui and Da Qiang, the two of which had sold their cars and gave the money earned to Qing Huang for him to invest. After Kim Li, Qing Huang's daughter, falls out with her father Qing Huang over his increasing greediness and quits working for him, she walks into the rain in a daze and is struck by lightning. In addition, Ming Hui's wife ends up getting liver failure as she was eating health supplements from Qing Huang's business. After a series of tests are conducted on Ming Hui's family and relatives to find a liver donor, Qing Huang ends up being the only suitable one for Ming Hui's wife. Remorseful of his actions, he agrees to a liver transplant. After the successful operation, he is put under investigation by the police for his sale of illegal e-cigarettes in Singapore.
A few years later, Qing Huang is released from prison, and is warmly welcomed back home by his friends, joined by his daughter and Ming Hui's wife, both having made a full recovery.
This film is the first film co-produced by Jack Neo under the HiJack Pictures banner − a joint venture outfit formed in 2022 between Neo's J Team productions and distributor-producer Clover Films.[5]
Budgeted at S$2.8 million, the film was financed by HiJack Pictures and mm2 Entertainment. Production commenced in October 2023 and is scheduled to complete by end of November 2023, with a targeted release during 2024 Chinese New Year holiday season. It was filmed entirely in Singapore.[6]
It was released during Chinese New Year period on 1 February 2024.[7]