The idea of “Hot Summer Days” is to explore how love always seems to blossom whenever the weather gets hot. There are a lot of heat-related triggers to these romantic tales. Jacky Cheung stars as a single father who begins an SMS romance with a masseur in Shenzhen (Liu) who has no air-conditioner. Nicholas Tse is an air-conditioner repairman who meets a mysterious biker chick (Barbie Hsu) after she tears off her clothes to take a kind of quasi-skinny dip on a hot summer’s night. An innocent toy factory worker in China (Angelababy) dares a bold admirer (Jing Boran) to stand under the sun for 100 days in exchange for her love. Daniel Wu is a sushi chef who rejects a writer’s love (Vivian Hsu)—OK, this one has nothing to do with hot summers really. But at the end of the day, most of these tales are happy but clichéd, though there are little details here and there that touch your heart. The acting is consistent, everyone is pretty and, well, it’s just what you expect from a feel-good film.