I'm not entirely sure how this movie escaped my notice when I was picking and choosing from Cecilia Cheung's filmography. It's always bothered me that she was in a lot of romances with older, unattractive guys. I've most enjoyed her in things like Cat and Mouse and White Dragon. Anyway, this is a Wong Jing movie. Which means it may not make sense at any given time, may contain cringe-worthy crude jokes, and is probably freakin' hilarious anyway.

I didn't realize, but apparently Wong decided to steal Stephen Chow's genius pairing of Yuen Wah and Yuen Qiu for several other movies after Kung-fu Hustle. And here they play Cecilia Cheung's parents as awesome martial artists. The story is kind of like Harry Potter. The martial artists live in the normal world, hide their powers and send their kids to a "magic" school when they come of age. And there's also the scary Lord Voldemort character, called White Eyebrows, who really isn't all that scary, lol.

Leo Ku plays Cheung's extremely dopey love interest (but he's still cute), and it's sort of his fault the whole thing starts, because White Eyebrows is trying to kill him for surviving a massacre. There's also a lot of Stephen Chow movie regulars in this, and Wong Jing naturally makes a cameo.

There's not much point in running down the plot, because it's ridiculous. But suffice to say, it was pretty laugh-out-loud funny and plenty entertaining. And I really enjoy this kind of nonsensical, movie-parodying, crass humor, so I'll probably always like Wong Jing. His haters can step to the left, lol. Y'all got no sense of humor, I'm sorry.

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