This movie on DVD looks like an old VHS tape with the white English subtitles that you can't remove. Of course everyone in the movie wears white and the subs are on their white clothes so you can't read half of them. A thousand years in the past an old bearded giant white eyebrows guy is doing battle with a witch with a V on her forehead. He is aided by two "fairies" (women not guys who like Kathy Griffin) who capture a "bead" or glowing fx ball. We are suddenly in 1990 and join the side splitting Captain Mambo HK police something or other and his crew of mugging goofballs. While they are supposed to be investigating headless corpses, Mambo meets one of the "fairies" who is being chased by the witch/demoness for the "bead". Most of the film is Mambo being "cute" with the "fairy" which I guess is romantic in HK. I thought the funniest part was a guy going on for five minutes about shoes and how they don't have laces anymore and you can wear sandals or boots while Asians who are as bad dancers as one can imagine get down all around them. Anyway Mambo finds out he has the second and critical "bead" and puts a gun to his right temple and pulls the trigger. Now the "fairy" gets the "bead" and kisses Mambo (the hole in his head is on the left side now) and brings him back to life but fades away as he keeps saying "Come back!" There is very little kung fu in this film. A lot of traveling around HK and being cutely romantic and a little "magic" of flying and ray beams and such. There's a whole lot of very dumb humor. I compare this like Chinese food. There's Chinese food in a restaurant and then there's Chinese food in a can you get in a supermarket. This movie is like that.
2 Reviews
Boring and awful - could have had potential.
OllieSuave-0071 October 2022
This Hong Kong horror comedy, about a Demoness from a thousand years ago threatening to break into the real world to wreak havoc while two fairy disciples attempt to destroy, could have had potential. The opening of the movie with the creatures doing battle in martial arts fashion delivered some promise, but much of the movie scenes that follow quickly went downhill.
Rather then focus on the main plot of the two fairies dealing with the Demoness, the movie instead delves into the boring romantic subplot of the police detective (Jackie Cheung) and one of the fairies (Joey Wang). Along for the ride are the detective's goofy colleagues and dumb wannabe ghost catcher, delivering nonsensical comedy crap. There's also this cop vs. Bad guys subplot that adds onto the stupidity of the plot.
Much of the acting is childish and the boredom of the love subplot really drags on and on; there is unfortunately no suspense or intrigue in the film - everything was just thrown in like a mess. The only redeeming quality is the villainess (Meg Lam). She plays the part of the Demoness quite well and is the only actor in the movie that delivered any type of dramatic fashion.
For some reason, many of Hong Kong's ghost and horror comedies focuses too much on the subplots rather than the actual paranormal points. This movie is no exception, but unfortunately, nothing much can be said for any entertaining values.
Grade D--
Rather then focus on the main plot of the two fairies dealing with the Demoness, the movie instead delves into the boring romantic subplot of the police detective (Jackie Cheung) and one of the fairies (Joey Wang). Along for the ride are the detective's goofy colleagues and dumb wannabe ghost catcher, delivering nonsensical comedy crap. There's also this cop vs. Bad guys subplot that adds onto the stupidity of the plot.
Much of the acting is childish and the boredom of the love subplot really drags on and on; there is unfortunately no suspense or intrigue in the film - everything was just thrown in like a mess. The only redeeming quality is the villainess (Meg Lam). She plays the part of the Demoness quite well and is the only actor in the movie that delivered any type of dramatic fashion.
For some reason, many of Hong Kong's ghost and horror comedies focuses too much on the subplots rather than the actual paranormal points. This movie is no exception, but unfortunately, nothing much can be said for any entertaining values.
Grade D--
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