Directed by and starring Yuen Cheung-Yan, this serves as the spiritual (and sort of) third entry in the legendary Miracle Fighters series. Operating under the powerhouse Yuen Clan banner—the cinematic bloodline of patriarch Yuen Siu-Tien (Jackie Chan’s beloved master in Drunken Master)—the film operates entirely on Looney Tunes logic. Physics are treated as polite suggestions, plot threads are picked up and dropped like hot potatoes, and the comedy stretches from sublime kinetic wizardry to the most absolute lowest-brow, Benny Hill-level slapstick imaginable.
The paper-thin pretext involves a buck-toothed, perpetually sloshed beggar priest (Yuen Cheung-Yan) who is tasked by his temple brethren with rounding up a crew of pure, virginal young men. Why? Because the realm is under siege by the Old Devil (Yuen’s brother, Yuen Shun-Yi), a supreme baddie with supernatural abilities, aided by a potion-addicted female warrior named Starry Devil (Hilda Liu), and driven by a terrifying goal of global domination.
Enter Yuen Yat-Chor as Wu Shun, a young, earnest fighter tangled up in the mess alongside a gallery of eccentric characters, including a wise grandmother and a pair of bickering sisters. What follows are funerals interrupted by reanimated corpses hunting for golden teeth, extended gag sequences involving the consumption of urine, a literal Marx Brothers mirror routine performed by martial arts dynamos and a bizarre, unannounced needle-drop of Howard Jones’ “New Song” blaring on the street.
It also has, well, a giant watermelon-looking monster. Created by the grandmother to guard the plot’s MacGuffin, this smooth-skinned, razor-toothed puppet bounces around like a rabid amphibian, speaks in a high-pitched child’s voice and deploys spring-loaded satellite dishes that function as breast detectors. No notes.
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