Drea takes them to the park where they discover one of the Critters, not realising that it is the Krite queen. Drea’s brother Phillip, who has a liking for Trissy, insists on coming along. Drea takes the job, which turns out to be babysitting Lacy’s two children Trissy and Jake. Her former best friend Mandy has been accepted and suggests that Drea take a job for the history department professor Lacy, which will go towards her recommendation. She wants most of all to get into local Leroy College but has been rejected.
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This is based on a novel from Xiao Ding titled Zhu Xian that has already been made into a TV show.Krites comes down near a small town and begin devouring everything they come across. Yet, this was a big hit in China so what do I know. Ching Siu-tung saved all his cool stuff for the end. If only they had done this earlier and left at the cutesy stuff on the editing floor. I can't say this ending makes the film worthwhile but at least I didn't throw it in a ditch afterwards. And all of a sudden all these characters you have become vaguely familiar with begin getting killed - and I was what the hell just happened.
It gets good really fast with some of the best designed creepy looking bad guys I have seen in a while - this puppet master and his deadly puppet, the boar man, a man who can suck bodies into him, an albino screaming female that would make you lose your lunch. The evil Ghost King makes a very late entrance and turns the film on its head in a second. At that point I was watching it mainly for the three very attractive females in the cast. Especially with an animated monkey hanging around. So for 75 minutes I thought this was just completely light adolescent fluff - lovely looking fluff - some imagination by the designers for sure - but it was so juvenile - in particular from the lead character that I thought this must have been for children. Or as Trump would say - Super Duper Powers. Until he finds this stick that gives him powers that he doesn't understand or control. Xiaofan belongs to one of the groups and he is the low man on the totem pole - the cook. Did I mention that there is a dragon that shows up for one minute to snack - literally to snack - and never returns. Oddly, none of the martial arts is even mildly impressive. They are all good guys who spend much of their time using silk to fly about. A brief plot summary if I might - there are a number of friendly schools all under the Cyan Cloud Sect. It even has a school competition of martial arts that has the excitement of a wet sponge. It sort of wants to be Harry Potter with all the different schools of martial arts disciples in their various colored outfits - their young annoying faces - insufferable acting - zero characterization. The warmth and friendships all feel so manufactured and as unreal as the sets. It has the artificiality of a heart valve. Absolutely vapid - but so is the film for most of it. Two of them are pop idols and it didn't take a genius to guess that. The majority of the acting duties fall to a group of young actors who have the heft of dandelion dust floating in the wind. Unfortunately, they are nearly unrecognizable behind their beards (except Cecilia of course) - and perhaps age - and are certainly not the major players in the film. And if you look at the actor credits, it has a remarkable group of older Hong Kong actors from the good old days - David Chiang, Norman Chu, Xin Xin Xiong, Cecilia Yip and Leung Kar-yan. This film did not change that impression.īut I made an exception for this one because I had intended to see it here in Thailand last year but circumstances kept me away and also because the film has some strong links to Hong Kong - the main one being the director Ching Siu-tung, who along with Tsui Hark remade the wuxia film in Hong Kong back in the 1980s and 90's but has mainly been absent of late. I get the impression that lately their wuxia films have become soft and too focused on CGI over story and so have kept my distance. China clearly hit its stride in wuxia films back in the early part of the century with Hero, House of the Flying Daggers and Banquet - all gorgeous films but with a backbone. Also, because if I need a wuxia hit, there are still plenty of Shaw Brothers films that I have yet to see. Partly because I am lazy and the idea of trying to get to know a new set of actors with names that I can't possibly pronounce or remember.
For the most part I have avoided the Mainland wuxia films over the past decade or so - even though for all intents they have taken that genre away from Hong Kong with big budgets and laid-on thick special effects. I expected the film to break into song like Maria in West Side Story "I'm so pretty". Everything including the actors look like they are freshly scrubbed with Clorox. This Chinese Mainland wuxia film is like sinking into a pool of multi-colored cotton candy.
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