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Because they caused such an uproar in heaven, the Gods decide to have
the fairies Dragon Fighter Lo Han (Stephen Chow) & Tiger Fighter Han
Lo (Ng Man Tat) reborn as human beings, & they will only be admitted
to heaven again when Lo Han manages to alter the ways of a beggar, a
prostitute & a villain ... but with using almost no magical powers.
On earth, Tiger Fighter soon turns into a grown-up baby, so he is not
much help, but Lo Han becomes a (mad) monk, soon finds 3 suitable
individualy, begger Ta Chung (Anthony Wong), prostitute Hsiao Yu (Maggie
Cheung), whom he even saes from being burned on a stake, & villain
Yuan Pa Tien (Kirk Wong) ... but at first, Lo Han seems to have no success at all:
Hsiao Yu, once saved from a burning, wants to repay even him with sex,
& later only learns from Lo Han to masquerade her profession better,
Ta Chung seems to have begging in his blood, no matter how much Lo Han
gives him, & Yuan Pa Tien has no intentions at all to rethink his ways
...
It gets even worse when Ta Chung is killed, & when trying to
retrieve him fropm an interstitional netherworld & its giant demon, he
even loses the golden body, which Lo Han has borrowed from a temple
& which has granted him access into the netherworld ... & without
the body, the netherworld is out of reach.
Having failed on Ta Chung, Lo Han tries to at least make good on
Hsiao Yu - & since she has promised him to stop whoring once they are
married, he marries her on the spot ... but when fairies marry mortals
they turn into logs - & soon Lo Han becomes more & more wooden ...
so shortly after their marriage, Hsiao Yu denounces him & cuts her
face ...
To at least bring back Ta Chung from the dead, Lo Han now sets out to
steal a golden body & a golden scepter from Yuan Pa Tien - who of
course doesn't give them up without a fight. In teh end though, Lo Han can
defeat the villain, make him see the errors of his ways & renounce his
sins - just before dieing.
with the golden body & the golden scepter, Lo Han calls the giant
demon from the netherworld to his world ... an idea not really thought
through as the giant immediately sets out to kill Lo Han, & runs
everything down that stands in his way ...
To destroy the demon, Lo han in the end has to enter his mouth &
rip him apart from the inside, even if that means his own death ...
But will he go to heaven ?
The Gods say no, but the Buddha of Mercy (Anita Mui) says yes: through
him, Ta Chung (or rather his reincarnation) has gained enough self esteem
to no longer be a beggar, Hsiao Yun´, with her cut up face, no
longer works as prostitute, & with his last breath, even Yuan Pa Tien
showed remorse.
Mission not only accomplished, Lo Han even becomes an elder God.
A blend of fantasy/mythology & nonsense humour (typical of Stephen
Chow back then) that is not always wholly successful - aometimes cheap
jokies stand in the way of the story -, but is not without its moments
either - I especially loved the scenes where the demon goes after Lo Han,
& the scene of Lo Han leaping into the demon's mouth to destroy it -
now how often do you see something like that ?
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