This is a wildly inventive and funny film that is a breath of fresh air.
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06/18/08
CJ7 (2008)
45 %
Reviews Counted: 60 Fresh: 27 Rotten:33 Average Rating: 5.3/10
Consensus:
Eccentric and sweet, Stephen Chow's latest is charming, but too strangely and slackly plotted to work as a whole.
Runtime: 88 mins
Synopsis: Chinese writer-director-comedian Stephen Chow (SHAOLIN SOCCER, KUNG FU HUSTLE) takes a break from his usual action-comedy adventures for an E.T.: THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL-inspired tale of family bonds and personal integrity. Chow stars as Ti, a down-on-his luck widower who must funnel... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Stephen Chow, Xu Jiao, Kitty Zhang, Lam Tze Chung
Director: Stephen Chow
Screenwriter: Stephen Chow, Vincent Kok
Producer: Stephen Chow, Chui Po Chu, Han Sanping, Vincent Kok
Composer: Raymond Wong
Screenwriter: Stephen Chow, Vincent Kok
Producer: Stephen Chow, Chui Po Chu, Han Sanping, Vincent Kok
Composer: Raymond Wong
Reviews
Always intriguing but not always fully involving, CJ7 still features, as with its resurrecting dog, Chow's enlivening touch. Even when his film isn't completely absorbing, it seems he never met a dying genre cliché he can't reanimate.
05/29/08
CJ7 is a deceptive little delight, a movie that wisely avoids the pitfalls of its obvious homage to set its own cinematic course
05/16/08
CJ7 acknowledges the clichés, sometimes embracing and sometimes satirizing the conventional depictions of kids and adults in family films.
04/30/08
While to many audiences it might seem bizarre and out there, it's perversely watchable.
04/24/08
China has a lot to answer for these days -- unsafe food exports, unsafe toys, Tibet. And now CJ7.
04/11/08
Chow's loyal fans are sure to be disappointed by CJ7, and the film faces one other significant problem in traveling to these shores: Any kid who is the right age to appreciate this pap is going to be too young to read subtitles.
04/11/08
Chow is so heavy-handed at erecting wish-fulfilling or sentimental setups that each slapstick reversal becomes easy to predict. He showers heroes and villains alike with sap.
04/04/08
Even with its flaws this comedy is more interesting kids' fare than most sanitized studio releases.
03/28/08
This is a fable of forgiveness and regeneration, but it delves into a child's deepest, darkest fears. Fortunately, things turn out OK in the end.
03/28/08
Top Critic
I don't doubt [Stephen Chow's] talent. With this one, though, I doubt his story sense and his borderline-insane mixture of tones.
03/27/08
It's awful. Awful. That's all. Keep walking. For the love of all that's holy. Keep. Walking.
03/21/08
For all its mawkish plot turns and indecipherable trippiness, this is not a boring movie. It's just wiggy. And schmaltzy. And Spielbergian. And, uh ... wait. I think I've got a Jujube in my teeth.
03/21/08
CJ7 is precisely the 80-something minutes of delirium and cheesy special-effects you'd expect from the man responsible for the chaos of Shaolin Soccer and the lunacy of Kung Fu Hustle.
03/21/08
Almost surrealistically bad...not only fails totally to delight but is even likely to creep you out.
03/19/08
You always want to like a critter from space comedy but sometimes you just can't. CJ7 is one of those films.
03/17/08
Significantly gentler than [Chow's] earlier films, but equally offbeat.
03/14/08
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