There are so many set-ups to potentially unwatchable kid flicks within this film and yet the story somehow carves a unique path around them. Example- My first impression of the main character, the poor yet adorable little Dickie, was that of an adorable slum-born prodigy. Turns out, he's a spoiled brat and he sucks inschool. What's worse, his poor father is working his ass off so little Dickie can go to private school. Yet the story revolves around this cute little kid like he's the second coming of Macaulay Culkin. Hard to swallow if it weren't for the fact that he, like the alien, are cute as a button
There is something so great about taking an overworked Hollywood premise and handing it over to someone like Chow. It's as though he is making a tired mass-appealing movie, yet the scenes he chooses to tell the story make me think it's all tongue-in-cheek.
This damn toy alien, CJ7 is going to catch like Pokemon wildfire wherever this film is shown. Yet, within the film he's slapped, drowned, hacksawed, strangled, drilled, probed, flattened, choked, trapped in a plastic bag and stabbed with a banana- and that's just what the kids do to him!
In any event, I almost left when the cute alien arrived in the movie, but I'm glad I stayed. The movie is just too weird to pass up. If Shaolin Soccer is Chow's Bad News Bears, CJ7 is his ET. Both very entertaining films crammed into their genres like a fat-footed woman trying to wear pumps- with hilarious consequences.
There is something so great about taking an overworked Hollywood premise and handing it over to someone like Chow. It's as though he is making a tired mass-appealing movie, yet the scenes he chooses to tell the story make me think it's all tongue-in-cheek.
This damn toy alien, CJ7 is going to catch like Pokemon wildfire wherever this film is shown. Yet, within the film he's slapped, drowned, hacksawed, strangled, drilled, probed, flattened, choked, trapped in a plastic bag and stabbed with a banana- and that's just what the kids do to him!
In any event, I almost left when the cute alien arrived in the movie, but I'm glad I stayed. The movie is just too weird to pass up. If Shaolin Soccer is Chow's Bad News Bears, CJ7 is his ET. Both very entertaining films crammed into their genres like a fat-footed woman trying to wear pumps- with hilarious consequences.