I enjoyed this movie. It's a fun romp. The special effects are not great. The magic crane and the giant green snake are just silly. However, the movie was well subtitled and I enjoyed the performances of both Joey Wong and Maggie Cheung as the two snake women. The movie did a good job in terms of capturing the way two snakes would move about if they suddenly took on human form.

The movie does change tone somewhat abruptly towards the end. Basically, if the idiot monk had learned his lesson after worngly putting the spider monk under the giant stone temple, he wouldn't have caused the destruction of his ashram and the entire village at the end of the movie, when he fights the two snake women, whom he himself had initially acknowledged as good (and who just wanted to marry and settle down). As he himself says "I have committed fault after virtue." Understatement of the year.

Overall, worth watching.