Preparing the altar:

While on an expedition, antique hunter/professor Chung Faat and his two assistants (Billy Lau, and the other guy) discover to their amazement not one, but three fully intact corpses-a man, a woman and a child-from the medieval period. Rubbing their hands in anticipatory glee at the gold vein they have just struck, they load the corpses into the van and drive home.

Lam Ching-Ying is a taoist priest. His cousin Yuen Biao is a reporter who has a girlfriend, Moon Lee.

Meanwhile the vampires are reanimated and after causing havoc at Chung Faat's base, escape into modern Hong Kong. The child vampire finds himself at Wu Fung's house, where after being mistaken for an Vietmanese asylum seeker by the kids becomes their playmate.

Burn the incence papers!:

Here, for me, is an example of a film that doesn't quite know what it wants to be. On the one hand, it's all very camp and goofy, and it wants to be a comedy. On the other hand, it also wants to address more serious concerns, such as asylum seekers in Vietnam and alienation. It's laudable that the scriptwriters (Barry Wong, along with Wu Ma and others) wanted to inject some social commentary into 'Mr Vampire II', but unfortunately they forgot to integrate the two sides properly. The end result is an uneven, unfocused and messy film that is frustrating to watch. And that's the major flaw.

Now, for the pluses. The kid vampire is adorable. The reaction he receives from the kids is cute to watch. Look how they dressed him up, in the sunglasses and hat. Awww.

Plus two. Lam Ching-Ying and a great sentence near the end of the film, where he mentions 'Close Encounters Of The Spooky Kind' and 'The Dead And The Deadly'. Very cool.

Plus three. The most amusing moment of the film for me was after a slowing powder is accidently released in the Professor's house during vampire vs humans battle, and everyone goes into s-l-o-w....m-o-t-i-o-n. It's hilarious.

Apart from that, this movie not very amusing, although it tries to make you laugh. I didn't find most of the intended comic scenes funny, because they were a little too lame and dumbed down. Really, a lot of it felt like it was aimed at the younger market, and assumed its audience would not be too bright.

Overall, by far the weakest in the series. 4/10