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天師捉姦 (1990)
Ghostly Vixen


Reviewed by: Sydneyguy
Date: 04/02/2005
Summary: Average

You do get a few laughs and a peak at Amy Yips clevage but overall the movie was annoying. Jokes didn't work, Sandra Ngs character was overboard, there are better ghostly comedies out there!!

5/10


Reviewed by: Inner Strength
Date: 05/31/2002
Summary: Funny, but pointless

[Ghostly Vixen]

Now, although Ghostly Vixen is a bit all over the place, I have to admit that this really is funny, even though the majority of jokes were stupid, they worked. There isn’t really much of a story worth mentioning, but there are a lot of rip-off scenes from other films (famous for Wong Jing!) but are done in good faith, making it enjoyable.

Not really a good film, but if you want a good laugh, definitely watch it.

[2.5/5]


Reviewed by: danton
Date: 03/18/2002

I ignored this movie for a long time, because the English title and the casting of Amy Yip gave me the impression this was another one of those Cat III titles a la Chinese Erotic Ghost Story. Glad I finally decided to watch it, though, because it's actually a very decent and quite funny comedy!

The movie starts out in Thailand, and as everyone knows, ghosts and evil spirits run rampant in that part of the world. Some innocuous tourists from HK visit a Bangkok disco to pick up some girls, and one of them (who's still a virgin) gets lucky when he manages to score with Amy Yip. Or so he thinks - it turns out she's "Evil Girl", a villainous spirit who is on a quest to suck the virginal energy from 100 victims - and our poor tourist ends up being victim number 98. Then a wizard appears. Why he is dressed like a biker I can't figure out - but he does have a magical sword, and soon we have lots of supernatural fighting going on. Evil Girl flees the scene and ends up being trapped in a Red Chung mahjong tile, which of course gets shipped to Hong Kong.

After this highly enjoyable beginning, the movie changes tone and setting - now we're in HK, watching star Nat Chan trying desparately to lose his virginity. The poor guy gets an A for effort, but something always goes wrong. He also has a childhood fiancee he's not interested in at all. She's played by Sandra Ng, who is the butt of many jokes in this movie, playing an ugly spinster who wants to get married to Nat Chan and stops at nothing to make that happen, including using some spells that her father (who's a Taoist priest) provided her with. Some of these spells lead to some hilarious antics, and Nat Chan and Sandra Ng ham it upfor the middle part of the movie. In the final third, Amy Yip reappears, and after disposing of our biker wizard (victim number 99), she has her sights set on Nat Chan. Of course Sandra Ng fights for her man, and the final twenty minutes shift back to the kind of action familiar from Lam Ching Ying movies like the Mr Vampire series, with lots of supernatural action, spells and fighting. It's played mostly for laughs, in typical HK fashion, i.e. one of the main characters dies and the movie doesn't even blink! That's something you'd never ever see in a Hollywood movie.

In any case, this is a fun movie. Recommended.


Reviewed by: STSH
Date: 01/18/2000
Summary: Frantic and hilarious !

The only problem with this film is that the lovely Amy disappears for 45 minutes after the stunning opening scene. The large cast do a great job at keeping the loony pace going, but it falls flat sometimes, until Amy as Evil Girl escapes from the mahjong piece and starts wreaking havoc upon HK.

Despite this slight drawback, this film is still easily among the best of lunatic HK madcap farce.
To list all the hilarious scenes and routines would take too long, but my favourites include LuMy and Evil Girl's battle of the tongues, Evil Girl literally taking off her face, and Uncle Foon's daytime TV program advising housewives how to ward off evil spirits.
A definite must-see.

Reviewer Score: 9

Reviewed by: hkcinema
Date: 12/08/1999

Just basically hiliarous. Evil Girl broke 98 guys' viriginity(and killed them in the process.) A wizard chase her back and forth, and ends up being her 99th. This poor guy (well... uh... heh.) is her destinated 100th (well, used to be the 99th until this Wizard bothered her too much). Despite the sound of things, this is actually a comedy... reminds me of Once Bitten.

[Reviewed by Anonymous]