Although this film is extremely trashy (no surprise for Wong Jing & Stephen Chow), it’s surprisingly pretty good in a way (the jokes were fresh back then). But that’s probably because Andy Lau’s presence helps keep the film in a reasonably sensible comedy flow, instead of turning stupid…not to say that ‘mo lai tou’ is absent from this.

For Andy Lau it’s a step in the wrong direction, for Stephen Chow it’s just the same old routine, but Wong Jing has come up with an interesting enough idea making a film about practical jokers. It just goes to show that sometimes Wong Jing can surpass his usual bad ideas and rip off films, and actually make something half descent...though his good films can still be counted on two hands in my opinion (this is not one of them though).

Probably one for Stephen Chow fans only, comedy fans in general would probably do better to miss this one. This is a long forgotten film anyway, and this’ll be the last time I ever see this one I think. Not sure now if this one is still available these days.

[2.5/5]