Mr. Vampire 2

Rating:
Summary: OK Boy should be in a Mentos commercial
Review: 'Doo doo doo, doo-doo, do-Wah!' It doesn't matter what comes, fresh goes better in life, and Mentos is fresh and full of life. Nothing gets to you, staying fresh staying cool, with Mentos, fresh and full of life. Fresh goes better, Mentos freshness, fresh goes better with Mentos, fresh and full of life! Mentos, the freshmaker!

The first ten-fifteen minutes of this movie is very interesting, as a new group of bumbling idiots stumble onto the vampires in a cave and take them back home to study. Then there is a 25-30 minute interval that a child vampire escapes to the green house of a local family.

During that 30-minute sequence, the child vampire becomes friends with the kids of the household, and later the neighborhood children. Then you have the story of all the kids getting along despite their differences, and the song above starts playing (not really, but pretty close). I looked at my DVD player, and 40 minutes had passed with out seeing Lam Ching Ying, and I thought to myself, "What the hell am I watching?"

Then finally, 40 minutes into the movie, Lam Ching Ying and Yuen Biao to the rescue. Now their performance is no where near as good as their interactions in Prodigal Son, however, they do deliver an extremely under rated interaction in this movie. Their acting is superb, funny, and extremely fun to watch.

I must come right out and say, this Mr. Vampire is nowhere near as good as the first. Nevertheless, it is very watchable. If you loved the first one, go ahead and buy this one, but have less expectations. If you liked the first one, rent this one. I would not recommend buying this movie unless you absolutely loved the first one, as I did. The story and plot of this movie leaves little to be desired compared to the first, and I think there's even less action (martial arts wise), but I still liked the movie very much.

Grade: B


Rating:
Summary: The eternal Sifu Returns for another round.
Review: Again the eternal Sifu Lam Ching Ying Returns to use his taoist powers to supress a vampire infestation in our world . This time Lam (Sifu) fights the dark vampire family brought back to life by some idiotic cave explorers.The comedy element is high in this film as it is in the other Mr. Vampire saga Films.This time we have a little munchkin of a vampire boy that befriends and plays with some children that hide him in there closet.The parents also reawakend are searching the city for there child whos busy playing and spooking other kids from the neighborhood. Lam and his funny students of the arts have a hell of a time with the vampire parents that are wreaking hilarious havok on the locals and even are hopping across cartops at one point.Lam and crew work with all there taoist arts to comabet the vampire family yet are somewhat compassionate to the little vampire boy.More comedy antics in this 2nd installment in the Mr. Vampire series a must see and highly recommended.We also see more of the taoist magic and spells used to combat the vampyric chinese undead.

Rating:
Summary: Cute, not as good as the first, but still funny...
Review: This is the second DVD in the "Mr. Vampire" saga, staring this time a modern day larcenous Professor and his two college interns. In this installment, the professor unearths a century old tomb with the remains of a woman, a man, and a child. (If you've saw the first Mr. Vampire, you might recognize the magic spells attached to each corpses forehead as spells to prevent the dead from rising).

Of course the 'professor' being more intent on STEALING from the tomb, doesn't notice this. He takes the bodies back to the lab, and his assistant inadvertently remove the spells...Surprise, they revive. Although the professor manages to contain the adults, the child vampire escapes, causing many amusing hijinks.

While I liked Mr. Vampire 2, some elements I could have lived without. The one assistant who killed and ate things like frogs, and the innards of snakes (while they were still alive) for 'tonics', just grossed me out and seemed to have been added for shock value. Also, the 'cutsie' scenes with the child-vampire and the Chinese single-parent family just went on WAY too long. I mean, a little is okay 20 minutes is overkill.

Overall, though, quite amusing. A funny edition to the Mr. Vampire Saga

Rating:
Summary: Cute, not as good as the first, but still funny...
Review: This is the second DVD in the "Mr. Vampire" saga, staring this time a modern day larcenous Professor and his two college interns. In this installment, the professor unearths a century old tomb with the remains of a woman, a man, and a child. (If you've saw the first Mr. Vampire, you might recognize the magic spells attached to each corpses forehead as spells to prevent the dead from rising).

Of course the 'professor' being more intent on STEALING from the tomb, doesn't notice this. He takes the bodies back to the lab, and his assistant inadvertently remove the spells...Surprise, they revive. Although the professor manages to contain the adults, the child vampire escapes, causing many amusing hijinks.

While I liked Mr. Vampire 2, some elements I could have lived without. The one assistant who killed and ate things like frogs, and the innards of snakes (while they were still alive) for 'tonics', just grossed me out and seemed to have been added for shock value. Also, the 'cutsie' scenes with the child-vampire and the Chinese single-parent family just went on WAY too long. I mean, a little is okay 20 minutes is overkill.

Overall, though, quite amusing. A funny edition to the Mr. Vampire Saga