Chi Chung Lam, Jiao Xu, Kitty Zhang
Ti is a poor father who works all day, everyday at a construction site to make sure his son Dicky Chow can attend an elite private school. Despite his father's good intentions to give his son the oppo...( read more
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DVD Release Date: August 12, 2008
Stats: 2,308 reviews
Chow: I have a toy that's way better than CJ1. Do you wanna see it?
A departure from the more martial arts centered subject matter of the Chow's previous two movies, this is a family movie, harking back to films like E.T.
Here, a little boy, Dicky played by Jiao Xu, lives with ...( read more)
"Are you from outer space? Have you come to invade Earth? I think you might be an alien toy dog."
There's an almost unanimous assessment among most Western viewers and critics that Stephen Chow's CJ7 is substantially inferior to his last two successes, Shaolin S...( read more)
This is a kids movie! CJ7 will undeniably push Chow's name on more foreign fronts. The rest of us, especially the older ones, will be left to rue the good old days when Stephen Chow and Ng Man Tat were still talking to each other.
It's nice to see Stephen Chow wade in untested waters. The result of his experiment was a children's flick that was pretty corny, pretty preachy, but had enough chuckles and a cute enough protagonist/MacGuffin to delight even pompous, hard-to-entertain dicks like myself.
But to ...( read more)
The best kids movie Ive seen in awhile & a great movie for people of all ages
a bad bad movie....
really disappointed with this film.... i think will great because in this film Stephen Chow was played..... but honestly so bad film...
a little bit funny but the story didn't like it so much and doesn't have a special/great message.... this film for the kids...( read more)
Wasnt impressed with the synopsis. I also giggled when I saw the main character's name is Dicky Chow. Yes, my mind is in the gutter.
For all its mawkish plot turns and indecipherable trippiness, this is not a boring movie. It's just wiggy. And schmaltzy. And Spielbergian. And, uh ... wait. I think I've got a Jujube in my teeth. full review
If most Americans weren't so adverse to spending time with any film which has subtitles, Stephen Chow's "CJ7" just might have had a chance to become a perennial family favorite. full review
Chow's thesis is more profound than There Will Be Blood's, and it's expressed through a more sophisticated narrative. full review
i really like da film it makes me cry.i like da little boy so cuteeeeeeeeeeeee.
it was really funny, especially the Mission Imposibble Parody...!! i dont really care about the drama things.. but overall the film is very good..nice
Yeh..nice movie but i expected more from Stephen Chow !!
I'm glad that i met him in Sg !!
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