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Monk Khenlun (Lam Chin-Ying) has brought up Little Buddha to the best
of his knowledge and has taught him in mystic arts, but when the boy is
still awfully young, baddie Khentse (Lau Shun) anhd the four Lamas track
Khenlun down and kill him. All on his own, the little boy tries to travel
to Hong Kong as stowaway obn a train, where he meets Tiger (Conan Lee), a
well-meaning bum who wants to go to Hong Kong to start a criminal career.
However, soon enough he decides to take care of the kid ...
Eventually they end up staying at the flat of bitchy gambler Ah Ngor
(Sheila Chan), who owes money to half the city and who wants to use the
boy to her own ends ... however, she's way too clumsy to persuade him to
help her.
From the grave, monk Khenlun has meanwhile sent Bencheuk (Cynthia
Rothrock) to take care of the boy and protect him from the four Lamas, but
ultimately, she proves to be no match for Khentse, who defeats her and
abducts the boy to Tibet.
Bencheuk follows Khentse to Tibet, and spontaneously, Tiger and Ah Ngor
decide to accompany her - it all culminates in a big fight involving both
martial arts and magic, at the end of which Khenlun appears in person and
defeats Khentse.
With good having triumphed over evil, Tiger decides to stay and look
after the boy, and Ah Ngor decides to stay as well, since half of hong
Kong is after her ...
Top-billed Cynthia Rothrock might not be to everyone's taste, she is
not much of an actress, she dresses atrociously and has an atrocious
1980's look to her, and the fight scenes in her movies are not always
particularly good (in this film they are though).
However, even if you don't like Cynthia Rothrock at all, you might like
this film: It's an over-the-top fantasy comedy in which Rothrock only
plays second fiddle and leaves most of the plot to Conan Lee and Sheila
Chan, who make the most of their roles as antagonistic partners (who of
course fall in love with each other in the end). True, not all their jokes
are top-rate, but at least the running gag with Sheila Chan falling out of
her window repeatedly is worth a big laugh. Also, the film is of course
trash, there is no doubt about it, but immensely likeable trash, at least
if you are as childish as I am ...
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