CJ7 (2008)

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

As Good As It Gets

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

This is not as fun as other Chow's movies but is great to watch with kids. It is rather a movie about family-based film with not a lot of "fighting" scenes like "Shaolin soccer" or "Kungfu Hustle." It talks about a poor family with a father and a son. The father usually goes to a "trash alley" to collect things that he can recycle and use it. He then finds a toy for his son, which turns out to be CJ7 - an alien. The little boy in the movie acted pretty well. Chow was quite old when he starred in this movie so he did not include many "silly" scenes like his other movies. P.S.: if you like the young boy's acting, just to let you know that he is actually a girl. She dressed like a boy in the movie. She is now grown up to be a beautiful lady.

Great Movie. Creative, unpredictable, humorous.The kids love this movie. They watch it once a day.I like how it has encouragement to do good and school.Issues at school and all the groups at school.A MUST SEE movie.I won't say anymore.Just that you should watch it.This should be aired in the movies in the US.It's great!! I suggest it for any parents with kids and even parents.Underrated! If you can buy the DVD it has some good behind the scenes stuff and some big surprises.

Another Chow movie has intrigued me yet again. Though, a little different to his other known humour such as ,'Kung-fu Hustle' and 'Shaolin Soccer', this particular movie has portrayed more than just the random bursts of laughter.The storyline may be somewhat average but because it's aimed at a younger audience, it mostly doesn't matter. What's most important, are the contents that are being portrayed. There's an underlying message conveyed to the audience, not only just to the children but to the adults as well and that is, you should cherish the things you already have in life, most importantly your family. Which, in this case the film has portrayed very well to the point where I almost shed a few tears.

Years ago my cousin showed to me that Stephen Chow movie Shaolin Soccer, I quickly became a big fan (it was the first and until this day only movie that I own on UMD), truly a great film, both Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu are favourites of mine but even with that fact I never knew about the existence of this 2008 Stephen Chow movie, CJ7, and last weekend I found its R1 DVD and since it is from Chow I had to add it to my collection, glad I did it since CJ7 is simply another winner from Chow.This time we don't see Chow that much, here he is Ti, father of Dicky (Xu Jiao) who will be our dude. Basically CJ7 is a film for/about the family, we have the strong father and son union but certainly kids are kids then our little man will be mad as hell if his father can't buy for him the new toy that is the damn sensation between Dicky's school partners, and Dicky's school is not a public one actually, Ti works really hard just for his son and they do see hard times but Dicky has a great chance by going to that school yet the school is not a very pleasant place for Dicky and not because of the work and stuff but also and basically because of the bullies and his teacher (you will hate Dicky's teacher, no doubt about it). So we have this poor good fella in big school full of rich f**** stuff in CJ7 and certainly we have the father and son story, sort of The Kid (Charles Chaplin, 1921), and with Dicky we will see at one point the typical stuff since he will be not very nice with his father and he will not have a chance to say to his father that he was wrong, is going to be too late for that. The character of the title, CJ7, is actually at first time nameless, after all it was just something that Ti found in a junkyard but that something result to be actually something more than cool, something unique, something from outer space and not precisely an Ed Wood's plan, it is more like a dog, a puppy, weird puppy that will be just about the solution to all of Dicky's problem. Now Dicky will make a perfect test, will finally be allowed to attend the sports class, he has all, the bad ones will get what they deserve and the movie ends…not! Is actually the funniest part of the film, at least is my favourite part when Dicky finally awakes from a long and wonderful dream just to see that the puppy is actually real yet is more just like a normal dog, that defecates and stuff (!). At some points this is just crazy fun, great fun for sure but we also get some sad moments, kind of very sad moments actually, and no one but us will know how in the hell came the happy ending, how in the hell Dicky will actually have a chance to see again his father. CJ7 ends when the runtime marks less than 90 minutes, it is a fast-paced delight, Chow I'm your fan, big fan and with CJ7 I can only say that we have another winner movie from Chow. Enjoy! DVD: I had to watch "The Story of CJ7" to realize about the fact that who plays Dicky is actually not a boy but a girl! Anyway, some of the special features are the cast and crew commentary, "How to bully a bully" and some previews.