The latest comedy from Stephen Chow, CJ7 is a fantasy tale featuring state of the art visual effects. A poor laborer father (Chow) and his young son's lives are turned upside down when a fascinating and strange new pet enters their world. Amid the resulting comic mayhem, they ultimately learn a poignant lesson about the true nature of family and the things money can't buy.
My comments:
For a Stephen Chow, one might expect a lot more and expect to see him more in CJ7 as he’s basically a minor character. The film focused more on his son (those who are still unaware, Xu Jiao is actually a girl) and his school life. Like Chow’s previous movies, it talks about some ‘nobodies’ possessing extraordinary skills or encountering extraordinary events. This time, it involves a very cute ET pet, which they call CJ7 (I have to repeat again that it’s very CUTE!). The first quarter of the movie is actually boring showing how poor Chow and his son are but once this CJ7 appears, it gets better.
One thing that is surprising, can you associate (sort of) tearjerker with Stephen Chow? I swear that I never cried for any Stephen Chow films but I did for CJ7 but it’s really for the pet CJ7. What that little thing did was OMG touching although I don’t think that would exist in real life.
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