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Stephen Chow's follow-up to the epic Kung Fu Hustle, which I watched last time we were flying out to the Far East. It's a very odd film, a family movie about a father and son, dirt-poor in the amusingly exaggerated yet still sympathetic vein of a Charlie Bucket, who discover a little alien that looks like the lovechild of Chicken Little and Flubber. While it's nowhere near as amazing as Kung Fu Hustle, it has some truly amazing moments, and the fight between the big bully and the slightly overgrown 'little girl' was absolutely brilliance. There were some amusing references to Chow's other films, and I'm still reeling from learning that the film's main character, an archetypal and goofy little boy, was actually played by a girl!