It isn't a bad movie. Don't expect to learn much about the religious/philosophical/ethical significance of the "Eight Immortals" or that it will follow any literature. The movie is suppose to be comedic and not taken seriously anyways. The fight with Lucifer in the end was disappointing though because they made it like he was a very powerful demon...and he was powerful when he was fighting against their human forms. But once they turned into immortals, it was like the demon was nothing. I felt they should have put a little more thought in the defeat of this all-powerful, dangerous demon other than "let's just blow him up."
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A stupid movie
evilnail12 December 2000
The story is based on the Taoist legendary figures: the Eight Immortals. The movie doesn't explain anything about Taoism, in stead, it borrows the figures and makes up a truly terrible story.
The story is basically cheap jokes glued together over the evil vs. evil plot. The acting is just awful. You can see how they are transformed but you don't see any real characters!!
It's so frustrating to see such a stupid movie to come out of HK. The HK movie industry has so much talents but somehow they just got wasted!!
The story is basically cheap jokes glued together over the evil vs. evil plot. The acting is just awful. You can see how they are transformed but you don't see any real characters!!
It's so frustrating to see such a stupid movie to come out of HK. The HK movie industry has so much talents but somehow they just got wasted!!
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