Rating: NR
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 06/17/2003
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: Cantonese/Mandarin
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 95 min
Distributor/Studio: Tai Seng
Ricky Lau continues his profitable
Mr. Vampire series with this outing about
Uncle Ming (
Richard Ng), a crook posing as a Taoist priest who tricks the gullible into thinking that he has vanquished malevolent spirits. His con is aided in part by a pair of affable ghosts named
Ta Pao (
Lui Fong) and
Hsi Pao. Meanwhile, a band of horse thieves is running rampant in the area. Their leader lures
Ta Pao away from
Ming, turning the docile spirit into a raging force, which gives the thieves a diversion to rescue a few of their captured brethren. A local kung-fu master (
Lam Ching-ying) manages to not only deal with the enraged ghost, but also to kill off the bloodthirsty bandits. Unfortunately, the bandits return an unruly gaggle of spirits leading to more high-kicking kung-fu sequences. Rotund martial arts star
Sammo Hung also appears.
~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide