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A Chinese Odyssey: Part 2 - Cinderella

Original title: Sai yau gei: Sin leui kei yun
  • 1995
  • 1h 38m
IMDb RATING
7.8/10
9.2K
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A Chinese Odyssey: Part 2 - Cinderella (1995)
ParodyActionAdventureComedyDramaFantasyRomance

The convoluted continuation of the adventures of the time-traveling, now-human Monkey King, who attempts to fulfill his divine destiny.The convoluted continuation of the adventures of the time-traveling, now-human Monkey King, who attempts to fulfill his divine destiny.The convoluted continuation of the adventures of the time-traveling, now-human Monkey King, who attempts to fulfill his divine destiny.

  • Director
    • Jeffrey Lau
  • Writers
    • Jeffrey Lau
    • Cheng'en Wu
  • Stars
    • Stephen Chow
    • Man-Tat Ng
    • Athena Chu
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.8/10
    9.2K
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    • Director
      • Jeffrey Lau
    • Writers
      • Jeffrey Lau
      • Cheng'en Wu
    • Stars
      • Stephen Chow
      • Man-Tat Ng
      • Athena Chu
    • 28User reviews
    • 13Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    • Awards
      • 4 wins & 3 nominations total

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    Stephen Chow
    Stephen Chow
    • Joker…
    Man-Tat Ng
    Man-Tat Ng
    • Pigsy
    Athena Chu
    Athena Chu
    • Zixia
    Ada Choi
    Ada Choi
    • Princess Iron Fan
    Kit Ying Lam
    Kit Ying Lam
    • Spider Woman
    Karen Mok
    Karen Mok
    • Pak Jing-Jing
    Kar-Ying Law
    Kar-Ying Law
    • Longevity Monk
    Jeffrey Lau
    Jeffrey Lau
    • The Grapes
    Shuming Lu
    • Bull King
    Kin-Yan Lee
    Li Po Lung
    • Monkey servant
    • Director
      • Jeffrey Lau
    • Writers
      • Jeffrey Lau
      • Cheng'en Wu
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    User reviews28

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    8Mara-Jade-Skywalker-23

    Masters of Slapstick Comedy

    Introduction:

    This two part movie, is easily deserving on a 10/10 rating. And if you twisted my arm enough into choosing which is better, I would say it's the second part. The comedy is funnier, and the story is able to rap up in a satisfying way.

    The Good:

    Stephen Chow is hilarious in his role as the Joker, or Monkey King. Given a lot of funny lines and moments to shine in his talent as a slapstick comedian. This is probably his best film. The musical score by Lowell Lo is spectacular, probably better than his work on the first film. The action is also entertaining and always funny to watch, and the movie as a whole is just a blast. The ending of the film was touching and satisfied me. Really making these two films worth the watch.

    The film has a real sense of adventure, it's a great action movie, it's a great comedy, it's a great romance, it's an awesome movie. And a movie I will always come back to.

    The Bad:

    The sets and costumes are not convincing in this film. And that technically qualifies as a flaw. However, I think the costumes and sets were terrible for the sake of adding to the film's comedy. So it qualifies as a criticism, but I don't fault the film.

    Conclusion:

    A Chinese Odyssey Part Two is an excellent second chapter to a great story. And a crash course in how to execute good slapstick comedy, and just comedy in general. The action is fun to watch, the comedy work, the romance is interesting, the characters are likable, and the movie is great and worth a 10/10 rating.
    10user-860-198597

    some philosophy about life

    Someone may think it is a love story while someone may think it is a comedy.But I think it is a sort of tragedy full of sarcasm.I think it is the best Chinese movie I've ever seen.It is totally worth watching.If you really give it a time to think about this movie,I promise you can gain a lot from it.It is way better than Journey to the West.

    Sometimes you will feel lonely even when you are successful.Sometimes you have to accept the fact that you cherished and loved is gone because they didn't belong to you any more.Sometimes when you finally got what you've always wanted but it doesn't matter now because the one you loved is gone,so what's the point of all these efforts?Sometimes in order to succeed,we have to give up something that may seemed unimportant in the first place but after we made it,you would be painful to find out that all things you once gave up has been always important,you just got blind and didn't notice that.

    If you really catch the meaning of this movie,well,congratulations. Cuz you are really grown-up .ENJOY IT!!!!It's full of joys and tears.
    7cherold

    entertaining but hard to follow

    After watching Part 1, I immediately had to see Part 2. Like the first movie, it is fast, crazy and funny. Unlike the first one, it's also somewhat touching, although reviews on this site that seem to find the last part an overwhelming emotional experience puzzle me.

    I did not like Part 2 as much as Part 1, simply because I couldn't for the life of me figure out what was going on. Part of this was certainly the bad subtitles I downloaded from the Internet. Part of this was that I am somewhat face blind, so that I had difficulty telling two of the principle women apart. But in spite of that, I think a lot of the issues are with the movie itself. Things just suddenly happen without introduction, and there's a body switching bit that seems just designed for confusing people.

    In spite of being frequently confused, though, I enjoyed it a great deal.
    9enriquepan

    It's not a movie but a legend

    When I first time watch this movie,I am a elementary school student still... ... If you thought it is very absurd,Cannot understand,That is the normal reaction. When I watched for the first time, similarly thought there are some plot which I did not understand (at that time I was ten years old).

    This a kind of non- conventional humor, if you wanna understood this story completely ,you should have know something about the "Xi You Ji",(It was awfully translated by someone to Mokey,Mokey King etc )if not, you'd better carefully see this movie, then, you will like it.

    In Zhong Guo, the 80's births people have the special sentiment to this movie, the classical dialogue were known very well by each who birth on 80's. Afterwards, appeared many movie which take "Xi You Ji" story as the background , or imitates the style of this movie directly , but they all are unable to surmount it.
    8kosmasp

    An Odyssey too

    More Chinese Odyssey - at least according to the english title of the movie. Recently and after 20 years of the first two another movie has come out that has been titled A Chinese Odyssey Part 3. I haven't seen that one yet, so I can only talk about this and a little bit about the very first one. Yes this is a sequel and it begins without any callback or flashback to the previous movie.

    Having said all that the movie starts off pretty "normal". Now that is for the first minute or so and then fighting ensues. After that it is a bit of romance and the first character callback from the first movie. He knows things that the woman he's talking to has no idea about. So "comedy" ensues. And a lot of physical pain and beating up (mostly to make audiences laugh, but there are also real fights with death and blood and violence and all).

    There is also a moment where the male individual (our main hero of the story I guess you could call him), retells events from the first movie ... by using random characters who play or rather replay characters from the first part - including someone watching who ... Oh boy I don't even know how to describe this. It's kind of epic as are the fights, if you don't mind people flying around and kicking others while doing so. Also Magic, Demons, Lovers, Body switch comedy and so much more ... it's insane. Will you like it? Depends on your taste, but it really never lets up and it never changes its tune

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    • Trivia
      Athena Chu (Zixia) and Stephen Chow (Joker) had actually been in a relationship since first meeting on Fight Back to School II (1992). However, it soon ended after 3 years, and this film was their last together.
    • Connections
      Followed by A Chinese Odyssey: Part Three (2016)
    • Soundtracks
      Love of a Lifetime
      Composed by Lowell Lo

      Lyrics by Shu-Chen Tang

      Performed by Lowell Lo

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    • Release date
      • February 4, 1995 (Hong Kong)
    • Countries of origin
      • Hong Kong
      • China
    • Language
      • Cantonese
    • Also known as
      • A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella
    • Production companies
      • Color Star Films
      • Xi'an Film Studio
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    • Gross worldwide
      • $25,967,935
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 38m(98 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono(original mix)
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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