A poor construction worker, who struggles to keep his son in private school, mistakes an orb he finds in a junkjard for a toy which proves to be much, much more once the young boy starts to play with it.
Direction
Chow's live-action cartoon energy — nobody else directs poverty this joyfully.
Practical Effects
CJ7 puppet design: nightmare fuel that becomes adorable through sheer narrative force.
Acting
Xu Jiao's gender-flipped performance — a girl playing a boy, perfectly.
Director
Stephen Chow
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Stephen Chow spent $20 million on CGI for a movie about poverty — the irony wasn't lost on Hong Kong critics who called it 'CJ7: Commercial Junk 7.'
The title references China's 2003 manned space mission (Shenzhou 5), making this state-sanctioned sci-fi nationalism wrapped in a toy story.
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