The grand tradition of mixing stupid slapstick comedy with horror elements in Hong Kong action movies continues with this sequel to a movie that I'm not exactly sure I've ever seen but that doesn't matter because this seems to be a story within itself. It all starts out like some episode of THREE'S COMPANY where a married man mishears his wife talking to various people, thinks she's cheating on him and then overreact because of it. There's also a silly crime drama thing going on with a group of female cops posing as prostitutes to catch a dealer of some sort. This film keeps on getting exceedingly dumb as it goes on. About 15 minutes in they shoehorn in a ghost story with kung fu Buddhist monks fighting ghosts. There's also a gangster character running around and a headless body and matching floating head creating havoc. In one of the weirdest scenes two guys have a contest to see who can piss the furthest and the loser gets castrated which some how will stop ghosts since they hate castrated penises and eunuchs. It's all very bizarre yet watchably dumb, at least for me. I think I just appreciate the idea of mixing a kung fu ghost movie with a slapstick comedy and crime story. The kitchen-sink method of Asian exploitation cinema. The average viewer's threshold for stupidity will most likely be much lower. AKA THUNDER COPS
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