This is sort-of a kung fu movie version of THE BRADY BUNCH. You see there's the Wu Tang family that has a bunch of girls and the Shaolin kids who are all male and the boys become really keen on joining the 2 groups together so they can finally have a mom in their lives. These parts are pretty silly comedy crap but there is a group of naughty threatening pirate-types looking to do some raping and pillaging that at least gives us a decent showdown at the end. There's a guy with nunchucks that look like they were made out of dinosaur bones, a dude with a spinning shield with blades on it, knives on the end of a rope used as a weapon and all your more standard swords and staffs stuff. Jet Li, who I was never a huge fan of, is fairly good in this. I think I generally prefer his earlier stuff to the more well-known big Hollywood crap that he's famous for.
Apparently the story goes that it was so hot during the filming of this that people passed out while doing their stunts which seems like some terrible child abuse, which I unfortunately feel like isn't all that unusual in Hong Kong cinema from these days.
AKA SHAOLIN TEMPLE 2 ( The first SHAOLIN TEMPLE also features Jet Li but I don't think this is really a direct sequel of any sort. There's also MARTIAL ARTS OF SHAOLIN with Li in '86 which is considered the 3rd movie in this very loosely related trilogy), SHAOLIN BOYS and SHAOLIN KIDS
