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Release Date: Mar 07, 2008; Rated: PG; Length: 86 Minutes; Genres: Comedy, Sci-fi; With: Stephen Chow and Xu Jiao
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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
What could possibly have possessed Stephen Chow, the mad scientist of slapstick chopsocky who made Kung Fu Hustle (2004), to follow up that psychedelic pinwheel of a movie by entangling himself in CJ7, the gooey tale of a poor little Hong Kong schoolboy who befriends a fur ball from outer space? The cuddlebug in question may bear an abstract resemblance to E.T. (Chow's stated inspiration), but he's really closer to Gizmo in Gremlins crossed with a Chicken Little who got washed through the rinse cycle. His ''mischief'' is trivial and charmless, and so is the movie. D+
Posted Mar 05, 2008
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