Mr. Vampire is apparently the first of the Chinese "hopping vampire" movies. If you were unaware of the hopping vampire genre, this may not mean much to you. These are based on Chinese Taoist legends where vampires ... hop ... and stuff. OK, I have no idea what these hopping vampires are about.
This movie features a Taoist priest - the guy with the salt-and-pepper mustache who usually runs the failing kung-fu school because he isn't all that good. He has two assistants, a goofy one and a handsome one. Can stereotypes be racist if they are made by Chinese for the consumption of Chinese? No? Good, so I can enjoy.
There's a lot of slapstick, some decent fights, and a lot of stuff that might make sense if I understood more about Taoist legends. Maybe not though.
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