It is a uniquely dramatic experience that embodies the life of a poor Chinese worker who learns important lessons. It seems that this factor is changing his life completely after his son gets a strange new game.
Has the same moral and thematic contours of E.T. or an old-school Disney animated fable, but with the panache we've come to expect from the creator of Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle
I don't doubt [Stephen Chow's] talent. With this one, though, I doubt his story sense and his borderline-insane mixture of tones.
Cinema em Cena
May 06, 2009
Diluindo seu senso de humor anárquico e cartunesco no intuito de criar um filme família, Chow concebe apenas uma história formulaica, artificial em seu sentimentalismo barato e sem a menor graça.
Chicago Reader
March 28, 2008
Even with its flaws this comedy is more interesting kids' fare than most sanitized studio releases.
He knows he's the hundredth director to rip off E.T.: he's just going to do it better, and with jokes fit for a vintage Warner Brothers cartoon. [Blu-Ray]