Whitech It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Bergorks If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

dafrosts The fight scenes are often vicious to the point of Grotesque. There are children in overabundance in this movie, but it is NOT, NOT a kid's movie. The Nine Devils want to spring their boss from prison and rob a Gold train. Unfortunately, a village of poor people with a high population of teenagers and children, stands in their way. So, what's a group of thugs to do, but kill everyone in the village and burn it to the ground. Luckily, the teens and kids are on the outskirts of town watching one teen try to use his Kung Fu to take down a cow. Yup, a cow. When they sees the smoke from the village, they go to investigate.I cannot take the Nine Devils seriously in the costumes and hairstyles they have. There's a Jin-ish Goon who has a head as a hard as a brick and performs a head butt that has to be rewound and watched at least twice to verify you saw what you saw. Another is wearing pigtails while carrying an oversized Chupa Chup. A third resembles a 1980's WWE Tag Team partner. A Caveman is carrying a stick reminiscent of Jeffrey Dean Morgan's TWD Barbed Wire Baseball Bat. A fourth has Armored sleeves with Kabuki Mask shoulders and Leather studded mittens. A fifth, I kid you not,is running around in pink striped jammies. Yeah, I said Pink striped Jammies. The only "Normal" looking one is wearing an eye patch and a jumper resembling those seen at martial arts competitions.The kids are chased into the woods by two of the Nine Devils, where a Shaolin Abbott and his pupil intervene. Another fight scene occurs where the Abbott, in between "Buddha be Blessed" announcements, kicks some ass and sends the Devils fleeing. I love how the Shaolin kick butt then say "Buddha Be Blessed/Praised". The Abbott and his pupil take the kids further into the hills for protection.The Nine Devils move on to break their boss "Golden Tiger" out of the prison transport coming toward the village. I would never want these prison guards watching any prisoner. They are too easily beaten. Golden Tiger busts out of the cage like he's in a wet paper bag. Seriously, if it was that easy for him to break out, why didn't he do it sooner? The guards were easy to subdue.The Abbott has a friend from Japan coming to meet him. They are going to trade techniques to make both of their Kung Fu styles stronger. The man has brought his two sons with him to teach them about other cultures. Unfortunately, since the Abbott has taken the village kids into the hills, he has to send someone to get his friend. The Japanese encounter the Nine Devils and only the boys survive. They become part of the group protected by the Abbott.The style of Kung Fu the Abbott decides the Teens and children need to learn is Not Called Chastity Kung Fu. That wording no doubt comes from whomever misunderstood the original dialogue during remarketing for the English language countries. The style the adolescents learn is a combo Gymnastics-Kung Fu that would make any Chinese Circus or Cirque Du Soleil proud.The Abbott suddenly announces he's ill and, of course, dying, which leaves training the adolescents to the younger priest, who's very leery about the prospects. When the youngest Japanese boy becomes ill, the Senior Teen and the boy's brother venture back into town to get herbs for healing. They encounter the Nine Devils and Golden Dragon. The Japanese Teen escapes while the Senior Teen remains behind to ensure his escape. The Senior Teen is used to bring the Abbott out of hiding. It works, however, Golden Tiger and his Crue have to work as a unit to kill him.The Adolescents and their new Teacher work harder to become a unit to destroy Golden Dragon and the Nine Devils. The last twenty-five minutes of the film is devoted to eliminating the Devils and their boss one by one. Pajama Man, Jin, Golden Tiger and another Devil are involved in one on one matches, while the others each encounter the Adolescents working as teams. The fights are a tad gruesome as normal matches go. The group fights reminded me of Children of the Corn chasing Adults through the corn fields.The final battle starts with Golden Tiger taking on the Senior Teen. It soon becomes a Battle Royale, as the other Adolescents and their Teacher join him when they finish their fights. There's a moment of singing, which is a tad creepy and again, Children of the Cornesque. Golden Tiger issues that annoying maniacal laughter the bad guys always use. He doesn't laugh for long.The conclusion is the Adolescents kneeling outside the Shaolin Temple awaiting a response from the Main Abbott. Their Teacher appears and announces none of them will be accepted as Priests or Nuns as someone needs to go back to the village and rebuild. The two eldest male teens are instructed to marry the two eldest female teens to continue the population of the village.Hmm, an entire town run only by teens and little kids. No Adult supervision whatsoever. What could possibly go wrong? I would have given it a higher number but the fights were far too gruesome and the Nine Devils were simply too comical to be taken seriously.

phillip-58 I think some reviewers have misunderstood this film. Robert Tai made some of the best kung fu films ever made including BRAVE ARCHER, CHINATOWN KID, MASTER OF THE FLYING GUILLOTINE etc. Although the editing and colour saturation on my Magnificent Dragons cinema collection edition leaves something to be desired (let alone the dubbed voices) this is a good film. Fighting kids is a Chinese tradition and the ones in this film are simply amazing, as are the villains who are dressed in rather amazing costumes (and in one case hair style) and fight well. Both the training scenes and the individual fights at the end are exceptional. Its good (and rather unusual) to see the Japanese and Chinese fighters co-operating and a word for the original music which I really enjoyed. It is bloody and unrealistic - but when were kung fu films strong on emotional plotting. Alexander Lo doesn't really shine in this though he does what is needed - and the fight with the cow at the beginning was different. I've never seen Hilda Liu Hao Yi before but she is pretty and had some good moves (and costume changes). But the stars of this show are the kids. I wonder if they came from an opera school ? I loved the villain with the white eye patch and green cape and another with a wrestling style dressed in gold lame and a belt straight out of WWF. Worth watching.

Space_Mafune After their village is destroyed by an evil gang of murderous bandits named the Nine Devils, a group of around thirty children from the ages of 5 to 18 years old flee into the woods with the Nine Devils in hot pursuit. Fortunately the kids are found by a pair of Shaolin monks who see it as their duty to protect them but noting the numbers and odds are against them, the monks decide they better train the youngsters in the art of Shaolin Kung Fu so they will be able to defend themselves if need be. Once their training is complete though, the kids decide to seek a measure of revenge...While this movie may have some child-like moments of humor, it's really not suitable for kids at all. Its violence is brutal and the Nine Devils really don't hold back when battling with the youngsters, who are simply amazing given the amount of stunt work they do and the considerable physical abuse and punishment their roles demand. Also the resulting brutality when the kids take the fight to the Nine Devils gang in the end is not always easy to watch and frequently disturbs as it's little kids often dishing out said bloody vengeance. Certainly not your usual Kung Fu film and surprisingly entertaining and interesting in that respect if one can get past this one's sometimes shocking content.

bbriggs-3 I rented this movie because I thought that since the wu tang clan recommended it that it would be good. I was very wrong. Shaolin Chastity Kung Fu turns out to be an INCREDIBLY cheesy children's movie with a few good fight scenes, a lot of annoying characters and some shamefully misplaced scenes of brutal violence! The story is about a bunch of kids whose village is destroyed by a gang of villains and then the children meet some shaolin monks who protect the kids and teach them kung fu so they can defend themselves from the villains. The plot is somewhat original for a kung fu film and the children (who age from about 8 to 20) have some impressive acrobatic skills. Another thing this movie has going for it is that it has a refreshingly good natured feel to it. The monks teach the children to be good and tolerant and accept people of different cultures. there's even some main characters who are Japanese and they are portrayed as honorable people! If you watch a lot of Chinese kung fu films you know how rare this is! Even though i like the above mentioned aspects of the movie, overall it's just way too cheesy for my taste. I almost want to recommend this movie for family viewing but unfortunately even though 95 percent of the movie is a harmless child oriented action comedy there's a bunch of scenes filled with R rated violence. There's a part where a guy gets cut in half, a scene where a monk has his head crushed with a giant rock, a scene where two of the older kids crush a man's head with their bare hands with blood SPRAYING out of his head!, there's even a disturbing scene where a bunch of laughing nine year olds beat a man to a bloody death with bamboo sticks!! What the hell were they thinking? Anyway to end on a happy note the director of this film along with the fabulous Alexander Lou went on to direct one of my favorite ninja movies of all time: MAFIA VS. NINJA!!! If you were disappointed with this one Mafia vs. Ninja will totally cheer you up!