Feisty Little Chilli (Chiao Pei) rounds up her childhood friends Fatty (Yang Wei-De), Bumpkin (Hsu Yu-Ta), Little Elf (Lin Tung-An), Hsiao-Mao (Chang Chai-Ming) and Two-Teeth (Wang Chi-Cheng) to greet their pal Rocky (Cheng Wei-Pai) when he flies home from the United States. When Rocky treats the kids to a slap-up meal at a fancy restaurant, Chilli stumbles onto a robbery-murder. A dying man entrusts Chilli with a valuable diamond asking her to pass it on to his partner, Helen Ching (Siu Hung-Mui). The only clues he gives to her identity are that she will be wearing a flower and has a mole on her upper thigh. As the kids bumble into one mess after another in search of the elusive woman, an evil one-eyed gangster (Choi Chung-Chau) has his clumsy but brutal thugs dog their every move. What they don't realize is these seemingly ordinary children are in fact the Seven Lucky Stars, a lethal bunch of super-skilled kung fu kids no crook would ever want to mess with.
As this is a sprog-centric film I didn't expect to like it, but the sprogs ( the kids) are amazing with their Kung-fu moves, as good as their adult counterparts. They are small and light so their movement would be vastly nimble. It's really impressive. They do get hurt, though, so it's not totally aimed for children. There's some violence, but it's mainly of the slapstick kind - it sort of a send-up/tribute of Sammy Hung's Lucky Stars, a touch of the red-hand gang, which I loved, Bugsy Malone and the Goonies. The plot is simple, but that doesn't make this any less enjoyable. It's great escapist fun. A 1980's jukebox delight 'Burning Heart' by Survivor features. The adult female fights really well.
