Basically patented after the dopey high school American comedy formula, the beginning is an unwarranted MV for the great lead Jimmy Lin, showing how great Jimmy Lin is. Even signs of being Taiwan's Tom Cruise of Cocktail fame are evident but when the actual story starts, director Chu's structure is very clear. Lin's Spinach character wants Vivian Hsu's Annie. Annie dates the school bully. Pearl (Hilary Tsui) helps Spinach who will come to realize during the last scene who he loves. Starting over at least twice with the high school comedy structure that begins with pranks at home and ends with family dinner, Chu is resting comfortably. Although he goes daring places for the designed entertainment that it is by creating a locker room sequence for the voluptuous Vivian Hsu (who began making Category III pictures the year after), the marginal delight Shaolin Popey is represented by a few key tangents. One is a variant of the Street Fighter scene in City Hunter and later our main characters take refuge in the Shaolin Temple. The seemingly real world is now part of the Wuxia universe, comedy is punctuated by cartoon sounds and the flick briefly turns into Home Alone by the end. It's easily digestible, thoroughly silly and a far cry from well-honed in the wirework department. But considering, Chu Yen-Ping doesn't embarrass himself as such. Compare with his army training flicks such as Forever Friends, starring an even more annoying Jimmy Lin, and you'll see the gigantic difference. Kingdom Yuen, Michael Lee and Paul Chun also appear.