| List of cuts/changes found in the HK version and the US cut by Dimension:
1. NAME CHANGES
- Ma Yau/Bok Min(J. Chan)-John Ma/Boomer
- Ba Ba-leih(M.Cheung)-Barbara
- Tong Sum(Nina Li)-Tammy
- Tai Zan/Tarzan(T.R. Kwan)-Tyson
- Ah Wai(Wong Lung Wei)-Will
2. US VERSION CONTAINS A NEW/ALTERNATE CREDITS SEQUENCE.
3. US VERSION IS RESCORED
HK version is scored by Phe Loung/Lowell Lo. US version is rescored by Michael Wandmacher with only portions of the original score remaining. As usual, most of the Cantopop songs in the film are omitted, trimmed, or altered(the "muzak" version of the 'Heroic Trio' theme in Dimension's version, for example) from the US version.
4. TRIMMED/CUT/ALTERED/RE-EDITED SCENES:
- The twins' father, Ma Saang(James Wong), proudly comments that big noses run in his family and his wife(Sylvia Chang)asks,"What if the twins were girls with big noses?"
- Ma Saang seems to know who Crazy Keung(Kirk Wong) is, if not socially. Ma Saang seems to not know who Keung is in the US cut.
- (Trimmed)The aftermath at the hospital after the violent conflict with Crazy Keung.
- (Shortened, US cut)Ma Yau yells as he directs the orchestra before Rocky(Jamie Luk) throws a chair at him.
- (Cut)Rocky asks Ma Yau(Rocky thinks he's speaking to Bok Min)to be his teacher after the mall incident.
- (Trimmed)The cafe scene.
- (Cut)Barbara pokes fun at opera and talks about her late father while in the car with Ma Yau(she assumes he's Bok Min).
- (Cut)The "witch doctor" scene in the hospital featuring Lau Kar Leung as a medical doctor(who punches the witch doctor into the wall[literally!] when he makes Boss Wing's condition worse).
- (Cut)Bok Min threatens a hotel manager with an incriminating photo.
- (Cut)Ma Yau(via cell phone) tells Bok Min that Crazy Keung's jailbreak is "messier than the Persian Gulf". A pan of Ma Yau's cell phone getting shot by a stray bullet is also cut.
- (Trimmed and cut)Barbara's imaginary concert.
- (Trimmed)Bok Min and Ma Yau argue while hiding from Tong Sum.
- (Cut)Tong Sum tries to look for the "mirror" while in the bathtub.
- (Cut)Bok Min pins Tong Sum underwater while Ma Yau tries to escape from the tub.
- (Altered)When Ma Yau(pretending to be Bok Min)asks Tai Zan to prove his identity, the dialouge is much more base.
- (Cut)Bok Min makes some positive comments regarding Tong Sum's buxom figure.
- (Cut)In the car testing factory fight, one of Keung's lackeys comments,"[He]can fly?" after Bok Min leaps over a car racing toward him.
- (Cut)At random moments in the car testing facility, Ma Yau and Bok Min order Tai Zan to "follow me"(Tai Zan has no idea that Bok Min has a twin brother); this results in confusion.
- (Trimmed)The wedding scene. The US cut trims out footage which results in some inconsistencies(Bok Min's excuse for getting "cold feet", for example).
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