That's not to say that Mr. Vampire II doesn't hold interest because it clearly does. We initially follow an antique dealer (played by Chong Fat) who digs out a vampire family that has been buried in a cave for a century. Of course his dopey assistants (Billy Lau & Fung Lee) makes sure the vampires are awaken and let loose. The kid of the vampire family ends up with a living family where the children thinks they've got an illegal immigrant on their hands while a doctor and all round ghost buster (Lam Ching Ying of course) crosses paths with the parents and soon the mayhem is on. Tagging along is the boyfriend (Yuen Biao) of his daughter (Moon Lee) who now has to prove himself worthy under extreme circumstances...

It's an odd choice to have Lam Ching Ying appear as late as one third into the movie but truth of the matter is that a fair energy is maintained via Chung Fat in the lead who seems like a worthy follower in Lam's character footsteps even though his role is not that of the taoist priest. But a longing for Lam to enter eventually sets in during the annoying segment with the human kids befriending the vampire kid. When all finally sinks into the place, there seems to be an ever so slight lack of creative energy even though action set pieces such as the slow-motion fight in a room filled with sedative smoke is a creative feature. As for good vehicles for Lam, Yuen Biao and Moon Lee, you're better off looking elsewhere as neither is put to trademark use like they should. Hung and Lau should be applauded though for wanting to go different places with the franchise but they realized the experiment wasn't as good as they'd hoped so with Mr. Vampire III, much was back on track thankfully. Woo Fung, James Tien, Wu Ma and Stanley Fung also appear.