ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Mischa Redfern I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Leofwine_draca MY YOUNG AUNTIE offers something a little different to the usual Shaw Brothers film. This one goes down the comedy musical route and it's something of an overlong piece at two hours, but it still manages to pack in all of the fight action that you expect from Shaw; it's simply that the rest of the film is unlike the majority of the studio's action output.The main thrust of the story concerns the lovely Kara Hui and the unusual situation in which she finds herself: married to an elderly chap who dies, she is now the senior woman of the family, the titular character, to whom others must defer to despite her youth and beauty. Thus this is a fish-out-of-water comedy, with a lot of slapstick and knockabout humour arising from Hui's relationship with the bratty youth played by Hsiao Hou.Hou doesn't often get the chance to shine in the films but he makes a big impact here, and is funny and a great fighter to boot. Presiding over things (he wrote and directed, as well as co-starring) is Liu Chia-Liang with a strong role that dominates the action at the climax. In support are Wang Lung Wei playing his usual stock mega-villain, Gordon Liu in an amusing cameo as a westernised Chinese, and Yuen Tak, one of the least known of the famous 'Seven Yuens' which included Jackie Chan and Yuen Biao. The musical scenes are surprisingly a lot of fun and the comedy works well too. The highlight is undoubtedly the sight of seeing Hui kung fu-fighting in a dress that shows off her lovely figure; she's a real star in this one.

andressolf I am a Shaw Brothers fan, but they made some standout great movies, and some crappy waste of time movies. I had to force myself to log on to IMDb after watching this garbage trash of a film just to not make the mistake of watching it again by accident. If I remember the title of this movie 10 years from now it would only be because of how bad it is.Challenge of the Masters is another one I remember but being a waste of time.My favorite SB movies so far are:Mad Monkey Kung-Fu Return to the 36th Chamber Clan of the White Lotus Legendary Weapons of China Heroes of the East Executioners from ShaolinAny one of those movies if you have not seen them already is worth watching over this one because they have more substance and better fight scenes. This one movie is purely about fighting (as are some other SB films I don't like- and the fighting is unrealistic and has dislikable choreographed fights)

phillip-58 This is one of the great modern kung fu films. A lot of the reviews seem to miss the point that the comedy is based on a quite subtle at times (at other times right in your face) contrast between old and new China. Kara Hui for instance is called a country bumpkin and gets into trouble whenever she tries to adapt to the new but in the end to save her families honour dresses as an old fashioned heroine in contrast to the modern military style of Hsiao Ho. Gordon Liu seems to have played his part for laughs playing off his serious, monk persona with silly wigs and a guitar. The end fight is simply fantastic and ends in a defeat for Johnny Wang rather than death. Kwan Yung Moon should be mentioned for his great playing of a thug with 'invincible armour' - simply terrific. And Kara Hui does some magnificent acting and fighting. A great film.

winner55 Some martial-arts purists think that comedy was the worst thing that could have happened to the old-school kung-fu flick; and it is true that the introduction of comedy into the genre signaled the end of the "chop-socky" period in Hong Kong film. But the fact is, one can only carry-on a primarily physical exhibition of prowess for just so long, then everyone gets bored with it. And that's really why the chop-socky died and how the Hong Kong "New Wave" action film was born: the producers, the actors, the directors all just got bored with hitting people for ninety-minutes straight.Given that, and given the fact that Liu Chia Liang is a professional director with a considerable list of films in his resume, this film has to be seen as something other than just another kung-fu comedy. Rather, it is a comic film within the martial-arts genre, and in fact one of the best ever made.What Liu has done with this film is really a pleasant surprise: he has taken a martial-arts plot and re-constructed it along the lines of a Hollywood-style musical! Complete with episodes of singing and dancing! It was around the time of the making of this film that some film-makers and film fans began to recognize that the cinematic performance of martial-arts (really derived from the acrobatics of the Chinese opera) has more in common with dance than with fighting. (I will continue to point out this connection until most Americans realize what they are actually supposed to look for when watching a martial arts film - well-choreographed body movements, using the plot of an action film as an excuse for their performance.) At any rate, quite clearly Liu Chia Liang made this connection and decided he would explore it close to its limits.The result is an incredibly charming entertainment, filled with marvelously human characters attempting miraculous kung-fu (and tripping over their own shoelaces as often as not when they do so). and the film being set at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, allows Liu the opportunity to explore the nature of the Westernization and Modernization of China that contributed so greatly to the making of the China we know today. So the film has considerable historical import as well.Also, fans of Stephen Chow's recent Kung Fu Hustle should really watch this movie carefully, as Chow clearly learned from it before the making of his own film.A very amusing, well-made film. Oh, yes, and the kung fu in it is really, really good.Purists won't admit it, but this is probably director Liu's best film.