Director: Gordon Chan

Stars: Stephen Chow, Ng Man-tat, Athena Chu, Cheung Man, Deannie Yip, Gabriel Wong.

Featuring: Michael Chow, Michael Dingo, Sarah Lee, Spencer Lam, Chung Chi-kwong, Tam Sin-hung, Sen Wong, Mark Haughton, Jonathan Isgar, Mark King, Indra Leech, John Wakefield, James Wong (cameo), Blackie Ko (cameo).

Believing he’s to be promoted by Madam Wong (Deannie Yip) into the Regional Crime Unit, Chow Sing-sing (Stephen Chow) is dismayed when bumbling pal Tat (Ng Man-tat) gets promoted instead - leaving Chow the embarrassment of being assigned to uniformed traffic control duties. Having had enough humiliation from his peers, Chow quits the force, deciding that he only way to be promoted is to go undercover again.

Posing as students, Chow finances himself and three ‘assistants’ - including his friend Turtle Wong (Gabriel Wong) - to enrol at a school which he believes is targeted by terrorists unless their terrorist leader is released. At school, Chow received unwanted attraction from young Sandy Lai (Athena Chu) and Turtle finds ‘love’ with her tom-boy sister Jacky (Sarah Lee). The crime unit also has men undercover in the school, who get agitated when it seems Chow makes bigger advances in the case than them.

The only real plot difference (from part one) is that Chow must undercover a terrorist plan instead of finding a missing gun, resulting in it being equally as entertaining; be it paying tribute to Hollywood blockbusters (check out the Terminator 2 rip off!) or providing plenty of martial arts and gunplay. The mid-section seems absent from any real action (unless you count Spencer Lam’s hilarious Judo class?), though this is more than made up for with a twenty minute school siege finale (utilising several Westerner-Hong Kong actors as terrorists).

As with the first Fight Back To School, action is again combined with laughter in unlikely settings to comedic effect, allowing Ng Man-tat and Chow to behave like a juvenile double act at every opportunity. Fans of the first film should enjoy this just as much.

Film Review By: Martin Skipper

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