The Real CJ7

Firstly, CJ7 is a new comedy from Stephen Chow, the indisputable King of Comedy in Hong Kong. Although CJ7 is certainly not on par with Stephen Chow’s last two movies, Shaolin Soccer and Kungfu Hustle, this movie kind of goes back to his roots of slapstick comedies. Furthermore, it has a very cute character in it which has the same name as the movie, CJ7. Here’s a short synopsis of the movie:

Ti [Stephen Chow] is a poor father who works all day at a construction site to make sure his son Dicky Chow [Xu Jian] can attend an elite private school. Ti can’t afford to buy Dicky any expensive toys and goes to the best place he knows to get new stuff for Dicky - the junk yard! While out “shopping” for a new toy for his son, Ti finds a mysterious orb and brings it home for Dicky to play with.

To his surprise and disbelief, the orb reveals itself to Dicky as a bizarre “pet” with extraordinary powers. Armed with his CJ7, Dicky seizes this chance to overcome his poor background and shabby clothes and impress his fellow schoolmates for the first time in his life.”

When I was in the cinema watching this movie, I heard a lot of people ‘awwing’ when at the cuteness of the little alien when it was on screen. Thus, I’m certain that a ‘real’ CJ7 is going to be high in demand. In fact, a ‘real’ soft toy of CJ7 is selling about USD17 and it is selling like hot cakes! As with most of the things that are in high demand and expensive, there are also fake CJ7 which are sold at much cheaper price.

As shown by the above pictures, these soft toy will make a great gift for the fairer sex. If I remember correctly, they are available in 7 inches and only in one colour scheme, that is, white and green [unless you’re buying a fake one]. Anyway, here are more pictures of CJ7 in real life…