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A gang of several girls who operate as pickpockets in a busy and popular tourist area of Hong Kong preys on men who are attracted by their beauty.

Depicting a gang of beautiful, sexy female pickpockets (led by Danish actress Birte Tove from Bamboo House of Dolls), Lu Chi has a great, fun idea in Mini-Skirt Gang (done at Shaw Brothers) but chooses not to utilize it. Structurally there’s nothing wrong with showing different scenarios, the different schemes the girls employ in order to achieve their goals and at the end of the day, in fine exploitation fashion, they undress and shower in slow-motion. All while a very voyeuristic camera catches in particular the hideout of the girls from a top angle. Oh there’s the subplot of the girls taking in two bumbling male thieves (one being cross-eyed To Siu-Ming) but after they’ve been expectedly humiliated for peeping, you’d expect the movie to kickstart a little bit of plot at least. Not counting the prostitute ring which a girl runs from, in fact it’s soon very clear the film has settled on the formula of lighthearted fun with sexy pickpockets. It’s fun initially, fun towards the end where some creative cartoon action kicks in (Birte Tove goes into Mulan territory, Peking Opera-style for her big fight) but in between we get tired of repetitive voyeurism and sexy pickpockets.

Lisatud 02.08.2011, 1 460 844 544b, theonlyh, AKA The Mini-Skirt Gang, AKA Fung guang dai bun chaat

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