Robin-B-Hood (2006)
Director: Benny Chan; Writers: Benny Chan, Jackie Chan, Alan Yuen
With Jackie Chan, Louis Koo, Michael Hui, Gao Yuanyuan, Yuen Biao
Dragon Dynasty / Weinstein
Available Dec. 26, 2006. List Price $24.95
Chan, a star throughout Asia since the 1978 Drunken Master, has commuted between Hong Kong and Hollywood for the past decade, alternating Rush Hour and Shanghai action comedies with lower-budget Cantonese-language movies aimed at the home market. This one borrows from such American films as Little Miss Marker, Raising Arizona and 3 Men and a Baby: three low-level criminals (Chan, Koo and Hui) kidnap a rich couple's infant and, wouldn't you know, become the little one's loving and protective foster-dads. The movie, never released theatrically in the U.S., earned a respectable $20 million worldwide. Now Dragon Dynasty, the welcome Weinstein Company subsidiary devoted to Asian action films, gives it the full DVD treatment.
