🎥 Movies of 2021, 68: The Miracle Fighters. The poster 100% summarizes this movie. There’s an evil sorcerer. There’s two other bickering sorcerers who learned from the same teacher (a tribute to Simon Yuen). There are butterflies. There’s a weird all-white kid that lives in an urn.
Super inventive and fun, The Miracle Fighters falls in to the broader genre of “Spiritual Comedy”. These had shown up a bit in the late 70s, but Sammo Hung’s Spooky Encounters (1980) really kicked off the craze that would last through most of the 1980s. Unlike most of those, though, The Miracle Fighters does not feature vampires. Instead it’s more like a Méliès film, a celebration of cinematic effects and oddities.
