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Hong Kong • 1988 • 96m •
   • Directed by: David Chung, Hark Tsui. • Starring: John Sham, Sally Yeh, Hark Tsui, Tony Chiu Wai Leung, Ching-Ying Lam, Dennis Chan, Teddy Chan, Kwok-Chi Chiu, Wing Cho, Kong Chow, Paul Chun, Yin Cheung Joh, To-Hoi Kong. • Music by: Romeo Díaz.  The Hero Gang is a nasty group of thugs terrorizing Hong Kong with their killer robots, Pioneers 1 and 2. While Pioneer 1 looks like an oridinary robot, Pioneer 2 has been modelled on Maria, the gang's #2 thug. When Pioneer 2 gets damaged during a mission to kill an outcast gang member, an inventor on the police force takes her and changes some of her programming. This new code, plus a few injuries to her logic center, start causing Pioneer 2 to develop her own personality.
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Who would ever design a robot with boobs? A large criminal operation known as The Hero Gang, thats who, and neither the Megaforce nor Chuck Norris got anything on these guys! They carry fancy high-tech weapons. They have a flying motorcycle with missiles and machine guns. And they have Pioneer 1, a truly awesome giant robot of heavy gunpower that can absorb hostile artillery in a micro-wave on the stomach! These Heroes got it all, perhaps with the exception of a pit-trap with a rancor at the bottom. And that robot with boobs? It's Pioneer 2, made to be turned into a much more obedient replica of the leaders mistress, both played by Sally Yeh!
This shiny robot femme has mad fighting skills, carry absurdly oversized missiles in her wrists and she can even sing! But she fortunately ends in the hands of three good guys, a scientist named Curly, a reporter named T.Q., and a drunk ex-gangster named Whisky (played by producer Tsui Hark). All three are completely utter goofballs but Curly manage to decode the robot to only do good deeds, and together they join forces against the Hero Gang!
So the three underdogs, two nerds and one deadbeat, manage to overthrow not only the gang of evil superheroes, but also the bullies in a bar, and their superiors who all are class jerks. It's kinda touching and endlessly cheerful in it's silliness. This is nowhere as sleazy as 'Robotrix' but definitely a lot better made. There is sweet robot punch- outs, a really cool vine-swinging chase through a forest, and some cruel pranks of drinking gasoline. A part involving a dog for dinner is even genuinely funny.
Review by blueberry_mustard_101 from the Internet Movie Database.
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