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* BadassCrew: One slapped together in the last moment, after Bin-bin gets kidnapped together with the crystal by Karov and his mooks. Consisting of RedBaron Andy, ActionGirl Cindy, ActionMom Mei-mei, Cindy's HypercompetentSidekick Max... and FatComicRelief [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Snooker]].
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* BadassCrew: One slapped together in the last moment, after Bin-bin gets kidnapped together with the crystal by Karov and his mooks. Consisting of RedBaron Andy, ActionGirl Cindy, ActionMom Mei-mei, Cindy's HypercompetentSidekick Max... and FatComicRelief [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Snooker]].Snooker.
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* WhatTheFuAreYouDoing: During the warehouse fight Snooker tries using a pair of chucks on enemy mooks, but he spends most of the fight [[WimpFight flailing the chucks around uselessly]] while making plenty of noises trying to intimidate mooks. He does ''accidentally'' knock out a mook sneaking up behind him using said chucks though.
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* DeathBirthJuxtaposition: [[spoiler: The crystal disappears, to the anguish of Bin-bin... Shortly after, a "baby jade" appears, to Bin-bin's joy, ending the movie.]]
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* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: [[spoiler: The crystal disappears, to the anguish of Bin-bin... Shortly after, a "baby jade" appears, to Bin-bin's joy, ending the movie.]]
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* DeathBirthJuxtaposition: [[spoiler: The crystal disappears, to the anguish of Bin-bin... Shortly after, a "baby jade" appears, to Bin-bin's joy, ending the movie.]]
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[[SincerityMode YES, I said "ice bullets"]].
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* FightingWithChucks: Subverted; during the warehouse fight scene Snooker uses a pair of chucks, but he spends most of the fight [[WimpFight flailing the chucks around uselessly]] while making plenty of noises trying to intimidate mooks. He does ''accidentally'' knock out a mook sneaking up behind him using said chucks though.
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** Case in point: When a bunch of mooks infiltrates Bin-bin's house where Andy and Snooker are staying in, Snooker happens to be coming out of the toilet holding a toilet plunger before bumping into a KnifeNut mercenary. Said mercenary intimidates Snooker by [[LickingTheBlade licking his knife]]; Snooker responds by licking ''the plunger''.
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** Case in point: When a bunch of mooks infiltrates Bin-bin's house where Andy and Snooker are staying in, Snooker happens to be coming out of the toilet holding a toilet plunger before bumping into a KnifeNut mercenary. Said mercenary intimidates Snooker by [[LickingTheBlade licking his knife]]; Snooker responds by licking ''the plunger''.
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* AncientAstronauts: The Greek ruins where the crystal is discovered turns out to be a portal which allows it to teleport back to its home planet, built by some ancient alien race (possibly affiliated with said crystal) several millenia ago.
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* AncientAstronauts: The Greek ruins where the crystal is discovered turns out to be a portal which allows it to teleport back to its home planet, built by some ancient alien race (possibly affiliated with said crystal) several millenia millennia ago.
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* WeHaveToGetTheBulletOut: A variant; Lo is able to survive an alleged assasination, because he gets shot in his head with... an ''ice'' bullet. He recovers and regains consciousness after the bullet melts.
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* WeHaveToGetTheBulletOut: A variant; Lo is able to survive an alleged assasination, assassination, because he gets shot in his head with... an ''ice'' bullet. He recovers and regains consciousness after the bullet melts.
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* FightingWithChucks: Subverted; during the warehouse fight scene Snooker uses a pair of chucks, but he spends most of the fight [[WimpFight flailing the chucks around uselessly]] while making plenty of noises trying to intimidate mooks. He does ''accidentally'' knock out a mook sneaking up behind him using sauid chucks though.
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* FightingWithChucks: Subverted; during the warehouse fight scene Snooker uses a pair of chucks, but he spends most of the fight [[WimpFight flailing the chucks around uselessly]] while making plenty of noises trying to intimidate mooks. He does ''accidentally'' knock out a mook sneaking up behind him using sauid said chucks though.
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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Karov]] repeatedly antagonizes the main characters for the crystal, trying to harness the crystal's powers for his own gains. His eventual fate has him finally grabbing hold of the crystal, just as it's teleporting itself back to Venus, taking Karov together with him.
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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Karov]] repeatedly antagonizes the main characters for the crystal, trying to harness the crystal's powers for his own gains. His eventual fate has him finally grabbing hold of the crystal, just as it's teleporting itself back to Venus, [[spoiler: taking Karov together with him.it]].
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''The Magic Crystal'' is a 1986 action movie directed by Hong Kong schlockmeister Wong Jing, based on [[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial E.T.]] and the ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' movies, starring Creator/AndyLau, Creator/CynthiaRothrock, Max Mok and Richard Norton.
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''The Magic Crystal'' is a 1986 action movie directed by Hong Kong schlockmeister Wong Jing, based on [[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial E.T.]] and the ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' movies, starring Creator/AndyLau, Creator/CynthiaRothrock, Max Mok Creator/MaxMok and Richard Norton.
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* TisOnlyABulletInTheBrain: Spoofed. The bullet that lodges into Andy's brain is made of ice, which knocks him out harmlessly. He recovers as soon as the ice melts. [[FlatWhat What]].
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* EmeraldPower: The titular crystal glows a greenish-blue tint when it communicates with humans.
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* SatellieCharacter: Ultimately, Max, the sidekick of Cindy, is this, since all his scenes are him tagging along behind Cindy, occasionally helping her to fight mooks, and he doesn't get as much development as the other characters (despite being played by HOng Kong celebrity Max Mok).
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* SatellieCharacter: SatelliteCharacter: Ultimately, Max, the sidekick of Cindy, is this, since all his scenes are him tagging along behind Cindy, occasionally helping her to fight mooks, and he doesn't get as much development as the other characters (despite being played by HOng Hong Kong celebrity Max Mok).
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* DisappearsIntoLight: [[spoiler: The titular crystal vanishes after teleporting itself back to its home planet on Venus. And since Karov happens to be holding said crystal, he vanished in the same way as well, although whether he died outright or ends up suffering a FateWorseThanDeath isn't made clear]].
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* AbnormalAmmo: The scene where the Interpol had to break Andy Lo out of prison involves shooting Lo in the head with [[MakesAsMuchSenseInContect ''ice'' bullets]].
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''The Magic Crystal'' is a 1986 action movie directed by Hong Kong schlockmeister Wong Jing, based on [[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial E.T.]] and the ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' movies, starring Creator/AndyLau, Creator/CynthiaRothrock, Max Mok and Richard Norton.
Andy Lau plays Andy Lo "The Eagle", a mercenary and secret agent who got his hands on a piece of Venusian crystal. Said crystal somehow ends up in the possession of Andy's nephew, Bin-bin, and turns out to be a sentient chunk of rock with psychic abilities, telepathy, and mind-manipulation powers. In a sub-plot shamelessly lifted from E.T., Bin-bin decides to help said Venusian crystal return to its home, which can only be accessed through an ancient spaceship located in some Greek ruins, but their mission is made complicated when ruthless KGB operative Karov (Norton) abducts Bin-bin with the crystal, intending to use the crystal's powers for himself. It's up to Andy and his partners, Interpol agent Cindy (Rothrock) and Max (Max Mok) to retrieve the crystal at all costs.
For a kid's movie, there are plenty of fight scenes, stabbings, FamilyUnfriendlyViolence, assassinations performed via ice bullets, and loads and loads of action... not that it's a bad thing. It overlaps somewhere between catering to an indecisive demographic and just simply enjoyable enough to be so-bad-it's-good. But whatever it strives for, the movie certainly entertains.
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* AbnormalAmmo: The scene where the Interpol had to break Andy Lo out of prison involves shooting Lo in the head with [[MakesAsMuchSenseInContect ''ice'' bullets]].
* ActionGirl: Cindy Morgan, the ass-kicking Interpol Agent portrayed by Cynthia Rothrock, as well as Bin-bin's ActionMom Mei-mei.
* AncientAstronauts: The Greek ruins where the crystal is discovered turns out to be a portal which allows it to teleport back to its home planet, built by some ancient alien race (possibly affiliated with said crystal) several millenia ago.
* AnimateInanimateObject: The titular crystal, which can communicate with Bin-bin and other human characters via {{Telepathy}}.
* BadassCrew: One slapped together in the last moment, after Bin-bin gets kidnapped together with the crystal by Karov and his mooks. Consisting of RedBaron Andy, ActionGirl Cindy, ActionMom Mei-mei, Cindy's HypercompetentSidekick Max... and FatComicRelief [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Snooker]].
* BeardOfEvil: Karov the BigBad has an impressive one that covers his chin, sideburns and connects to his bushy moustache.
* ABoyAndHisX: A Boy and his Sentient, Talking Venusian Crystal with Psychic Powers.
* BoyishShortHair: On both Cindy and Mei-mei.
* ChaseFight: A rather lengthy and exciting one happens in the streets of Greece, between Andy and Cindy, being pursued by mooks.
* CoolUncle: Andy Lo to Bin-bin. Since he's played by the awesome Andy Lau, that's a given, but how many kids have uncles who turns out to be government agents and killing machines, who can bring their nephews to Greece for a vacation?
* CoversAlwaysLie: See the above poster? The titular crystal in the movie is ''green'', instead of blue.
* DestinationDefenestration: Inverted with Andy's first action scene, when he crashes into the meeting of a mob boss by throwing himself through a window and knocking out a surprised mook.
* DirtyCommunists: Karov, the BigBad of the movie, turns out to be a KGB agent seeking the power of the titular crystal for his own purposes.
* FeetFirstIntroduction: Used in the scene when Karov shows up near some Greek ruins. His boot filling up half the screen as the camera pans on what appears to be the Parthenon is the first thing the audience sees.
* FightingWithChucks: Subverted; during the warehouse fight scene Snooker uses a pair of chucks, but he spends most of the fight [[WimpFight flailing the chucks around uselessly]] while making plenty of noises trying to intimidate mooks. He does ''accidentally'' knock out a mook sneaking up behind him using sauid chucks though.
* ForkliftFu: During the warehouse fight, two mooks tries to attack the BadassCrew with forklifts. Max managed to take them out by shooting the drivers with a concealed pistol.
* FriendToAllChildren: As badass as Andy Lo is, he's still very good with the kids, easily hanging out with Bin-bin and his schoolmates and bonding with the kid characters with ease.
* GunsDoNotWorkThatWay: Bullets, Do NOT work that way. Somehow Andy Lo can survive getting shot by an ice bullet because it melts harmlessly into water, without leaving a scratch on Andy Lo. Never mind the fact that the bullet goes straight through his brain...
* HarpoonGun: The preferred weapon of Karov, he notably uses it to kill a Greek fisherman and hijack his boat.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Karov]] repeatedly antagonizes the main characters for the crystal, trying to harness the crystal's powers for his own gains. His eventual fate has him finally grabbing hold of the crystal, just as it's teleporting itself back to Venus, taking Karov together with him.
* MamaBear: Mei-mei, the ActionMom of Bin-bin, who partakes in the rescue mission when Bin-bin gets abducted by Karov and his minions.
* MasterOfIllusion: One of the powers of the crystal, which can manipulate the mind waves of people within its vincinity and can make them hallucinate visions. Like the voyeur spying on an undressing Winnie seeing her peel her face off.
* MineralMacGuffin: The magic crystal itself. It's a sentient chunk of Venusian crystal with psychic powers.
* NerdGlasses: Bin-bin, the class nerd and protagonist who befriends the titular crystal, as well as Snooker, the bumbling {{Manchild}} assistant of Andy.
* PluckyComicRelief: Snooker, the FatComicRelief sidekick of Andy, who provides most of the laughs in the movie.
** Case in point: When a bunch of mooks infiltrates Bin-bin's house where Andy and Snooker are staying in, Snooker happens to be coming out of the toilet holding a toilet plunger before bumping into a KnifeNut mercenary. Said mercenary intimidates Snooker by [[LickingTheBlade licking his knife]]; Snooker responds by licking ''the plunger''.
* PowerCrystal: The titular crystal, who turns out to be an intelligent, ET-like being from Venus who wants to return home.
* PrisonRiot: A short one happens during the scene to break Andy Lo out of the prison he's held. It's during the confusion of this scene where he gets shot by an ice bullet.
* RailingKill: During an infiltration scene, Andy Lo flips a mook off a balcony to a hundred-meter drop.
* RedBaron: Lo's codename is '''Eagle Hunter No. 1'''.
*RetractableWeapon: Cindy's preferred weapon, which is a metal spear which she can fold into three and carry in a leather case, and unfold into a complete weapon whenever she gets into fights.
* SatellieCharacter: Ultimately, Max, the sidekick of Cindy, is this, since all his scenes are him tagging along behind Cindy, occasionally helping her to fight mooks, and he doesn't get as much development as the other characters (despite being played by HOng Kong celebrity Max Mok).
* ShoutOut: During the scene when Snooker touches the crystal and feels its energy filling his body, he actually shouts, "[[Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse I HAVE THE POWER]]!"
* SiliconBasedLife: The Venusian crystal itself is a living being, despite being a glowing chunk of rock.
* WaifFu: Cindy and Mei-mei both does this in their fights.
* WeHaveToGetTheBulletOut: A variant; Lo is able to survive an alleged assasination, because he gets shot in his head with... an ''ice'' bullet. He recovers and regains consciousness after the bullet melts.
* WholePlotReference: To ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'', but with the alien being changed to a sentiet piece of talking crystal. And with a bunch of fight scenes peppered throughout.
* WorkoutFanservice: Andy Lo's first scene. Andy Lau in a sleeveless vest working out.
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''The Magic Crystal'' is a 1986 action movie directed by Hong Kong schlockmeister Wong Jing, based on [[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial E.T.]] and the ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' movies, starring Creator/AndyLau, Creator/CynthiaRothrock, Max Mok and Richard Norton.
Andy Lau plays Andy Lo "The Eagle", a mercenary and secret agent who got his hands on a piece of Venusian crystal. Said crystal somehow ends up in the possession of Andy's nephew, Bin-bin, and turns out to be a sentient chunk of rock with psychic abilities, telepathy, and mind-manipulation powers. In a sub-plot shamelessly lifted from E.T., Bin-bin decides to help said Venusian crystal return to its home, which can only be accessed through an ancient spaceship located in some Greek ruins, but their mission is made complicated when ruthless KGB operative Karov (Norton) abducts Bin-bin with the crystal, intending to use the crystal's powers for himself. It's up to Andy and his partners, Interpol agent Cindy (Rothrock) and Max (Max Mok) to retrieve the crystal at all costs.
For a kid's movie, there are plenty of fight scenes, stabbings, FamilyUnfriendlyViolence, assassinations performed via ice bullets, and loads and loads of action... not that it's a bad thing. It overlaps somewhere between catering to an indecisive demographic and just simply enjoyable enough to be so-bad-it's-good. But whatever it strives for, the movie certainly entertains.
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!!The Magic Crystal is telepathically creating this trope list to be ingrained into your minds...
* AbnormalAmmo: The scene where the Interpol had to break Andy Lo out of prison involves shooting Lo in the head with [[MakesAsMuchSenseInContect ''ice'' bullets]].
* ActionGirl: Cindy Morgan, the ass-kicking Interpol Agent portrayed by Cynthia Rothrock, as well as Bin-bin's ActionMom Mei-mei.
* AncientAstronauts: The Greek ruins where the crystal is discovered turns out to be a portal which allows it to teleport back to its home planet, built by some ancient alien race (possibly affiliated with said crystal) several millenia ago.
* AnimateInanimateObject: The titular crystal, which can communicate with Bin-bin and other human characters via {{Telepathy}}.
* BadassCrew: One slapped together in the last moment, after Bin-bin gets kidnapped together with the crystal by Karov and his mooks. Consisting of RedBaron Andy, ActionGirl Cindy, ActionMom Mei-mei, Cindy's HypercompetentSidekick Max... and FatComicRelief [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Snooker]].
* BeardOfEvil: Karov the BigBad has an impressive one that covers his chin, sideburns and connects to his bushy moustache.
* ABoyAndHisX: A Boy and his Sentient, Talking Venusian Crystal with Psychic Powers.
* BoyishShortHair: On both Cindy and Mei-mei.
* ChaseFight: A rather lengthy and exciting one happens in the streets of Greece, between Andy and Cindy, being pursued by mooks.
* CoolUncle: Andy Lo to Bin-bin. Since he's played by the awesome Andy Lau, that's a given, but how many kids have uncles who turns out to be government agents and killing machines, who can bring their nephews to Greece for a vacation?
* CoversAlwaysLie: See the above poster? The titular crystal in the movie is ''green'', instead of blue.
* DestinationDefenestration: Inverted with Andy's first action scene, when he crashes into the meeting of a mob boss by throwing himself through a window and knocking out a surprised mook.
* DirtyCommunists: Karov, the BigBad of the movie, turns out to be a KGB agent seeking the power of the titular crystal for his own purposes.
* FeetFirstIntroduction: Used in the scene when Karov shows up near some Greek ruins. His boot filling up half the screen as the camera pans on what appears to be the Parthenon is the first thing the audience sees.
* FightingWithChucks: Subverted; during the warehouse fight scene Snooker uses a pair of chucks, but he spends most of the fight [[WimpFight flailing the chucks around uselessly]] while making plenty of noises trying to intimidate mooks. He does ''accidentally'' knock out a mook sneaking up behind him using sauid chucks though.
* ForkliftFu: During the warehouse fight, two mooks tries to attack the BadassCrew with forklifts. Max managed to take them out by shooting the drivers with a concealed pistol.
* FriendToAllChildren: As badass as Andy Lo is, he's still very good with the kids, easily hanging out with Bin-bin and his schoolmates and bonding with the kid characters with ease.
* GunsDoNotWorkThatWay: Bullets, Do NOT work that way. Somehow Andy Lo can survive getting shot by an ice bullet because it melts harmlessly into water, without leaving a scratch on Andy Lo. Never mind the fact that the bullet goes straight through his brain...
* HarpoonGun: The preferred weapon of Karov, he notably uses it to kill a Greek fisherman and hijack his boat.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Karov]] repeatedly antagonizes the main characters for the crystal, trying to harness the crystal's powers for his own gains. His eventual fate has him finally grabbing hold of the crystal, just as it's teleporting itself back to Venus, taking Karov together with him.
* MamaBear: Mei-mei, the ActionMom of Bin-bin, who partakes in the rescue mission when Bin-bin gets abducted by Karov and his minions.
* MasterOfIllusion: One of the powers of the crystal, which can manipulate the mind waves of people within its vincinity and can make them hallucinate visions. Like the voyeur spying on an undressing Winnie seeing her peel her face off.
* MineralMacGuffin: The magic crystal itself. It's a sentient chunk of Venusian crystal with psychic powers.
* NerdGlasses: Bin-bin, the class nerd and protagonist who befriends the titular crystal, as well as Snooker, the bumbling {{Manchild}} assistant of Andy.
* PluckyComicRelief: Snooker, the FatComicRelief sidekick of Andy, who provides most of the laughs in the movie.
** Case in point: When a bunch of mooks infiltrates Bin-bin's house where Andy and Snooker are staying in, Snooker happens to be coming out of the toilet holding a toilet plunger before bumping into a KnifeNut mercenary. Said mercenary intimidates Snooker by [[LickingTheBlade licking his knife]]; Snooker responds by licking ''the plunger''.
* PowerCrystal: The titular crystal, who turns out to be an intelligent, ET-like being from Venus who wants to return home.
* PrisonRiot: A short one happens during the scene to break Andy Lo out of the prison he's held. It's during the confusion of this scene where he gets shot by an ice bullet.
* RailingKill: During an infiltration scene, Andy Lo flips a mook off a balcony to a hundred-meter drop.
* RedBaron: Lo's codename is '''Eagle Hunter No. 1'''.
*RetractableWeapon: Cindy's preferred weapon, which is a metal spear which she can fold into three and carry in a leather case, and unfold into a complete weapon whenever she gets into fights.
* SatellieCharacter: Ultimately, Max, the sidekick of Cindy, is this, since all his scenes are him tagging along behind Cindy, occasionally helping her to fight mooks, and he doesn't get as much development as the other characters (despite being played by HOng Kong celebrity Max Mok).
* ShoutOut: During the scene when Snooker touches the crystal and feels its energy filling his body, he actually shouts, "[[Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse I HAVE THE POWER]]!"
* SiliconBasedLife: The Venusian crystal itself is a living being, despite being a glowing chunk of rock.
* WaifFu: Cindy and Mei-mei both does this in their fights.
* WeHaveToGetTheBulletOut: A variant; Lo is able to survive an alleged assasination, because he gets shot in his head with... an ''ice'' bullet. He recovers and regains consciousness after the bullet melts.
* WholePlotReference: To ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'', but with the alien being changed to a sentiet piece of talking crystal. And with a bunch of fight scenes peppered throughout.
* WorkoutFanservice: Andy Lo's first scene. Andy Lau in a sleeveless vest working out.
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