{ "id": "epy32wkyhq", "slug": "fight-back-to-school-ii", "title": "Fight Back to School II (逃学威龙2)", "updated": "2026-11-01", "topic_path": [ { "id": "culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture" }, { "id": "culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films", "label": "Films and standalone screen works", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works", "label": "Individual films by title and year", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.franchise-series", "label": "Franchise and series entries as standalone works", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.franchise-series" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.franchise-series.franchise-series.teen-comedy-series-entries", "label": "Teen and comedy series film entries", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.franchise-series.franchise-series.teen-comedy-series-entries" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.franchise-series.franchise-series.teen-comedy-series-entries.entries-released-in-the-1990s", "label": "Entries released in the 1990s", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.franchise-series.franchise-series.teen-comedy-series-entries.entries-released-in-the-1990s" } ], "geo": [ { "id": "geo.chn.t1946.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.franchise-series", "label": "China · 1946 to 2000: Franchise and series entries as standalone works", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t1946.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.franchise-series", "path": [ { "id": "geo.chn", "label": "China", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t1946", "label": "China · 1946 to 2000", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t1946" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t1946.culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t1946.culture" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t1946.culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t1946.culture.performance" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t1946.culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t1946.culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t1946.culture.performance.screen.films", "label": "Films and standalone screen works", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t1946.culture.performance.screen.films" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t1946.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works", "label": "Individual films by title and year", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t1946.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t1946.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.franchise-series", "label": "Franchise and series entries as standalone works", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t1946.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.franchise-series" } ] } ], "excerpt": "Fight Back to School II (逃学威龙2) is a 1992 Hong Kong action comedy film directed by Gordon Chan, starring Stephen Chow as undercover policeman Chow Sing Sing.", "snippet": "Fight Back to School II (逃学威龙2) is a 1992 Hong Kong action comedy film directed by Gordon Chan, starring Stephen Chow as undercover policeman Chow Sing Sing.", "node": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.franchise-series.franchise-series.teen-comedy-series-entries.entries-released-in-the-1990s", "markdown": "# Fight Back to School II (逃学威龙2)\n\n**Fight Back to School II** (逃学威龙2) is a 1992 Hong Kong action comedy film directed by Gordon Chan (陈嘉上) and starring [Stephen Chow](https://www.edgepedia.org/stephen-chow), Sharla Cheung (张敏), [Ng Man-tat](https://www.edgepedia.org/ng-man-tat) (吴孟达), and Athena Chu (朱茵), released in Hong Kong on 9 April 1992[1](https://www.baike.com/wikiid/6410157697990423631). It is the second film of the *Fight Back to School* trilogy, following the 1991 original[2](https://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Fight_Back_to_School_2). The story again sends Chow's undercover policeman Chow Sing Sing into a school, this time to investigate an international terrorist plot, and it earned HK$31,635,680 at the Hong Kong box office[1](https://www.baike.com/wikiid/6410157697990423631).\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Director and writers | Gordon Chan; screenplay by Chan, Chan Kin-chung (陈健忠), and Kai-Chi Yuen (阮继志)[1](https://www.baike.com/wikiid/6410157697990423631) |\n| Release | 9 April 1992, Hong Kong; distributed by Newport Entertainment (新宝娱乐有限公司)[1](https://www.baike.com/wikiid/6410157697990423631) |\n| Hong Kong box office | HK$31,635,680 between 9 April and 7 May 1992[1](https://www.baike.com/wikiid/6410157697990423631) |\n| Principal cast | Stephen Chow (Chow Sing Sing), Sharla Cheung (Miss Ho), Ng Man-tat (Tso Tat-wah), Athena Chu (Sandy), Deanie Ip (Inspector Lydia Wong)[3](https://tv.apple.com/sg/movie/%E9%80%83%E5%AD%A6%E5%A8%81%E9%BE%99-2/umc.cmc.5pdr670o455r4j2c4j0o14xg4?l=zh) |\n| Production | Win's Movie Production; presenters Jimmy Heung and Charles Heung[4](https://tcmb.culture.tw/zh-tw/detail?id=11000048096&indexCode=MOCCOLLECTIONS) |\n| Awards | Nominated for Best Supporting Actress (Deanie Ip) and Best New Performer (Athena Chu) at the 12th Hong Kong Film Awards[5](https://www.avjet.com.tw/movies/8667) |\n| Theme song | \"大家免著惊\", composed, written, and sung by Lo Ta-yu (罗大佑)[6](https://www.oocities.org/hkmovies168/fightbacktoschool2.htm) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Plot\n\nAfter completing the undercover mission of the first film, Chow Sing Sing expects promotion. Instead, the newly appointed, stern female superintendent Lydia Wong (Deanie Ip) promotes his bumbling partner Tso Tat-wah to the Serious Crime Unit while demoting Chow to traffic duty after one of his jokes lands badly[3](https://tv.apple.com/sg/movie/%E9%80%83%E5%AD%A6%E5%A8%81%E9%BE%99-2/umc.cmc.5pdr670o455r4j2c4j0o14xg4?l=zh). At the same time, his girlfriend Miss Ho's parents press the couple toward marriage, and Chow, embarrassed that his fiancée must fund the wedding from her own savings, feels his standing slip further[3](https://tv.apple.com/sg/movie/%E9%80%83%E5%AD%A6%E5%A8%81%E9%BE%99-2/umc.cmc.5pdr670o455r4j2c4j0o14xg4?l=zh).\n\nPolice intelligence reports that terrorists who have carried out school bombings abroad have entered Hong Kong and plan a Christmas attack. Tso Tat-wah is sent undercover at an international school, and Chow, barred from the case, resigns from the force and joins the investigation on his own initiative as a student[7](https://m.maoyan.com/moviedp/4480?_v_=yes&channelId=60008). At the school he meets the student Sandy (Athena Chu), who falls for him, complicating his engagement to Miss Ho[1](https://www.baike.com/wikiid/6410157697990423631). The terrorists move on [Christmas Eve](https://www.edgepedia.org/christmas-eve); Tso evacuates the trapped students but is caught inside, and Chow returns with the SDU to fight the attackers, destroying the plot and restoring his standing[8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR1XAr7v8Gw).\n\n## Production and cast\n\nThe film was produced by Win's Movie Production under presenters Jimmy Heung and Charles Heung, with Gordon Chan directing and Chan Kin-chung and Kai-Chi Yuen sharing writing credit[4](https://tcmb.culture.tw/zh-tw/detail?id=11000048096&indexCode=MOCCOLLECTIONS). The crew included action choreographer Li Chien-sheng (李健生), composer Mah Mudd (林慕德), cinematographer Cheng Siu-keung (郑兆强), and editor Ma Chiu-sin (麦子善)[6](https://www.oocities.org/hkmovies168/fightbacktoschool2.htm).\n\n**Athena Chu's debut.** The film marked Athena Chu's first screen appearance. Gordon Chan spotted her in a television commercial while she was a student at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, and persuaded the school's principal to release her for the shoot; she was 20 at the time. Although [Sharla Cheung](https://www.edgepedia.org/sharla-cheung) was the nominal female lead, Chu's role as Sandy is effectively the larger female part[9](https://post.smzdm.com/p/axkzqk54/). Chu's performance earned her a Best New Performer nomination at the 12th Hong Kong Film Awards, where Deanie Ip was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress[5](https://www.avjet.com.tw/movies/8667).\n\nThe supporting cast includes Wong Yat-shan (黄一山) as Turtle Wong, Paul Fonoroff, James Wong (黄沾) as Pastor Wong, Lam Shung-yin as a judo coach, and Blacky Ko (柯受良)[6](https://www.oocities.org/hkmovies168/fightbacktoschool2.htm).\n\n## Reception and box office\n\nThe film ran in Hong Kong cinemas from 9 April to 7 May 1992 and took HK$31,635,680[1](https://www.baike.com/wikiid/6410157697990423631). The Maoyan database reports the total differently, as HK$36.13 million and eighth place for the year[7](https://m.maoyan.com/moviedp/4480?_v_=yes&channelId=60008). Either figure places it among the year's top earners in a 1992 market in which Stephen Chow's films occupied nearly half of the fifteen highest-grossing local productions[10](https://www.nsfocus.com.cn/uploadfile/2021/0929/20210929021520516.pdf).\n\nContemporary and later reviews describe the film as a deliberate repeat of the first film's formula with the comedy turned up. The *lovehkfilm* review credits Chow's deadpan comic performance with carrying the picture while criticizing the reliance on movie parodies and the strictly staged action finale[11](https://www.lovehkfilm.com/reviews_2/fight_back_to_school_2.htm). The 88 Films Blu-ray review calls the climax essentially a school-set *Die Hard* and highlights Ng Man-tat's Terminator parody, judging the film slightly more action-heavy and meaner in tone than its predecessor[12](https://blueprintreview.co.uk/2023/09/fight-back-to-school-trilogy-88-films/). On IMDb the film holds a 6.6/10 rating from about 3,500 voters[13](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105534/).\n\n## Censorship and home video\n\nThe [British Board of Film Classification](https://www.edgepedia.org/british-board-of-film-classification) passed the film, in its 2023 88 Films home-video version running 98 minutes 30 seconds, with a classification for strong violence, citing bloody shootings, slapstick fights, and explosions, along with infrequent strong language and moderate sex references[14](https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/fight-back-to-school-2-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0xmdeznzew). 88 Films released the complete trilogy, including *Fight Back to School II*, on Blu-ray in 2023[12](https://blueprintreview.co.uk/2023/09/fight-back-to-school-trilogy-88-films/). Reported running times differ across databases: Apple TV lists 1 hour 38 minutes[3](https://tv.apple.com/sg/movie/%E9%80%83%E5%AD%A6%E5%A8%81%E9%BE%99-2/umc.cmc.5pdr670o455r4j2c4j0o14xg4?l=zh), the BBFC lists about 99 minutes[14](https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/fight-back-to-school-2-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0xmdeznzew), and Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb list 1 hour 46 minutes[15](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fight_back_to_school_ii).\n\n## Place in the series\n\nThe film is the middle entry of the trilogy. The 1991 original had broken Hong Kong's box-office record with HK$43,829,449 and became the year's champion[16](https://insidechina.rti.org.tw/news/view/id/2152193), and the third film, *Fight Back to School III: Over the Year of the Rooster* (逃学威龙3之龙过鸡年), followed in January 1993[17](https://www.newton.com.tw/wiki/%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF%E7%A5%A8%E6%88%BF%E6%8E%92%E8%A1%8C%E6%A6%9C). The series allocated its stories among crime, school, and romance, a structure noted in scholarship on 1990s Hong Kong comedy[18](https://jpmm.um.edu.my/index.php/JPMM/article/download/9011/6360/18433).\n\n## References\n\n1. [逃学威龙2, 快懂百科](https://www.baike.com/wikiid/6410157697990423631)\n2. [Fight Back to School 2, IMFDB](https://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Fight_Back_to_School_2)\n3. [逃学威龙 2, Apple TV](https://tv.apple.com/sg/movie/%E9%80%83%E5%AD%A6%E5%A8%81%E9%BE%99-2/umc.cmc.5pdr670o455r4j2c4j0o14xg4?l=zh)\n4. [《逃學威龍2》電影海報, 國家文化記憶庫](https://tcmb.culture.tw/zh-tw/detail?id=11000048096&indexCode=MOCCOLLECTIONS)\n5. [逃學威龍2（粵語）, Av-Jet](https://www.avjet.com.tw/movies/8667)\n6. [逃學威龍2 Fight Back To School II (1992), oocities](https://www.oocities.org/hkmovies168/fightbacktoschool2.htm)\n7. [逃学威龙2, 猫眼电影](https://m.maoyan.com/moviedp/4480?_v_=yes&channelId=60008)\n8. [1992香港电影 懷舊經典 逃学威龙2, YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR1XAr7v8Gw)\n9. [〖影评专栏〗1992香港电影风云（中）, 什么值得买](https://post.smzdm.com/p/axkzqk54/)\n10. [1992年香港电影资料, nsfocus PDF](https://www.nsfocus.com.cn/uploadfile/2021/0929/20210929021520516.pdf)\n11. [Fight Back to School 2 (逃學威龍 2) (1992), lovehkfilm](https://www.lovehkfilm.com/reviews_2/fight_back_to_school_2.htm)\n12. [Fight Back to School Trilogy – 88 Films, Blueprint: Review](https://blueprintreview.co.uk/2023/09/fight-back-to-school-trilogy-88-films/)\n13. [Fight Back to School II (1992), IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105534/)\n14. [Fight Back To School 2, BBFC](https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/fight-back-to-school-2-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0xmdeznzew)\n15. [Fight Back to School II, Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fight_back_to_school_ii)\n16. [〖香港雜記〗港產片系列 -《逃學威龍》, RTI 洞察中國](https://insidechina.rti.org.tw/news/view/id/2152193)\n17. [香港票房排行榜, 中文百科全書](https://www.newton.com.tw/wiki/%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF%E7%A5%A8%E6%88%BF%E6%8E%92%E8%A1%8C%E6%A6%9C)\n18. 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