![]() ![]() ![]() The second-most adorable creature in the universe is the title character, who originally appears as a plastic glow-in-the-dark ball in a piece of fish netting. (I was even more delighted to discover, after seeing the movie, that the child who plays him is not a boy at all but a precociously talented 9-year-old girl.) This is an appealing trait, but Dicky - while flawed and tantrum-prone - also possesses a goofy, innocent charm that triggers adults' adoption instincts. He even has fuzzy ears, which are illuminated like downy halos whenever he's seen in closeup and he's lit from behind. He is so cute and expressive that he's more like a puppy than a boy. ![]() It helps that Dicky is the most adorable creature in the universe. A beautiful teacher, Miss Yuen ( Kitty Zhang Yuqi), is sweetly sympathetic to Dicky's tattered and, let's face it, lovably grubby condition. Cao ( Shing-Cheung Lee, a bespectacled Chinese Stephen Merchant) is so germ-o-phobic that he thinks Dicky is a pathogenic vector. Dad works construction jobs and shops at hazmat dump sites to keep Dicky enrolled in a fancy private school, where he has a reputation for being unhygienic, although he's really just a little muddy and smudgy. A poor boy named Dicky ( Xu Jiao) lives with his father, Ti (Chow, actor-director of " Kung Fu Hustle" and " Shaolin Soccer"), in an urban ruin. ![]()
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