History Film / SixtyMillionDollarMan

** Another thing that comes to one's mind when Sing can be rebuilt is Franchise/RoboCop.
** Parodies of Franchise/TheTerminator can be seen here and there when Sing is upgraded into a transforming cyborg. [[spoiler: Mark completely plays the Terminator part straight after he's rebuilt, however.]]
** The parasol scene as Sing holds Chung-chung could be a reference to Film/InspectorGadget, which also has the same premise about a cyborg protagonist.
** When the board of directors of the private school get sent to a mental hospital, they brought up The Terminator 3, Film/JurassicPark 4, and {{Film/Jaws}} 5. [[note]]Two of these are [[HilariousInHindsight now available.]][[/note]]

** Taken UpToEleven when the delinquent students catch him watering the plants with his "urinator"... and then ''pull it alongside Sing himself all over the school corridors''.

* EverythingsBetterWithCows: Sing's mansion has a pet cow as a method of obtaining fresh milk for the mansion.

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* HollywoodHomely: Chung-chung. Averted after the two-year time gap, where she looks really good as she is.

Lee Chak-Sing (Chow) is the [[SpoiledBrat spoiled son]] of the head director of a university in Hawaii, doing typical spoiled rich boy things: wooing girls, playing pranks on anybody unlucky enough to run into him, and intimidating people to the point he is feared by the entire university, with the exception of Chung-chung (Gigi Leung) and her professor uncle Chang Sze (Elvis Tsui). Things change for him one day however, when he was found to be the biological son of mansion servant Tat (Tat, [[TheDanza yeah]]) as a result of a one night stand with said head director's wife, causing him to lose inheritance to the head director's wealth. [[FromBadToWorse And]], because he got caught dating with a girl who is actually the girlfriend belonging to the Yakuza leader Fumiko (Joe Cheng), he got killed in an explosion planted by Fumiko's top assassin, Mark (Charles Shen).

Despite the explosion incinerating everything but Sing's brain and mouth, there's one chance to [[BackFromTheDead bring Sing back to life]]: a project to [[WeCanRebuildHim construct a new body for a dead person using what few body parts that are left intact]]... at a reasonable cost of [[TitleDrop sixty million dollars]]. But neither Sing nor Tat has the money for that as his rich "father" abandons both of them at their desperate moment... yet not all hope is lost, as Chang has the know-how to replicate the body reconstruction process for a much, more affordable price of six thousand dollars. Rebuilt with [[YouGetWhatYouPayFor whatever his father and the professor could have]], Sing is forced to leave for Hong Kong to not alert Fumiko of his resurrection, and adjusts to his new life as a cyborg. But one day, when he's hired to teach in one of the worst private high schools in Hong Kong, things are about to take a whole new turn for him...

* ArtificialLimbs:

* BackFromTheDead: Sing

* BlandNameProduct: The name of the toothpaste Sing transforms into, Westerner Toothpaste (西人牙膏）, is a parody of Darlie toothpaste (黑人牙膏).
* BodyHorror: Played for laughs when Sing is inserted two proper pairs of arms, and we say ''two'' pairs of arms because arms are the only limbs Chang can find, substituting arms in the place of legs. Fortunately he gets a proper pair of legs later on.

* BungledSuicide: Sings tries to poison himself with floor cleaner but soap water comes out from his "urinator" instead. Electrocution? Doesn't destroy his cyborg body at all. Fall from a great height? Interrupted by his microchip power-up.
* CameBackWrong: Sing is perfectly fine after his artificial body is constructed, except for his "urinator", which is a ''pipe hose'' attached to his crotch.

* ConflictBall: [[spoiler: Even though his body is destroyed in an explosion, Sing ''still'' foul-mouths at his rich "father", causing the university head director to abandon him and Tat.]] Which gets lampshaded by Tat:

* DefeatMeansFriendship: The delinquent students after a newly-superpowered Sing teaches them a lesson. Hard.

* EyeForAnEye: How to teach water pack-dropping students a lesson? By spraying a pipe hose at them!

* IHaveNoSon: [[spoiler: The university head minister abandons Sing and Tat after the former got killed in the explosion.]]

* MorphicResonance: Zig-zagged. Some of his transformations have Sing's face being shown, like him being the portrait of his toothpaste or his face textured all over a toilet seat, but others, like a rice cooker, [[spoiler: an iron or a microwave oven]], doesn't show his face at all.

** He [[ImprovisedWeapon ''weaponizes'']] household appliances against the delinquent students, utterly destroying any chances of them tricking Sing.

* ParryingBullets: Sing uses his spatula hand to return paintball shots back towards the delinquent students [[spoiler: and the bullets of Mark's henchman back towards them.]]

* TemptingFate: Chang warns that Sing had his father isn't the university's head director, he would have been hated instead of feared. So Sings loudly says "my father isn't the university's head director!" to taunt Chang. Cue a bunch of hiding students appearing out of nowhere to beat up Sing. [[spoiler: And Sing being revealed to be Tat's biological son.]]

* WetMeansDefeated: After getting their faces blasted wet by Sing's hand pipe hose, the girls holding water balloons flee from him.

Lee Chak-Sing (Chow) is the [[SpoiledBrat spoiled son]] of the head minister of a university in Hawaii, doing typical rich boy things: wooing girls, playing pranks on anybody unlucky enough to run into him, and of course, slacking on his studies. Things change for him one day when he meets Chung-chung (Gigi Leung) however, he was found to be the biological son of mansion servant Tat (Tat, [[TheDanza yeah]]) as a result of a one night stand with said head minister's wife, causing him to lose inheritance to the head minister's wealth. [[FromBadToWorse And]], because he tried to woo a girl who is actually the girlfriend belonging to the Yakuza leader Fumiko (Joe Cheng), he got killed in an explosion planted by Fumiko's top assassin, Mark (Charles Shen).

Despite the explosion incinerating everything but Sing's brain and mouth, there's one chance to [[BackFromTheDead bring Sing back to life]]: a project to [[WeCanRebuildHim construct a new body for a dead person using what few body parts that are left intact]]... at a reasonable cost of [[TitleDrop sixty million dollars]]. But neither Sing nor Tat has the money for that as Sing renounced his rich "father"... yet not all hope is lost, as university professor Chang Sze (Elvis Tsui) has the know-how to replicate the body reconstruction process for a much, more affordable price of six thousand dollars. Rebuilt with [[YouGetWhatYouPayFor whatever his father and the professor could have]], Sing is forced to leave for Hong Kong to not alert Fumiko of his resurrection, and adjusts to his new life as a teacher in one of the worst private high schools in Hong Kong.

If you think this sound likes the premise for a very {{Troperiffic}} movie, ''it is''. With Chow's signature ''mo lei tau'' comedy style and providing homages to many action movies of the time like Franchise/RoboCop and Franchise/TheTerminator while trying to fit in as many tropes as possible, ''Sixty Million Dollar Man'' is filled with plenty of moments that range from hilarious to emotional, a hallmark seen in many of Chow's movies.

* [[spoiler: AntagonistTitle: The English title. Sing couldn't afford the sixty million dollar technology to rebuild his body, so his gets a six thousand dollar substitute instead. Mark, however, after being heavily damaged by Sing, gets the sixty million dollar treatment as Fumiko can (obviously) afford it, thus making the title into this trope.]]

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: We never get to see any attempts by the delinquent students to harm Chung-chung, but after the school session ends, Chung-chung is revealed to also teach at the same school Sing does, and doesn't suffer the same AmusingInjuries Sing did there. Maybe it is either the school chairman's son is dating her and thus granted immunity by those students, or it has got to do with the fact nobody wants to mess with the niece of a ''[[MadScientist university professor capable of reanimating body parts]]''.

* BlowYouAway

* EyeForAnEye: How to teach water balloon-dropping students a lesson? By spraying a pipe hose at them!
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Sing has upgraded to household appliance-transforming cyborg! ...But he still contemplates on suicide, so Tat calls him out for not properly thinking about the many great things that power can be used for.

* InnerCitySchool / SuckySchool: The school Sing teaches in is populated by rich and ''extremely misbehaving'' delinquent students, viciously attacking any adult they see. The chairman and his son aren't any better, as they are only focused on profit. The students soon behave much more properly after seeing what a freshly-superpowered cyborg teacher does to them, as well as that chairman being [[{{Pun}} schooled]] by what said cyborg is capable of.

* ParryingBullets: Sing uses his spatula hand to block paintball shots fired by a group of boys.

** First thing that comes to one's mind when Sing can be rebuilt is Franchise/RoboCop.
** Sing's ability to transform into household appliances may be seen as a parody of Franchise/TheTerminator. [[spoiler: Mark completely plays the Terminator part straight after he's rebuilt, however.]]