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This musical is based on a fairy tale of the same name written by Charles Perrault. After the death of his wife, a king goes mad and decides to marry his daughter. Seeking advice from her fairy godmother, the young princess tries to stop the wedding by demanding from her father dresses that are apparently impossible to make. When this scheme fails, she asks for the skin of her father's donkey, the king's most valuable animal because it defecates golden coins. When even this wish is granted, seeing that she can no longer stop her father, the princess wraps herself in the donkey's skin so that she won't be recognized and runs away to another kingdom. There, she lives as a poor peasant in a small shanty, and is despised by everyone because of her looks. But one day the prince of that kingdom stops by her shack, peeps through her window, and sees her without her donkey skin. He falls in love with her and invents a stratagem to make her reveal her true identity.

A very light musical comedy with great music by Michel Legrand.

The producers of "Cheetah on Fire" probably got together and said "Let's make a movie with Donnie Yen, a lot action and fight scenes, and some sex; all we need now is a plot and some music to go with it". The result is an awfully bad movie. Of course, one should not expect a lot of realism from the fighting scenes of HK action movies, but the ones in this movie were so gratuitous, confusing, and boring that even fans of the genre will be disappointed.