Purely Joyful Movie!

A different way of telling a story

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

It starts with fighters sparring before the abbot. He chooses five to learn Shaolin martial arts. This is a problem for Hwang Jang-Lee who wants to steal kung fu books. Some other student confronts the abbot to get the books and is denied. He kills the abbot and gets the books, which seems to show that this great knowledge in the books didn't help the abbot at all. The story starts out slow developing a story line that has been done to death and could have been established in two lines of dialog. This means that by 15 minutes in the only hope the viewer has is for really good fights or maybe some special moment. This viewer kept watching simply because Hwang Jang-Lee had yet to throw a kick and I am a patient man. That first kick came at about 18 minutes and not much else. Dragon Lee gets killed off early but returns to life before being completely buried.Too much talk is one thing but too much repeating the same talk is much worse and that is this movie's fatal flaw. The fights also looked repetitious and Hwang Jang-Lee's fights, I would say like the cliché "He phoned it in". I rate it below average and suitable only for hard core fans who want to watch every movie on their list.

This film has almost all the Fu fundamentals needed to be graded a Kung Klassic!It has the poor dubbing, rubbish acting and a terrible story-line. It has though some fantastic and inventive fight scenes that are well choreographed thanks to the talents of Dragon Lee and Geofrey Ho, which are even more entertaining combined with over the top gray hair pieces, bugs bunny voices (Where do they find these guys?) and very obvious fake mustache chicken eating foe! (I laughed so hard a little bit of wee came out!) It's accidental comic genius tops all the Kung-Spoof films ever (They are balls).The perfect hangover remedy list: Get some "Pop" and pizza and let Solimsa Yongpali soothe your aching mind.On the Kung Scale: 8/10

The movie is OK, but the sound effects are awful. I saw it on DVD and it was dubbed to English which makes the sound even worse.The plot is standard and the fighting scenes are acceptable, not good.