Drunken monkey kung fu has got to be the silliest of all kung fu styles. And for that reason it has to be my favorite to watch onscreen. In this Shaw Brothers epic they do make it seem at least fairly effective.
Our hero here makes some bad decisions when he gets to drinking which ends up in him getting his hands smashed with clubs until he's all crippled up. Luckily enough he just so happens to run into a guy named monkey who acts like a monkey and would make the perfect student to teach his mad monkey style to. This is a pretty dumb movie and it's also a bit long at almost 2 hours but it is amusing if you want to see guys jumping around like primates while kicking ass. On a down note an actual pet-monkey gets swung around on a chain and smashed to death. Hopefully this was a special effect but you can never be too certain with these Asian flicks.
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