This movie is pretty awesome! It's one of those crazy-ass insane kung fu flicks that might hurt your head if you try and think about what the hell is going on too hard but it was made by the Shaw Brothers studio so it's nuttiness is done extra well. You get a kung fu gorilla(in a classic 1930's-looking gorilla-suit), some killer snakes, a giant snake, laser beams, a guy with bionic metal Big-Bird legs, a green-faced monster guy with a lobster hand and all kinds of weird plot elements. They pack so much off-the-wall stuff in this that you really don't have time to get bored. Another thing I liked is that according to this movie you don't even have to train at all to become a kung fu master which certainly gives me a lot of hope. All you have to do is eat the right stuff and I'm really good at eating stuff. In this case the right stuff includes drinking giant magical snake blood and eating a poisonous frog and then you will become a master ass-kicker or battle wizard as the title promises. This movie has been called the STAR WARS of martial arts films and I can see the comparison what with the laser fights and a familiar brother/sister angle in both and just an all-around big adventure feel but this one is much kookier. Hell, even that German poster up there looks a little STAR WARS-ish.
Kung fu fans should definitely check this one out to see what is probably the Shaw's strangest/craziest epic, or at least the craziest one I've seen so far.
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