I had seen this Jackie Chan kung-fu flick, along with part 1, many moons ago in the VHS-era when I would rent pretty much anything in the martial-arts section. The only thing I remembered about this one is that Jackie hunts frogs and snakes for food and then shoves them down his pants for safe keeping(turns out he also chokes a chicken which is pretty rude!). That's probably because most of this is pretty standard Jackie comedy schtick up until the last half hour or so when it gets a teensy bit more serious with people dying off thanks to our two main bad guys who go by the names of Heaven and Earth. There is a kinda cool scene where a guy gets set on fire while fighting evil-doers that I don't recall in anything else. There is a hodgepodge feeling to things(which is due to Chan quitting his association with producer Lo Wei's company and never finishing the film necessitating editing whatever footage Wei already had of Jackie into this thing to try and make a comprehensible whole film) . This never really bothered me too much since I guess I never had very high expectations to begin with. If you are a big fan of Mr. Chan's though this one is probably not the best example of his work and you should probably just watch the first HYENA film and stop there.
There is a FEARLESS HYENA 3(made before this in 1980 under it's original title of FEARLESS MASTER) which has the great Bolo yeung in it which is cool. Unfortunately it also stars some Jackie rip-off fellow named Jackie Chen which is probably not so cool.
Known in Germany as SUPERFIGHTER 2( strangely enough the first FEARLESS HYENA is SUPERFIGHTER 3 and PROJECT A is the first SUPERFIGHTER):
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