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It`s a Mad, Mad Mad Kung Fu World

  Country : Hong Kong
Year: 2000
Genre: Comedy / Documentary
Format: DVD
Running Time: 1H30
Distributor: WideSight Entertainment
Date reviewed: 05/18/2001
   
Producer: x
Director: Leung Ting

Cast:
Leung Ting, Meg Lam Kin-Ming, Law Kar-Ying, Gam Wai Ying, Leung Si Ho, Woo Wai Hong, Hung Chiu Fung, Bey Logan, Wong Tin Dok, Law Gwan Joh, Geung Hiu Man, Lee Ga Ding

 


Story:It`s a Mad, Mad, Mad Kung Fu World is a documentary that examines the origins of martial arts, famous legends and fantastic things related to the martial world. Starting from prehistoric times and moving through the ages many secrets are exposed, some are obvious while others are extremely informative. Leading up to martial arts that are practiced around the world.

Review: It's a Mad Mad Kung Fu world is an entertaining documentary that was probably originally made for television. A mixture between comical dramatizations and serious interviews make up the body of this movie. The little short stories during the documentary are entertaining yet are cheesy, as for the documentary as a whole it is very well presented.

The characters in the dramatizations are in a word cheesy, the acting is purposely exaggerated as bad. The bad characters are mainly an attempt at humor, which is good occasional but it cheesy for most of the time. During the short stories it is always the same actors that come back playing various roles but they always keep their silliness.

The information presented in this movie is very good, it's the kind of information that will make you better understand Kung Fu movies. Even the hardcore HK fans will find things of interest in this documentary, the Chinese vampire explanation is extremely good. During the course of the documentary you will get an overdose of cheesy humor, maybe some of you will find it funny but for the most part probably just cheesy. Unfortunately the ending of the documentary is kind of dry, no real conclusion of all the stuff that was shown.

The subtitles are burnt onto the print on the DVD version, we had some trouble following the text as there was a lot of dialog and the subtitles were sometimes a little hard to read or were gone too fast. Overall we found this documentary to be both entertaining and informative. The best part about this documentary was the information presented, the extreme cheesyness might turn off some people. We suggest this documentary to people that are already familiar with HK movies.

DVD [ NTSC, All Region ] :


To tell you the truth the image quality (LTB) of this DVD is comparable to that of a VHS. Blurry and fuzzy, the image could have been a lot better for a DVD. The sounds was a Dolby Digital 2.0. The English subtitles were burned on the copy and you had the Chinese subs at the same time. As for the extras you only have chapter selection, but can that really be considered an extra? This movie is only available in this format, so if you want to see it you will have to pick up a DVD but its not expensive.

Reviewed by Peter Zsurka

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