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It`s
a Mad, Mad Mad Kung Fu World
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Country
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Hong
Kong |
| Year: |
2000 |
| Genre: |
Comedy
/ Documentary |
| Format: |
DVD |
| Running
Time: |
1H30 |
| Distributor: |
WideSight
Entertainment |
| Date
reviewed: |
05/18/2001 |
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| 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 |
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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entertaining documentary that was probably originally
made for television.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.
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DVD
[ NTSC, All Region
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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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movie was provided courtosy of: 
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Cast |
Entertainment |
Subtitles |
Overall |
| 3 |
1.5 |
3 |
3.5 |
2.5 |

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