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GYMKATA
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Olympic gold medal gymnast Kurt Thomas in
the first of one starring roles, playing an Olympic gold medal
gymnast recruited by the CIA to go to Hindu Land and fight 900
warriors to the death so they can stick a nuclear missile base in
the middle of an Arab country. "If you win the fight," they tell
him, "the king says we can do it." So Kurt, who stands about 3-
foot-6 and has a voice like Betty Boop, starts training for the
Big Gave by walking on hands and riding around on a Clydesdale
and throwing cardboard knives and letting big black guys beat him
up. Pretty soon he's getting off the tour boat in Hindu Ville,
where a guy tells him "The reason these people are spitting in
your face is there's just a LITTLE anti-American sentiment here,"
and then the messenger gets an arrow through his stomach and Kurt
has to run through the alleys of Zagreb until he finds one that
happens to have a horizontal gymnastics bar set up between two
buildings. So he grabs the bar and starts spinning and kicking
guys in the teeth cause they wear turbans and carry those big
curved knives like Yul Brynner. Apparently the reason this was
filmed in Yugoslavia is that the whole country has gymnastics
equipment hidden in the rocks, and sticking out of buildings, and
it gives Kurt a big advantage over the guys with machine guns.
Kurt's girlfriend gets kidnapped in a terrorist training camp,
and Kurt has to go in there and gymnastick his way out, then the
two of em decide to take a whitewater raft trip, only on the way
down the river, eight Ninja warriors come out of the woods and
carry everybody off to the Hindu Castle where they put Kurt in a
big bed so some transvestite maids can come mop his brow and get
him ready to be killed in the big race. The way the race works
is, they say "Run like hell," and all the warriors take off, and
then the Ninjas chase em on horseback and shoot em through the
back with arrows and spear em in the privates. But Kurt's been
practicing his steak-knife twirling so that he can survive the
flaming-rope torture, the Grand Canyon cleaver attack, the
gymkata-fu struggle against a crazed 800-pound Norwegian Viking
named Thor, and the final Race Through the Loony Bin, where
everybody tries to make it through a prison full of zombies
carrying farm implements. Then he kisses the king's daughter like
a fish. 85 dead bodies. Twelve implements. One gallon blood. Ten
Kung Fu scenes. Gymnastics Fu. Loonie Fu. One motor vehicle
chase. One pitchfork through throat. Heads roll. Sickle in
stomach. Pig-licking.
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