MAD MONKEY KUNG FU 
(1982)


(From Joe Bob's Ultimate B Movie Guide)


In this Hong Kong classic the goofy hero, Chan, gets suckered into sipping some kind of moonshine Chinese Zombie Tequila out of a thimble-cup with a guy named Twon, causing him to "run around like a crazy monkey" and then pass out. Villainous men in pajamas place Chan in bed with Twon's wife, knowing that when he wakes up he'll face the particularly nasty form of capital punishment reserved for adulterors: death by drowning. But then Chan's sister says "Spare him, Twon, and I'll be your slave and your concubine." And Twon says, "Well, all right, but I'll have to cripple his hands." So they play the drum solo to "Inna Godda Divida" on Chan's hands, and he ends up on the street, selling candy with a trick monkey named Elmo. But when the local mob sends thugs over to knock down Chan's candy stand and sling his monkey up against a tree and bash the little booger's brains out, Chan is forced to team up with a street urchin who is so jumpy that he reminds Chan of his dead pet monkey Elmo, so the kid becomes "Monkey." Then the mob returns, tying up Monkey like a bull calf and taking all the candy money, and the kid can't take it anymore. "You must teach me to Monkey Box!" he tells Chan. So Chan takes the kid up into the mountains to train for the Big One. Just to give you an idea of how awesome the Kung Fu City finale is, Monkey goes into a whorehouse where they're keeping Chan's sister, and he takes on thirty guys at once, and they've all got whips, ropes, knives and swords, and all Monkey's got is one little fan and his . . . Mad Monkey Kung Fu!

 

 

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