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MAD MONKEY KUNG FU |
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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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