Fei Lung gwoh gong

This loving tribute to Bruce Lee from Sammo is very funny and features scenes that are great homages to the Little Dragon. Something that brings the film down is its naive attempt at a Jim Kelly parody/tribute that is in rather bad taste. An otherwise worthwhile entry.

Sammo Hung directed and stars in this parody of Enter the Dragon. Parody might be a bit strong, it's somewhere between a parody and a tribute to the late great Bruce Lee. You can't take this movie too seriously, but if you go in with the right mindset it's fairly entertaining. There is a lot of comedy thrown in with a few really good kung fu scenes. No surprise that Sammo is good with the jokes, but he definitely has some kung fu skills! He has an uncredited role in the original Enter the Dragon where he fights Bruce Lee.

**1/2 (Out of 4)

This is of of Sammo's great early comedy films. This isn't a parody of enter the dragon, the main character (Sammo) is obsessed with Bruce Lee and emulates him freakishly well for a man of his size. Nominal story about how his fighting keeps causing his loved ones trouble - then fighting. Oh, the fighting. Good, fast-paced scenes with high impact (the white guy who plays a boxer looks like he really gets hurt by one of Sammo's kicks).

The funniest bit of this movie was purely unintentional. There is a Jim Kelly looking guy (one of three experts hired to take out Sammo), but he was a Chinese guy in blackface with an afro-wig. Come on, didn't they have any real black people in Hong Kong in 1978? Well, I guess I've seen enough white fake-as-hell "Chinese people" in old American movies too.

This is one is for any Sammo or Bruce Lee fan.

I am a big fan of movies coming from Hong Kong, though I must admit that I go for Hong Kong movies made from the early '80s to the present day - I find Hong Kong films from the '70s to be fairly dull and mostly indistinguishable from each other. But I enjoyed this early Sammo Hung movie. True, there isn't a great plot here - the plot only starts after thirty minutes, and it moves VERY slowly. And I think there will be some viewers who will be offended that a character of African descent is portrayed by an Asian man in an afro wig and blackface. But despite flaws like those, the movie overall is fun. The fights are pretty good, and the movie's sense of humor (mostly in a slapstick vein) is genuinely funny at times. The movie is a good showcase for Hung's fighting and comic skills, and will entertain fans of Hong Kong movies.

I was given the chance to watch "Enter the Fat Dragon" (aka "Fei Lung gwoh gong") from 1978 here in 2019. And with it being a martial arts movie from Hong Kong, and starring Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, of course I sat down and watched it.

Odd, how I've managed to evade this movie up until now, because this was a glorious combination of spoof and homage to Bruce Lee and his unique style of movies and movie-making. And Sammo Kam-Bo Hung was superb in the role.

There is a wonderful combination of action, storytelling, drama and comedy throughout the course of "Enter the Fat Dragon", with emphasis on comedy and action, of course.

This is definitely an old school type of martial arts, and a very enjoyable one as well. So I am sure that the movie will be enjoyable to almost anyone who has an interest in martial arts movies.

"Enter the Fat Dragon" is a movie that is well worth sitting down and watch, especially given the wonderful sense of combination of spoof and homage that they put together here.