A bookish young man named Tuan Yu (Danny Lee) believes that he doesn't need to learn to fight; his father, the brother of the king, disagrees and Tuan Yu decides to walk about in the world to see if he does need that skill. He soon meets Chung Ling-erh (Chen-Chi Lin), a snake-loving girl, who promises to teach him kung fu if he will teach her to read. In the meantime, Miss Mu (Ni Tien) is a fighter without compare, who always wears a mask and vows to either kill or marry any man who sees her face. The three soon find themselves facing all sorts of danger, not least from the husband of a woman who was having an affair with Tuan Yu's father. They will need to find a red snake, a deadly green toad and a lot of courage to make it through....
This is one of the Shaw Brothers films that makes almost no sense if you try to think about it logically, but is a lot of fun to look at anyway. There's all sorts of mayhem, including a gorilla (or rather, a man in a gorilla suit), bullet-like objects being shot from some characters' fingers, a guy who periodically belches out fire and oh, so much more! This film was rushed out just four or five months after the original "Star Wars" film, which it definitely seeks to emulate in terms of what were then state-of-the-art special effects; and it looks just as silly to modern eyes today as that original "Star Wars" does (I mean that affectionately). Tons of fun!
