Shaolin contre Mantis

If you're a fan of crazy kung-fu then this is a must-see. Just the idea alone of learning kung-fu from a drunken master is enough to make it a hit. Don't look for an ocsar winner here just plain funniness. There was tons of fight scenes and freaked out moves...and really isn't that all we want in a martial arts film?

My children and I are big fans of Gordon Liu; in fact, one of the first Chinese kung-fu movies that we've ever seen together was Shaolin Drunken Monk. It's been sitting on the top shelf for years. Last night, we watched it again for the first time in years.

The plot was the standard revenge plot; however, the martial arts sequences were pretty good, especially the drunken boxing sequences. The most distracting part of the movie was the dubbing. Where is it written that every voice has to sound vastly different from every other voice...to the point where they were sounding cartoonish.

And worse, the characters developed British accents over time. They started with American accents and by the end of the flick, they were all sounding like David Niven...

Also, the ending was standard for a Gordon Liu movie: It looks like the movie was over when they suddenly ran out of film...

Awesome Chia Hui Liu movie the fights are great.Now Albeit it is a low budget and the editing and dubs are pretty weak stuff.However the bad parts of this movie are just plain funny and the good parts wow.I would have to say the fight sequences in this movie are highly realistic no phony jumps or extraordinary feats.What you see is just good old plain Gung FU.And Gordon looks great in this so do all the actors as far as the Gung Fu.Even the story is decent I suspect it had a very low budget and slim timetable to make it.Don't expect polish there isn't much do expect bad dubs(Eng. Version),cheap camera tricks and a very brief ending!You will also see Gordon at his best and the one handed fighter is to good to be missed!

This was a wonderfully entertaining movie. In most traditional respects, it was a complete disaster. The editing (including the sound editing) is the worst I have ever seen/heard in a movie. Whoever chose the cats who dubbed this in English was apparently drunk as well - most of them sounded clinically depressed (or like a bunch of morons). But the whimsical roles and performances of Gordon Liu and the drunken master more than compensated for the monumental failures. This remains one of my all-time favorite gongfu movies.

This film is awful. Gordon Liu is a decent actor and fighter. He really got a bum role in this film because the film is really dull. I fell asleep and had to rewind it.