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Il giovane Wong Fei-Hung, esuberante ed indisciplinato, comincia a seguire le lezioni di un famoso e severissimo maestro di kung fu. I nuovi e preziosi insegnamenti lo aiuteranno a perfezionare l'arte del combattimento.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Not perfect but the best release to date for one of Jackie Chan's most enjoyable films
28 July 2009
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
The much-imitated Drunken Master confirmed Jackie Chan newfound stardom after his breakthrough film Snake in the Eagle's Shadow when Hong Kong producers stopped trying to turn him into just another action hero in the Bruce Lee-wannabe mold and finally realised that his unique selling point was the combination of physical comedy with action. The plot's pretty basic - Chan's undisciplined young future folk hero Wong Fei-Hung has to learn `Drunken' kung fu to take on a killer - but it's just there to provide enough of a excuse to allow a comic action scene every reel or so, most of them wonderfully ingeniously choreographed and just great fun. It's not a deep film or a deathless masterpiece, even though it is almost perfectly directed by Yuen Woo-Ping: it's just a pure entertainment that manages to be purely entertaining in the very best way.
Sony's release doesn't have the plethora of extras from Hong Kong Legends' original UK released, but unlike that version is in the right widescreen ratio - 2.35:1 instead of HKL's 1.85:1. The opening fight is still cut due to negative damage and parts of the original Cantonese soundtrack are missing (replaced by the odd bit of English), but the film really benefits from being seen in the right ratio, showing off the stunts much more comfortably. The only real extra is a commentary from Ric Mayers and Jeff Yang carried over from Sony's Region 4 Astralian disc (which also included the similarly entertaining Snake in the Eagle's Shadow), but it's still the best version of the film itself available to date.
Sony's release doesn't have the plethora of extras from Hong Kong Legends' original UK released, but unlike that version is in the right widescreen ratio - 2.35:1 instead of HKL's 1.85:1. The opening fight is still cut due to negative damage and parts of the original Cantonese soundtrack are missing (replaced by the odd bit of English), but the film really benefits from being seen in the right ratio, showing off the stunts much more comfortably. The only real extra is a commentary from Ric Mayers and Jeff Yang carried over from Sony's Region 4 Astralian disc (which also included the similarly entertaining Snake in the Eagle's Shadow), but it's still the best version of the film itself available to date.
22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
By D. Demetriou
Format:DVD
I have seen this film (which is probably the Greatest martial arts film ever) a billion times.
I recently decided to buy it on DVD as i have only ever owned it on VHS.
I found 3 very major flaws with this release.
I recently decided to buy it on DVD as i have only ever owned it on VHS.
I found 3 very major flaws with this release.
a. The original english dubbing has been re-dubbed and some of the characters renamed. Where has Sam Seed gone?
b. To try and make the voices look more like the movement of the mouth (something that should never be done to a Kung Fu Film) they have changed parts of the script and tried to be too clever with extended phrases and speeches, losing a lot of the humour this movie is renound for.
c. Jackie Chan now has an English Accent (Honestly).
I have decided to replace my worn out VHS version with another VHS version, and am praying that thay have not done to the VHS, what they have done to the DVD.
I can see the reason for them doing this, but for the nearly £20 I payed for it, surley they should have the original english dubbing on the disc as an option, along with the new dubbing and of course the original version in Mandarin.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:DVD
In the main, this DVD is great and deserves its 4 stars. The audio and video quality and story (a Jackie Chan classic!) are all superb. Love all the extra bonus material provided as well. However, only one gripe and this made me delete a star. The audio English dubbed version is awful. The person dubbing Jackie is particularly bad and hard to understand in some instances and some of the other characters are dubbed with bad English trying to be Chinese accents. The Mandarin version with English subtitles is preferable on the disk, even though it is not Jackie. The Snake in Eagles Shadow DVD by the same company with its English dubbed version was much better.
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Awesome
Absolutely great! So funny... laughed really hard! Would recommend this for anyone to watch. Quite exadurated but really really good!
Published 2 months ago by Martynas
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I have been after this movie for some time. I have the VHS, but wanted the DVD as the video is quite worn. Read more
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Published on 18 Aug 2010 by mela
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2008 DVD Version Review
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Published on 19 July 2010 by Kit
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good Comedy Kung Fu
One of JC's early film, very funny in parts but the DVD suffers from a fault whereby the language jumps from Chinese to english then back to chinese which spoils the film. Read more
Published on 26 Mar 2010 by J R Hartley
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