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Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Kung Fu Kids Break Away (1980)

A Chinese kung fu comedy written and directed by Kan Ping Yu.
A vagrant child kung fu master arrives in a village and befriends a pair of other orphan street children. An adult martial artist is also in this town and somehow they all end up fighting the "evil" leader of the village.
More of the same dung-pu. The audio is what made this one especially unbearable. Most of it was one child voice actor screaming through a distortion pedal. Add the single-track musical score and the same 2 or 3 adult voice actors from literally every other English-dubbed kung fuvie ever made for extra ear pain. The plot was relatively well-presented, although there was a gap commonly referred to as "why are they fighting?". The characters were identifiable by appearance, although not by the sound of their voice (see above). They used speed adjustment as a special effect in the fight scenes to give the kids better fu skills, which I thought was kind of cool. This is best demonstrated in the bean curd fight. There was a full-frontal male nudity scene in this when the orphans are bathing in a river. Why did we need to see a little kid's microscopic penis? Oh well, must be an equal rights thing to even out for the naked women in other films. I'm rating it bad.