Shaolin Drunkard

wow! kung fu with lots of puppets, magic, and wine! excellent movie with plenty of comedy. only reccomended to those who love silly ghost/monster movies like Close Encounters of the Spooky Kind. watch for the elaborate domino jail scene, or the thief using a puppet to steal a key. also check out taoism drunkard (0085628), which appears to be the sequel or the same people working on it anyways.

Absolutely bizarre.

This film wastes no time getting started and never really lets up. Lots of magic kung fu. Lots of crude silly 80's HK humor. Over the top acting, insane set design, lots of puppets and a giant poisonous frog! The filming is fast and cheap so some of the editing and continuity is haphazard. The martial arts are silly most of the time but the last big fight scene is very good in it's own weird way. If you like films with some sort of serious subtext then run fast from this one. Nothing is serious here. At one point early on, the Drunkard sinks into the stone floor until his feet are by his face! No explanation on what's going on or why he's doing it! If you can't stand a film this weird, you've been warned.

The same team did Taoism Drunkard and Young Taoism Fighter. All recommended.

Went on a bit of a martial arts movie binge tonight as a reward for working a lot lately. I think I kind of saved the weakest of the three I watched for last, Shaolin Drunkard, but this was also the craziest and most experimental. In fact, it's one of the most fever-dream-heavy martial arts flicks I've seen in a good while. I probably haven't seen something quite this weird within the genre since The Boxer's Omen... that one came out the same year, and was admittedly much more gross. Shaolin Drunkard is more bizarre than it is disgusting.

Strangely, for a Yuen Woo-Ping film, the action doesn't really jump out as the best thing in the movie. I think Shaolin Drunkard kind of gets by owing to its oddest elements, but other than some pretty crazy quirks, there's not a whole lot to it, nor its action (which I guess is appropriately weird, I'd have to concede).

I feel like something like this deserves its status as a martial arts deep-cut. Die-hard fans will probably find themselves stumbling upon it eventually, and those who would find it to be way too much will probably live their lives blissfully unaware of its strange existence.

From the same people who made DRUNKEN WU TANG, and featuring some of the same characters, this is early 80s Hong Kong Kung fu, with blood-drinking demons, giant frogs, flaming fists, giant fire-breathing puppets, and a very surreal mumenchanz-like butt mask Kung Fu fight. Back flips and mayhem, a giant toad with glowing eyes and a tongue that stretches across the room and breaks a table, and a gruesome "walk on the nails" scene. whew.

At one point, the bad says: "Ha Ha Ha!!! I'm evil!!!"

Rat Face(the Drunken Toaist) drinks and fights with gusto, takes a sand shower, and always manages to survive to drink again.

If you like wilfully weird (Lewis Carroll, Salvador Dali, Luis Bunuel) check this one out.

Heading into Shaolin Drunkard I was under the impression that there would be no movie that could even come close to Drunken Master 2 in terms of being an awesome martial art movie and being funny. So, I went into this with pretty low expectations. Low and behold within minutes I'm smiling, and finding myself damned entertained with this off-the-wall kickass flick.

Story revolves around a young man who's on the search for a virgin bride, and a drunk guard whose trying to track down an evil magician who broke out while he was supposed to be on duty. Throw in a masculine grandma, a wise-crackin street magician, oodles of awesome magic tricks, inventive fight scenes and an awesome evil toad.

Out of the dozen or so classic martial arts movies I've seen, I've got to rate Shaolin Drunkard up there with the best ones. This flick managed to keep me entertained consistently at a high level. If you enjoy whacky humor and creative martial arts craziness, this is a must see.