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If you like to laugh at poor dubbing, having one person do five different voices in a movie, hear riduculous lines ("That fellow's Kung Fu is pretty good!"), and like old Kung Fu movies then this movie is for you. For someone that tries to take movies seriously, this will be the absoulute worst movie they have ever seen. If you enjoy laughing at horribly done movies with atrocious acting, see this. I have watched a million Kung Fu movies and this one has got to be the worst (and therefore the funniest). It is so damn funny how bad it is. It is truly one movie you must see to see how bad it is. I like dumb humour and find stuff like this funny but many people do not. Even the Kung Fu is not very good. But it's just so damn funny to watch these guys talk and act so poorly. Even the music is preposterous. I like how the camera zooms in really fast to a person's face when they have an over-acted expression on their face. The sound effect are over the top exagerated. The dubbing is so bad and to hear a voice-over person try to change their voice to do more than one character is hilarious. This is the classic Kung Fu movie that you will instantly recognize as the template for all those comedians that make fun of Kung Fu movies. See this for a good laugh. It's just so damn dumb that it's funny. My five year old son and I watched it last night.

SUPER KUNG FU KID is a cheap and lousy kung fu effort that comes to us courtesy of Hong Kong. It's an early effort in the career of director Joseph Velasco, the man best known for bringing us the cheesy delights of THE CLONES OF BRUCE LEE and others. However, this effort - about a warring young man who discovers that his own brother is a gangster - is very much a by rote product, filled with inane fighting and barely anything in the way of plot.

The production is so cheap that half of the thing seems to have been filmed in an old quarry with various characters fighting over and over. A big bald thug is one of the main heavies here but there are the usual sneering villains and the like. The young upstanding hero is an exceptional bore and overall the production value is poor with fuzzy picture quality and badly-staged fights. Around the mid section of the film the narrative seems to stop entirely for some misogynistic abuse meted out to some poor young girl.

The only reason anyone could possibly want to see this is to catch the likes of James Nam, Bolo Yeung, Yuen Wah, and Yuen Biao at the early stages of their careers but they're in it very little and the latter two are almost impossible to spot. The only time the film picks up is for the violent climax on the boat but the rest is just filler.

It starts with a fight and it is a good fight. The movie totally stinks otherwise. The plot begins with the martial arts expert who has promised his mother he will not fight. Everywhere he goes people fight him for paper thin or total nonsense reasons. He leaves town and drags his mother along with him. There is no way a situation like that can result in entertainment. In the next town he gets in fights either because he might be a rebel or he might not be a rebel, whatever is appropriate at the moment.

Bolo is introduced as the villain yet he does nothing to show the viewer that he is a bad guy at all. Bolo challenges the hero to a fight and Bolo loses. (I can only remember one fight in all the movies Bolo did that he won.) Upon losing, Bolo offers friendship, but the hero refuses. Again, Bolo as the villain is just not coming across. The hero next meets his long lost brother. Brother tries to stab him in his sleep! What a reunion. Hero has no problem forgiving him for that but he cannot forgive him for working for Bolo.

Overall no one in this movie can act even for the briefest moment. The storyline makes no sense or consistency. The English dubbing is forced to fit the exact moments the actors are moving their lips and the tone of the voice actors is cartoonish.

There are plenty of fights but after the third fight or so it is all just the same thing over and over again. The use of the nunchucks as a weapon is totally unrealistic as choreographed. It is not the worst martial arts movie ever made but it has all of the fatal flaws of the worst. There were no special moments. I watched it once and I will never watch it again.