Softwing
Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??
Neive Bellamy
Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
Jenni Devyn
Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.
mattnintendonerd
I saw someone do a movie review on this video on a website and I looked everywhere to find this movie. I couldn't find it. So one day I was at a yard sale and saw they had this video on VHS. I bought it, though I had a DVD player, not a VCR. So I went to three different electronic stores and got to best buy. They only had a VCR connected to a TV. The TV was 400 dollars. This was in 2001 when VCRS were out dated and shitty TV's were a lot of money, ANYWAY, I bought it and saw the video. I was stunned. If you saw this movie you would know what I mean. Its old so right off the bat I loved it. I'm into that stuff. Also this movie is hands down one of the best movies I have seen. It has that old 1970's "Kung Fu" stylized action. And I just enjoyed every minute of this video. So I would like to thank James Rofle for recommending this movie.
slayer540
This movie was made 33 years ago so it was not going to have great visuals like what we are used to today in more modern movies. The film has its funny moments but most of its just so slapstick that its not funny. Its hard to describe the humor of the film. Over acting is one of the funniest things to watch over and over again. B-movies sometimes are funny and this one is one of those types of films. There are lots of other factors that contribute to the film be watchable but it is something that you have to be in the mood to watch. I'm not sure if King Kong Fu was supposed to a comedy or a action flick. Its an odd combination of about three different movie genres.
Woodyanders
This extremely silly, flimsy and overlong send-up of both the horrendous '76 "King Kong" remake and the then hot 70's kung fu craze relates the inane tale of a chortling, deep-voiced chopsocky Chinese gorilla who runs amok in Wichita, Kansas and the obnoxious opportunistic aspiring newscaster who exploits the ape in order to further his reporting career. Writer/director/co-star Lance D. Hayes misses the bull's eye more often than he hits it with his broad, sprawling, wildly erratic satiric potshots at such once faddish, but now hopelessly passé targets as streaking, John Wayne, America's newfound amicable relationship with China, Howard Cosell and spaghetti westerns, thereby ensuring that this strictly middling affair doesn't even come close to acquiring the infectiously goofy charm of the Me Decade's two greatest blockbuster picture parodies "Hardware Wars" and "Closet Cases of the Nerd Kind." However, the scenes with the gorilla beating people up whenever it breaks out with plenty of fancy strenuous slow-motion martial arts moves and the judiciously used stop-motion animation effects are the authentic gnarly article. But overall this flick sizes up as a very dumb, dated and hence instantly forgettable timewaster.
R.E. (Bob) Walterscheid (King-17)
As the producer of King Kung Fu, I marvel at the comments about this being "Worst Film Ever". For the correct information, please know that KKF actually played in 11 theaters around the country. Also while standing in the lobby of two theaters the audience laughed their tails off during the film. They then commented that it was "corny". It has been sold to Japan, Taiwan, and Poland. It was shot on 43 locations and has over 40 speaking parts. It was shot in SimianScope. King Kung Fu is the unforgettable story of a Chinese gorilla who knows Karate. After beating up his master (a Kung Fu Master)he is shipped to the U.S. as a gift by the embarrassed master. On the way to New York, he is put on display in Wichita, Kansas where two out of work reporters set him free with plans to "capture" him and get jobs. Police Captain J.W. Duke,(who resembles a certain Western Movie star)and his first officer Pilgrim, get involved in the city wide chase along with Rae Fey and a host of others. The gorilla and the girl end up on top of the tallest building in Wichita, a Holiday Inn. It is full of clichés, spoofs, and a cast of truly memorable characters for a lot of viewing fun. If you laugh at the opening titles when it says "Filmed in SimianScope" then you'll laugh all the way thru the movie. We started in 1974 and released the movie in 1987. (ran out of money several times)If you can accept the fact that it is a guy in a gorilla suit (who by the way does not talk) you can enjoy the film. (a stream of consciousness voice does not mean the gorilla talks). Hey, it's a G rated movie. It was one of two released in 1987. The other one was a Benjie Movie. Take a chance. Bob Walterscheid
