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The Legend of Drunken Master

	Our Price: $11.99 List Price: $14.99 Your Save: $ 3.00 ( 20% ) Sales Rank: #14430 (lower is better) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Dimension Starring: Jackie Chan, Ho-Sung Pak, Lung Ti, Anita Mui, Felix Wong Directed By: Jackie Chan, Chia-Liang Liu Avg. Customer Rating:
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Brand: Buena Vista Home Video EAN: 0786936151268 Format: Anamorphic Manufacturer: Dimension Release Date: 2001-03-13 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.25
The Legend of Drunken Master Description Jackie Chan return becomes and is able to fend off numerous attacks and perform incredible stunts. Aided by his hilarious stepmother and friends, Hong faces the challenge of protecting valuable Chinese history and saving his family honor.s to the role that made him a star in 1979's "Drunken Master." Chinese folklore hero Wong Fei Hong discovers a smuggling ring, orchestrated by the British Government, to transport valuable Chinese artifacts out of the country. Hong must use his unique style of martial arts, "Drunken Boxing," to fight the conspirators and salvage the Chinese treasures before it
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The Legend of Drunken Master customer reviews: Drunken Master This movie is one of Jackie Chan's finest. The action was great, and so was the story. Why o Why do we suffer so I love Jackie Chan and own most of his original HK movies. I have so much wanted them to migrate to blu-ray in their original form and from HK Flix we are starting to now get that. But why o why is it always a compromise with us fans? If we buy US versions we get bad dubbing and unoriginal soundtracks and horrible criminal MiramAXE edit cuts to Jackie's films. If we buy HK versions we get no choice of English dubbing and varied quality of transfer from good to down right horrible on some disks. The Weinstien Bros (Dragon Dynasty) had it right with their remastered DVDs of PS1 and 2, but what about the rest of the catalogue? Is there no sense in the film industry that these films need to be preserved in the best possible way as originally presented? Unedited, remastered, and transferred in the highest quality to take full advantage of what our blessed blu-ray has to offer? Is there not demand enough from us fans for that? We all agree these are FANTASTIC FILMS we want to watch again and again and again. Why are we fans complaining here and on many other film review comment pages the video quality of this film is no better than the DVD version? Why is there no choice for English dubbing on the uncut HK version? Are video editors uncaring, plain stupid, or just out for a quick buck? Hell even Jackie complains! For goodness sake we finally have the technology and capability to truly show these films at home as they were seen in the theatre and instead we get half of what we want, and 1/2 of what is capable. SIGH SIGH SIGH!!! I remember when George Lucas remastered Star Wars and talked of the state of the quality of the film they found to work with. How it was falling apart and fading despite its relatively young age. He and Steven Spielberg said it was lucky they caught it in time and rescued master copies of the original film. Luckily they had the money to remaster them and clean them up for us. Will we ever be so lucky with Jackie's films? I hang my head in dismay. Dear Dragon Dynasty, Dear Kam & Ronson, Dear MiramAXE! please please please listen to your customers; listen to us fans; Give Us JACKIE AS HE WAS MEANT TO BE! Take extra care when you transfer to Blu-ray, clean the film at least, and work to preserve the detail...use the more than adequate space on a blu-ray disk to include multiple SPOKEN languages; STOP STOP STOP CENSORING and give us the UNCUT VERSIONS WITH ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACKS! For Gods sake people this is the 21st century and we can do it. When you buy a Blu-ray it should much much crisper than the DVD version, it should be uncut, it should have loads of features and choices, it should be the ultimate home theater experience not some half baked expensive edited, unadorned transfer of some off the shelf copy. I WISH JACKIE WOULD TAKE CONTROL AND USE HIS POWER TO PRESERVE IN PRISTINE FORM HIS FILMS AS THEY WERE MEANT TO BE instead of this hit and miss that has always plagued his wonderful films! Excellent movie, bad blu-ray. Do I even need to go into detail about how bad of a job they did here? Nearly everyone who's reviewed the movie has thrown a fit over how this isn't THE version of the movie that we want or deserve. And I'm with them on that, but face it- if The Legend of Drunken Master didn't get proper release by this generation, I don't think we'll be getting it for a while. Yes, this is basically the dvd version (which was basically the vhs version) put on the blu-ray format. It isn't very good, and not worth buying if you already have the dvd. Heck, go buy the dvd instead since it's a bit cheaper. But if you like to have all your movies in the current format, AND haven't seen or bought the movie yet, then I'd recommend the blu-ray release. Wait, did I just contradict myself? If you haven't seen it yet, The Legend of Drunken Master is a sequel to Drunken Master. Wong Fei-Hung, the master of 'drunken boxing' (as they call it in this dub), gets into a bit of a mix-up with another person while on a train, and his father's luggage gets mixed up. Soon after, everyone gets into a mess with a group of suits who are pretty much stealing China's history, and selling all kinds of Chinese antiques to museums, earning more money by making people travel to their country just to see them. Once he discovers this, Wong sets out to put an end to this, but not without getting a little help, and causing a few problems along the way. Not only does his father oppose fighting (especially Wong's fighting style), but he gets involved with the suits as well thanks to Wong. No, the plot isn't very exciting at all, and honestly, it gets boring at times. Blame it either on the English dub for not being very enthusiastic for about half the voice actors, or blame it on the typical 'we need to save our country'-esque storyline. This movie's all about stunts and fight scenes, of which there's a good amount. Jackie Chan never impressed me much until I saw this movie, and he has nothing but my full respect now. The things he's able to pull of in this movie rarely get reproduced in film or television, or martial arts in the USA even. A lot of the supporting cast that take part in the fight scenes are good too, even a Tae Kwon Do expert (a style that I loathe) managed to make my jaw drop a few times. There's some funny comedic bits scattered about, but the pacing is ruined by the oh-so-boring British Embassy parts, despite being key to the plot. Either way, if you're looking for a good marial arts movie, Jackie Chan will make this entertaining for you, especially since this was when he could really move. More recent martial arts movie fans might also get a kick out of seeing the Axe Gang- who were later resurrected by Stephen Chow for his masterpiece, Kung Fu Hustle. Now for the bad- the picture and audio quality. Again, this is basically the dvd release put on blu-ray. There's grain, dirt and artifacts on the print, but it's not THAT bad. Some people are making it sound like this was taken from an old theater projector reel and converted to blu-ray. To be honest, there were only a few times when I noticed lines and grain to the point where it disctracted me, and that was for a second. The audio...yes, it's still the English dub, though you also have the option of French or Spanish. I personally thought the Spanish was much better than the English track. Sub-titles are also in English, Spanish, French, Polish and Portuguese. The movie doesn't make much use of the surround sound on any of these, and just makes you wonder why Disney even bothered putting this out without restoring or upgrading anything. Special features? Well, there's the always enjoyable blooper reel during the end credits, but other than that, it's just a standard interview with Jackie around when the movie was coming out in theaters here. He goes on about how much fun it was- nothing too insightful, and it's short at less than 10 minutes. Nothing about the different fighting styles seen in the movie, nothing about how much the Drunken Master movies helped his career in the US, no look back with some of the stars, nothing. Again, if you don't have it already and are sticking with blu-ray for your movies, only then can I recommend this. Otherwise, stick with the dvd and keep waiting for a good version to come out. But look how long we've waited for that version to come out. I'm starting to wonder if things were lost over time, and if we're just plain never going to get it. Best Kung Fu movie ever ! Simply put it is the best Jackie Chan Kung fu ever. The last film Jackie really put some effort into the fight scenes and stunts. Legend of the Drunken Master This movie is great! If you love Jackie Chan, this will become one of your favorites. Although he is younger, in this movie he shows many different styles. The great thing about this movie is that it is absolutely hysterical too! The woman who plays his stepmom is the funniest character in the movie. You will not be disappointed!
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