Product Description

Disgusted by the evil deeds of the ching emperor yung ching a group of top shaolin fighters team up and plot an attack on the forbidden city. But they must first defeat the palaces elite kung fu masters. Studio: Tai Seng Entertainment Release Date: 06/28/2005 Starring: Carter Wong Gia Ling Run time: 90 minutes Rating: Nr

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #106279 in DVD
• Released on: 2001-02-13
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Color, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 90 minutes

Customer Reviews

Great Movie, DVD Could Be Better
This is a fantastic movie, that is, if you like cheesy kung fu movies. The basic plot is that an evil Chinese ruler has a family killed (for one reason or another), however, two sisters escape the massacre with the help of a Shaolin monk. They grow up and seek revenge with the help of two of their Shaolin buddies.

The plot is not what's important in this film, the fighting is. Shaolin Invincibles features entertaining kung fu with a strange variety of opponents. The sisters and their pals, aside from fighting hordes of "normal" bad guys, fight GORILLAS! Yeah, you heard me... Gorillas! Kung Fu Fighting Gorillas at that! In addition, they fight two wizards that have extremely long tongues that they use as whips; really cheesy and really entertaining. Finally, the sisters do battle with a mutated/scarred old man who has one gigantic eyeball. Add all this together with a small amount of really fake gore and you've got yourself a winner.

The DVD itself has a few low points. First of all, and most obviously, is that this appears to have been transferred directly from the 1983 video-tape source material. This is apparent as that the "Ocean Shores" distibutor logo appears at the beginning of the film and in the lower left of the screen at one point during the movie. The picture quality is good, not outstanding. I didn't expect this film to be pain-stakingly re-mastered as if it were some film classic and it's not. Also, the trailer is not the Shaolin Invincibles trailer, but merely an advertisment for Tai Seng Entertainment's other kung fu movies.

In closing, this is a DVD worth having...Besides, who doesn't want to see KUNG FU FIGHTING MONKEYS!!! YEAH!!!

Everyone Was Kung Fu Fighting
I didn't exactly know what to expect from this weird movie. I picked up hoping to have a good time watching old school king fu, so I gave the flick a chance; results were that I did have a good time watching it but it wasn't exactly what i was expecting. The film combines kung fu with sword fighting; which is not bad, as a matter of fact it's very well choreographed. The only thing is that there are these recurring characters that ruin and kind of gives you mixed feelings about the flick.
for example; there's this scene where the two main characters are looking for this ruthless king; in the scene we have the king sitting down in forest when out of nowhere these gorillas pop up, and for some weird reason they know how to fight kung fu.

The whole movie is about these two young shoaling girls who are seeking revenge for the deaths of there family. It seems this king is responsible for the deaths. the plot isn't really important, what's important is the fight scenes which are quite descent, yet they are ruined once again by stupidity such as these weird long tongued fighting dudes that use there tongues to fight, anyway its hard and weird just explaining it. For sure you will laugh and enjoy the fight scenes just don't take it seriously. By the way the picture quality is average compared to other poor kung fu releases.

MY PERSONAL RATING: 3 OUT OF 5

Mindbendingly ridiculous old school kung fu classic!
Let me start the review by saying that this is terrible - a bad film on an even worse DVD. Its poorly dubbed bad sound quality is only outdone by its abysmal picture quality which gives us a scratched (more like run over by a truck!) full screen presentation of a widescreen film. So why in the world would I give this monstrosity 5 stars?!?!?

Three words - KUNG FU GORILLAS!

To be more accurate I should say, stunt guys in the worst $10 gorilla outfits ever, trained by wizards with 4 foot tongues that can be used as weapons, that fight two hot girls (including the drop dead gorgeous Doris Lung Chung-erh from the classic old school "Master of the Flying Guillotine") and are invincible except for the soft spots on their heads that projectile erupt blood. Carter Wong fights the wizards (and their tongues!), there are even more gorilla fights, and if you insist on some real kung fu in your kung fu movies, let me remind you that we not only have the talents of the aforementioned Carter Wong, we also have Jack Long and Delon 'Flash Legs' Tam from "The Hot, The Cool and The Vicious"!

Sadly there is no DVD with a better presentation of this cheesy kung fu classic, so this will have to do. Who knows, maybe it wouldn't be as fun if it was all cleaned up and shiny.

This is not a movie for uber-traditionalist martial arts fans who demand realism in the on screen fighting techniques and serious story lines, but if you are a fan of films like the equally over the top (but more serious) "Master of the Flying Guillotine", I think you will really have a lot of fun watching this film. A classic!