A Jackie Chan Movie Classic
Added 7/20/2009
There's "American Movie Classics" around....well, how about "Jackie Chan Movie Classics"? Wheels on Meals is the first time all three of the opera school brothers (Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao) starred in a major film together. If you're used to the "Rush Hour" Jackie Chan, be prepared at how good the younger Jackie Chan looked.
Wheels on Meals is one of my favorites for the action and the comedy. The story line is not exactly the most coherent, but who cares about the plot when it comes to most Jackie Chan films?
In my opinion, this film began a run of films that featured Jackie Chan at his best. Other films to look at include Project A, Police Story, and Drunken Master 2. I would suggest that people get the original Hong Kong cuts of the films and not the American dubs that were released a few years ago.
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AWESOME movie
Added 12/28/2008
Filmed in Spain in 1984, this movie has it all- Jackie with his two 'brothers', jaw-dropping stunts and action, great comedy. This is a must-have for even the slightest Chan fan, seeing the three brothers in action together doing what they do best is unbeatable. This film has a great plot, and was filmed around the time that Chan was getting married and expecting his son, Jaycee. Benny the Jet plays a somewhat large role here, and he and Jackie show off probably the greatest/most entertaining fighting sequence ever filmed. If you only own one Jackie chan movie, this should be it.
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Great classic kung fu movie!
Added 7/14/2008
If you want some old school Jackie Chan action this is the movie to get. Jackie is at his best when Sammo Hung does the fight choreography. This movie has possibly one of the best fights ever filmed between Jackie and Benny "The Jet" Urquidez. Definitely worth owning!
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A great big pile of wonderful cheese
Added 9/25/2007
I can't give this five stars, although I really enjoyed it, because it's one of those comedies that's funny but not really very good in terms of script/acting/direction/etc. However, if you want to see Jackie Chan run around acting silly and getting into semi-exciting fights, this is the movie or you.
For better Hong-Kong action/comedy, you'll do better with Chan's more recent (but pre-americanized) films like Drunken Master or any of the SuperCops.
Still, it was a hit at our last Samurai Film Fest, where it followed Seven Samurai - Criterion Collection - 3-Disc Remastered Edition and other Kurosawa-seriousness nicely.
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Benny the Jet Urquidez vs. Jackie Chan part 1
Added 8/23/2007
This is an insanely fun movie starring the 3 brothers- Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao and Jackie Chan. Sammo stars as a private investigator who is hired to look for a woman. Yuen Biao and Jackie Chan work together selling fast food from their van. The woman Sammo is looking for is a pickpocket and is on the run from some goons. She is saved by Jackie and Yuen Biao and ends up living with them. The movie takes place in Spain and the woman finds out that her father was a Count and now that he is dead his evil brother will inherit everything if she can't claim it for herself. The 3 brothers help her out by battling the goons so that she can claim her inheritance. Sammo fights the main villain while Yuen Biao and Jackie fight his 2 top henchmen. Biao's fight with Keith Vitali is good, and the fight between Jackie and Benny Urquidez is amazing. There is some undercranking involved, but these guys are throwing punches and kicks so fast that only a few other movies can match its intensity. The choreography is breathtaking. Benny Urquidez is so fast that one of his kicks blows out a row of candles. There are no special effects or trick photography used to achieve this shot. So Jackie is lucky that he got out of the way of that kick! This fight always gets me pumped up.
So the final fights are outstanding, and the rest of the action scenes are very brief but still highly entertaining with incredible stuntwork, including some great car and motorcycle stunts. If you like this movie, then you have to see Dragons Forever. Benny Urquidez and Jackie Chan have an even better fight than the one in this movie.
4.5/5
I have the Hong Kong Legends version and it great picture quality and awesome interviews with Benny Urquidez, Keith Vitali, Sammo and Yuen Biao. The commentary from Bey Logan is very interesting and one of the things he talks about is why this movie was strangely titled Wheels on Meals.
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