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Good Kung Fu Comedies?


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For whatever reason I like my Kung Fu with a side of humor. Recently I've found films such as Millionaire's Express, Kung Fu Scholar, and Spooky Encounters to be really entertaining.

Can you help me out with some more recommendations (doesn't necessarily have to be a classic)?

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Kennedy Il Sung

Wheels on Meals, Dragons Forever, and Prodigal Son have some good comedy.

I was also thinking of making a topic like this because I also have been getting in KF comedies, so I'll be interested in what others rec.

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Besides the aforementioned, here are some of my favorites:

Snake in the Eagle's Shadow

Drunken Master

Magnificent Butcher

Warriors Two

Knockabout

Odd Couple

Dirty Tiger, Crazy Frog

His Name is Nobody

By Hook or by Crook

Dead and the Deadly

The Victim

Project A

My Lucky Stars

Kickboxer (Yuen Biao)

Shaolin Prince

Fearless Hyena

Spooky Encounters II

Martial Arts of Shaolin

And although it wasn't supposed to be funny, Game of Death II was so hilariously awful it has to count as a comedy.

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Morgoth Bauglir

Buddha’s Palm and Dragon Fist

5 Fighters From Shaolin

Secret Rivals 3 aka Northern Kicks, Southern Fists

Goose Boxer

Shaolin vs Lama

Shadow Ninja aka Killer in White

Kung Fu Zombie

Love on Delivery

Forbidden City Cop

Last Hero in China aka Claws of Steel (English dub)

36 Deadly Styles

Hell’s Windstaff

Dance of the Drunken Mantis

Skinny Tiger Fatty Dragon

Pantyhose Hero

The Young Master (original English dub 90 minute cut)

Shaolin Rescuers

Dirty Ho

Return to the 36th Chamber

Disciples of the 36th Chamber

Also some that are so bad they are good-

Thunder Ninja Kids in the Golden Adventure

Impossible Kid

Ninja Terminator

Superfights

Invincible Super Guy

Swordsman with Umbrella

Shaolin Invincibles

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Off the top of my head, I'd recommend My Young Auntie, Royal Tramp I and II, Fong Sai Yuk I and II (not pure comedy, but a good amount) and Love On Delivery.

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Shaolin Chamber 36

One movies that had me in tears, was Dragon Lee's Martial Monks of Shaolin Temple!!

Must See! One of the GREATEST (funniest) VILLAINS ever!

Knockabout is a very good film all around, comedy and some FU-TASTIC Kung Fu!

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Top of the list: Yuen Clan shenanigans: Taoism Drunkard, Shaolin Drunkard, Miracle Fighters

Mr. Vampire

My Young Auntie

Mismatched Couples

Pantyho Heroes

All of Jackie Chan stuff, I especially like Young Master, Project A, and Miracles

Wing Chun (Michelle Yeoh)

Stephen Chow stuff: Flirting Scholar, King of Beggar, Kung Fu hustle

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ShaOW!linDude

Wow, there's some good stuff on here. I'd add:

Enter the Fat Dragon ---- Sammo Hung is funny and fu-y in this

Twinkle, Twinkle, Lucky Stars ---- Chan, Hung, Biao (you'll love the end fight where Hung uses tennis rackets)

The Iceman Cometh --- Yuen Biao has some really funny moments in this

Miracles --- it's been mentioned already but to me this is one of Chan's best

Shaolin Soccer --- no kung fu comedy collection is complete without this

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Wow, there's some good stuff on here. I'd add:

Enter the Fat Dragon ---- Sammo Hung is funny and fu-y in this

How could I forget that one. Good movie, wish someone would clean it up.

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sifu iron perm

Young master!!!!!

shaolin temple 2 aka kids from shaolin (jet li)..has some funny moments..

magnificent butcher

winners & sinners/my lucky..

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TibetanWhiteCrane

Good Kung Fu Comedies..... isn't that an oxymoron?? Well, whatever.....

I like

FIVE SUPERFIGHTERS

MAGNIFICENT BUTCHER

eeeh, can't think of any others.....

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Good Kung Fu Comedies..... isn't that an oxymoron?? Well, whatever......

OK, I've been here a long time and I've never asked...but what is it with the hardcore fans' general dislike of kung fu comedies?

Is it the Cantonese sense of humor?

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TibetanWhiteCrane

It's not about canto comedy or not. It's about funny comedy versus unfunny comedy. And I personally just happen to find the comedy in the old school KF flicks mindnumbingly unfunny, for the most part! Plus, from 78 to around 83 they made like a thousand flicks with the same damn unfunny jokes, gags and characters!

I have nothing against canto comedy at all, it just has to be funny!

The disco scene in Carry On Pickpocket.... now that is some shit!

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The disco scene in Carry On Pickpocket.... now that is some shit!

Yeah, it is! So is the bit Sammo does in OWL VS BOMBO with the mannequin.

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Cognoscente

Lackey and the Lady Tiger is a good one.

On the flip side, The Young Master set a new low for Kung Fu comedies in terms of the comedy. Jackie tried too hard to be funny with this movie so he went overboard with the casting, so we get a fat guy, a guy with a mohawk, a crossed-eyed guy, a guy whose face is the result of a stroke, and a boy urinating into a stream.

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