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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Meng-Hwa Ho |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 03 January, 1999 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Miramax |
| MPAA RATING: | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-comedy |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 717951004758 |
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So atrocious its an instant classic Mighty Peking Man is literally a Hong Kong rip off of Dino DeLaurentis' own 76' remake of King Kong, making it a rip off of a rip off! It actually steals entire scenes from the movie! But who cares! The Sheena-like jungle girl is Playboy material HOT! And she is in danger the entire movie of losing her skimpy top! The Peking Man costume is bad, but certainly no worse than the multimillion dollar 40 foot tall Kong used in the 76' remake for all of 4 seconds, and the Peking man costume was made at a fraction of the cost. The fake helicopters and tanks, buildings, ect are no worse than anything in a Toho Godzilla flick. And the movie has a cheesy/sleazy 70's groove to it if you can dig, man. Worth the price of the DVD is the scene where "Sheena" and Johnny are falling in love in slow motion to a horrible "Mellow Gold" love song. If you though "Plan 9 from Outer Space" was the worst film ever, or the best of the "So bad they're great" watch the Peking Man with a bunch of intoxicated friends, and you will not be disappointed!
A CAMP-TRASH CLASSIC!
As a fan of schlocky, "so bad they're good" films, I have seen quite a few that simply amaze with their ineptness, from classics such as "Plan 9" and "Robot Monster" to more recent howlers such as "Lake Placid". However, nothing - and I mean nothing - could have prepared me fully for the experience of finally seeing "Mighty Peking Man". This film is an absolute camp-trash GOLDMINE; a cinematic abomination so astonishingly bad that it defies rational explanation. It literally must be seen to be believed! This is not a criticism, however; but rather an endorsement: "Mighty Peking Man" is punishingly hilarious; an unintentional laugh-riot of lame acting, atrocious dubbing, and inarguably the worst - the WORST - optical effects I have ever witnessed in a professional (and that's stretching the word to its outer limits) motion picture. The movie goes so far over the top that it borders on the psychedelic; indeed, copious amounts of mind-altering substances are probably required to get the full "Peking Man" experience. The film's grade-Z pleasures are too numerous to list, but would certainly start with Peking Man himself: a moth-eaten, googly-eyed, rubber-mouthed gorilla suit, from all appearances rented from a local costume shop and about as convincing. Then there's Evelyne Kraft, the "heroine", who, despite living in the wild jungle for 20 years, sports a perfect 1970's-era Farrah Fawcett layered hairdo, mascara, and a seemingly endless supply of lip gloss. Throw in a romance between Kraft and "Johnny", the hero (complete with a wretchedly awful - and brutally funny - slow motion "running through the fields" sequence as they "fall in love", while all the while the out-of-tune orchestra warbles on) and the oblogitory final battle between Peking Man and woefully obvious model helicopters (the strings supporting them fully visible) and you have the stuff of which cult midnight-movie dreams are made. Kudos to Quentin Tarantino for resurrecting this trashy gem, in widescreen no less! For those of you out there who relish so-unbelievably-bad-they're-cool films, put "Showgirls" on hold and give this one a go; you won't regret it. Now, Quentin, how about a reissue of "KISS meets the Phantom of the Park"?
KING KONG meets SHEENA
I'm honestly not sure whether to give this film one star because it's so poorly made or five stars just for it's sheer entertainment value. So I'm settling on four.
Here's the story: Hong Kong explorer Johnney is depressed ever since he found his girlfriend in bed with his brother. (If this happened today, they'd go on Jerry Springer.)
He is hired by a rich tycoon to go to a jungle and find a giant ape-god. Johnney goes to the jungle with some aides and soon after arriving they are beset upon by all sorts of perils. I know jungles aren't normally regarded as the safest of places, but this one seems especially dangerous. The extras get killed off left and right, making you wonder if it's the world's deadliest jungle, if these guys lack any kind of explorer training or experience whatsoever, or if exploring a jungle is like going off to war, where casualties are ineveitable. Eventually the survivors try to convince Johnney to give up and go home, but Johnney won't go until he's found what he's looking for. So during the night the others pack up and sneak off while he's asleep, in one of the film's few logical moments.
The next morning Johnney wakes up and finds himself alone. Then, in one of the movie's greatest moments, the title beast manages to sneak up on him and grab him from behind without him noticing! The monster is like 50 ft. tall, it's broad daylight, and Johnney's wide awake, yet somehow he didn't notice the creature was right behind him the whole time!
Later Johnney meets Samantha, a white woman whose plane crashed in the jungle when she was like 5 or 6 and whose parents were killed in the crash. Sam is now a grown woman in a jungle bikini who is friends with Peking Man. Natrually she and Johnney fall in love, and then he convinces her to take Peking Man and go back with him to Hong Kong.
You can probably guess what happens from here. If you happen to already own PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE and THE MIGHTY GORGA, put this one in your video collection alongside those two.