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...oh...dear...

posted 16 years ago by CthulhuKaamos
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is all i have to say.
Why in gods name were Shaolin monks doing the robot? Why the *beep* did they break into song...no less-late 80's musical montages? Why were inanimate wooden training dolls consciously assaulting a bald white kid that resembles Vanilla Ice?

...perhaps most shocking of all: what misguided individual had enough faith in this steaming turd to invest money into its production? (it looks like it ACTUALLY had some semblance of a budget)

...on the plus side the choreography was actually pretty decent.

[–] AlbertV79 13 years ago

The inanimate wooden dolls were based on a test of skill back in the old days when prospective Shaolin monks took on 108 "wooden men". A perfect example of this method was used in an early Jackie Chan film entitled SHAOLIN WOODEN MEN.

As for the Shaolin monks doing the robot and song bit...it was because the lead character of Drew was teaching the monks his brand of culture, and as a result, lead to one hell of a culture shock.

The choreography was done by Corey Yuen, who later directed THE TRANSPORTER and was martial arts choreographer on the TRANSPORTER trilogy as well as working as Jet Li's choreographer on almost all of his Hollywood films (except THE FORBIDDEN KINGDOM).