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"The Mighty Peking Man" its a very enjoyable and entertaining "King Kong" rip-off, its exactly what you would expect out of an exploitative version of "King Kong", and its probably one of the best "King Kong" rip-offs out there, its a really fun monster flick.The special effects may look cheesy at times, but they are really good for this kind of movie. The characters are decent and they are likable, the villain is a total sleazeball, which is always great. I never felt bored while watching this film, its very entertaining.The editing may be a little too awkward at times, but its nothing too distracting. I watched this movie with the Spanish dub, so I don't know if the English dub is any good, but the Spanish version its OK.I would recommend it to those who are looking for a fun and cheesy monster movie, it has gore and nudity, and its well-made (for this kind of film).

Holy Kong-Knockoff Power! This is bad! But it's also glorious! (and yeah I felt the need for more ape madness after Kong: Skull Island, but that's neither here nor there).So let's address something right out the gate: Evelyne Kraft is a (conventionally) attractive blonde 'hottie' woman... and she and her character are treated to one of those most over the top depictions of sexism I've seen for a movie like this. It's almost to the point that I wondered early on after the movie introduces "Samantha" (yes, it's her name, but I'm using quotes anyway), in her outfit that is so skimpy that it seems to be teasing what is acceptable as a "family" movie if the director was doing a parody of skimpy girl-in-almost-nothing clothing movies. Seriously, if you have a problem with your kid seeing even the tiniest bit of breast, let alone nipple, in your ultra-cheese monster movie knock-offs from the 70's, you've been warned.And yet I'm not sure if it is a parody though, because there is a stretch of film here - oh I'd say about ten minutes, give or take another ten - where the movie practically stops so that our main guy Johnnie Fang (Danny Lee, a Bruce Lee surrogate of sorts, ideal for a Kongsploitation) from literally frolicking, at 60 frames per second, with Samantha along with her 'pets' being the tigers and leopards and elephants. It's almost as if the filmmakers somehow saw the early rushes of the movie ROAR and thought they could do one better - or simply less awkward and more silly - by having it that this woman Samantha, who was a little girl when her parents died in a plane crash (she doesn't scream or yell at all about this as a little girl by the way, she's totally placid) and then 'Mighty Peking' (that's not his real name, don't ask me what it was now) raised her as if she was his own... which included specially made clothing to just barely cover her lady parts.In other words, this director I think means all of this sincerely, and if there is a tongue in cheek it's so firmly planted it's wagging out the side of his mouth (and as realistically as one of the toy cars or tanks that make the toys in the Godzilla movies look like ILM creations). But this isn't a downside; on the contrary, The Mighty Peking Man is a fantastic monster movie when you take it on its ridiculously stupid terms. It's no wonder that Tarantino was involved in its re-release - though I recall, from owning the VHS years back of the Rolling Thunder release, that he didn't do an intro to this like the other films, for shame Quentin! - as it certainly appeals to what he (as well as I) want in a ridiculous Asian monster movie that sometimes is in India and sometimes is in Hong Kong.There's an affection I can't shake off for this kind of movie-making, for all of its dopeyness and all of the bad dubbing and all of the nonsense from the villain of the film (who sometimes wears some amazingly sparkly t-shirts as he plots his 'we must get to Hong Kong or else' and 'we must fill up the stadium' and 'oh, I must rape you now' moments... yeah, that happens) and how completely wild the climax of the movie gets, which seems to last for about 20 minutes. This is cinema that involves mattes and rear-screen projection and those shots where it's clearly processed to where you can see the black lines separating parts of the screen from the foreground and the background, and you can see the man inside the ape suit's skin around his eyes. And with all of this, there's some work and skill put into this cheese... at points.Sure, there are times, especially early on, shots don't cut well together, and the animal actors look probably doped up to the gills. And through it all, every actor plays it completely straight, and so every irresistibly nutty beat is sold all the more. On top of all of this, the ending gets surprisingly dramatic and tragic, as if Meng Hua-Ho has to top how sad and tragic it got at the end of King Kong (or the 76 King Kong too, can't forget that, which I could bet this is as much a rip-off of, probably more, since that was a fresh blockbuster at the time). Like, the poster that you see for this movie, it's one of those times that's NOT a reaction, there really IS a leopard or cheetah or whichever that the lady of the movie just has around her shoulders and back like it's a pet, and there's nothing at all seen unusual about this by Mr. Johnnie.(oh, and there's also a teary subplot involving Johnnie being cheated on by his long time girlfriend and then he goes away and comes back with the blonde white lady and then his ex is jealous and sad and oh neverf****ingmind).

"Mighty Peking Man" is not a movie one can just stumble upon after a particularly hard day and hope to enjoy as a straight-laced monster movie. You have to go into it knowing it's shoddily made, knowing you'll be roaring with laughter more often than you'll be oohing and awing. It deserves to be viewed on a Sunday morning following a partytastic night out with a coupla friends, after a marathon of Prehistoric Glamazon Huntress "MADtv" sketches. You must be in a certain euphoric mood to have your intelligence vomited on, after all, and "Mighty Peking Man" requires a viewer with the IQ of a gnat.Granted, you most likely don't have the IQ of a gnat; I know I shouldn't be recommending bad movies to you, but if you were going to die tomorrow and your final wish was to watch one final bad movie, you may as well pick "Mighty Peking Man". It isn't Jack Hill bad (unpleasant, sorta kinda humorless); it is Ed Wood, Claudio Fragasso bad, unwittingly awful but so good at being awful that even Russ Meyer, post-viewership, might take a minute from objectifying nubile young woman and pat himself on the back for actually being good at what he does. We can agree that "Mighty Peking Man" is garbage, but it is successful in one (one) thing it does: it set out to be a cheap "King Kong" knockoff, and it doesn't just succeed, it prevails, as a cheap "King Kong" knockoff.The film follows a group of Asian explorers trudging through the strenuous jungles of India in hopes to find the Mighty Peking Man, a legendary (and massive) ape-like creature who stalks the territory with reckless abandon. Leading the way is Johnny (Danny Lee), a man still recovering from the infidelities of his ex-fiancée. Moments into the trip does Johnny get separated from the group; near instantly, he is almost killed by the Peking Man himself, until — WAIT! — buxom wild woman Samantha (Evelyne Kraft) comes to the rescue. In a terribly conceived flashback sequence, it is revealed that, as a little girl, Samantha's parents were killed in an airplane accident. In the years since, she has attended to a rustically decorated cave, and, more or less, has considered her ape pal to be a brother, a father.Johnny quickly falls in love with her, but he can't just go back home and claim her as his bride: he also has to bring the ape back to Hong Kong by the force of Lu Tiem (Feng Ku), a ruthless promoter. And just when things start beginning to look like "King Kong", coincidences start to tread into territories of unparalleled duplication, right up until the film ends in a predicted showdown atop a helicopter swarmed skyscraper."Mighty Peking Man" has more of a fascination with Evelyne Kraft than its titular monster, obsessing over the heaving possibilities of a nip-slip (she wanders around in a sure-to-be taped-on animal skin bikini top akin to Lil' Kim's '99 VMAs outfit), obsessing over slow- motion sequences where she gets to make orgasmic faces at the most cringeworthy of times (like when she gets a snake bite a few inches to the left of her crotch and Johnny must suck the poison out).But alas, "Mighty Peking Man" isn't high art; at times, it works more as schlocky (if not, accidental) comedy, and it's impossible to be anything less than shallowly amused. Perhaps the film didn't realize it was terrible while it was being made. But once again, any filmmaker that figures a myriad of doll house sized "sets" or an abundance of horrifying green screen special effects suggests anything resembling quality can't possibly be sane. "Mighty Peking Man" wanted to capitalize on the "King Kong" craze, economically and efficiently; and for all its appalling productional decisions (and I mean appalling), it works. Barely.

This ripoff of "King Kong" has got to be one of the funniest movies that I've ever seen, just because of how it never takes itself seriously. When a Hong Kong magnate sets out on an expedition to find a prehistoric ape in India, he and the others find not only the ape but also a scantily clad woman (Evelyne Kraft) who's known the big guy ever since her plane crashed in the jungle many years earlier. This of course means that "Xing xing wang" - called "The Mighty Peking Man" in English - is really an excuse to show off the woman's body. And what a body! I bet that many a teenage boy went to see this movie just to ogle the hot babe and get as horny as possible.Anyway, this is a total exploitation flick, so it makes sense that Quentin Tarantino brought it to DVD. Any image that you have of corny '70s cinema can be found here. A real treat in every way. You're sure to like it. Especially the blonde gal in the skimpy bikini, natch.