Anna in Kung Fu Land

Description

Pop superstars Ekin Cheng (The Storm Riders, The Duel) and Miriam Yeung (Love Undercover 1 and 2) star in this delightful kung fu comedy with a special appearance by legendary Japanese kung fu star Yasuaki Kurata! When the unofficial Japanese branch of Shaolin Temple is invited to a kung fu exhibition in Hong Kong, the branch's head monk decides to send his illegitimate daughter/ Hollywood kung fu star wannabe Anna instead. Thinking that this will be her perfect chance to become famous, Anna gladly accepts the invitation, only to realize that she's not the only one that has the American dream. When Anna loes a film audition the day before the exhibition, she vows to perfect her kung fu and defeat her competitors.

Customer Reviews:

Wasted a good premise.......2006-01-17

The movie starts with a good premise: Elkin Cheng works for an ad agency and organizes a Kung-Fu tournament to promote a health drink. In the process, he needs to recruit Miriam Yeung, the daughter of a Kung-Fu master, to enter the contest. However, the movie then turns into a trite plot of Elkin Cheng having two girl friends (his boss' daughter and Miriam) and trying to hide one from the other. The movie missed the opportunity to develop interesting, fun characters for the tournament's various Kung-Fu specialists. Instead, we get dumb characters who are only mildly amusing. SPOILER: Miriam finds out that Elkin is a two-timer, and channels her anger to win the tournament by imagining Elkin's face on her opponent. The DVD has Mandarin and Cantonese audio tracks, with Chinese and very poorly translated English subtitles.

Bad Subtitles..... Drippy Plot.......2004-07-02

Okay, I'm a big fan of Ekin Cheng's. I own numerous DVD's and audio CD's (he is a singer as well as a movie star), but I though Anna in Kung Fu land was low budget and quite frankly, the worst Cheng movie I've seen to date. Cheng stars as an advertising executive whose company hosts a martial arts competition in order to advertise its health drink. Cheng travels to Tokyo to recruit a famous martial artist. Instead he recruits his daughter, Anna.

Cheng, who already has a girlfriend, hits on Anna which convinces her to come to China to compete. Thus begins a round of 'romantic comedy' silliness which seemed flat and stale.

Cheng usually doesn't play annoying characters, but I felt he was a bit of a cad in this one. Why would he want Anna, when he already has a beautiful girlfriend back in China? His reasons and motivations were quite silly. The other marital artist characters were just silly stereotypes and the ending made no sense whatsoever.

The subtitles were atrocious and filled with misspellings and bad translations. For instance, there is a scene where an American actor says: "Wait, what are you doing?" and the English subtitle translates this: "Okay, go ahead." Say what? Really, really bad.

If you MUST see this, be prepared for some nice eye candy, but bad acting and a super silly disappointing plot.

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