It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

After the opening credits demonstrations of drunken style, Mang Fei is training with a drunken master. Cut to Wu Ma about the town. Escaping a beating he passes by Mang Fei. Cut again to a girl cooking. She is his girl and he explains he has been away the past month learning kung fu. His uncle gives him a reality check as to the value of one entire month of kung fu training. Next he gets involved in a tournament. Exposing his drunken style creates new enemies for his entire family.Wu Ma is one of the most famous faces in the history of Hong Kong cinema but not really a famous name, despite it being short and easy to pronounce. He had no martial arts or stunt background when he took the Shaw Brothers acting course in 1962. By 1970 he was directing. In the 1980s and until his death, his career shifted to prolific character actor. In my opinion his career was based on doing what already worked and surrounding himself with the right people such as Sammo Hung and Tsui Hark.Everything in this movie has been done before and done better. It failed to hold my attention and had I not intended to write a review I would have napped instead. This is only for hard core fans on a slow day.

HICCUP! BURP! HI-YAAAH! Feeling a little boozy? This movie will get you drunk in no time flat! Kung Fu of 8 Drunkards is an intense and great way to know the style of drunken fighting. Style vs. style is a way to throw off opponents, in a way, it kept him alive and kicking. HAHA! The master will torture and hound the student until the style is done right. This master will teach the pupil and torture him when he says "Do it again!" with slurriness in his speech. The student lives with cousin and an ungrateful uncle, who I wish to slap in his face! When he got hurt, the ungratefulness recesses in his brain. When will he ever open his eyes? Then there's this character named Monki, looks like one, has some fighting skills, when he got in the brawl in the game room. Gave the three goons black eyes which was very funny. Sometimes his judgment is fast, but he'll soon learn to understand later on. The fighter with the kinked neck who fought the guy really "Got Smashed" as Monki would say to the move his friend did. Everything in the movie was good, the gold and silver tigers were amazing even though, I knew they didn't stand a chance against The Drunken Fist. See this movie first, get drunk later. HAHAHA! Raing 3 out of 5 stars.

this movie is obviously a knock off of Jackie Chan's 1978 Classic Drunken Master. But it's actually a good kung fu movie, better than most, which is admittedly not saying much.Characters are easily sympathized and acting is decent. Dialog flows relatively well & doesn't stall & bore you like many Hong Kong Kung Fu flicks.Anyone watching 70's Kung Fu Movies for the characters/acting and dialog are setting themselves up for disappointment. How's the fighting?fight scenes are again quite good. Nothing will ever match Jackie Chan's choreography (DM is some of his best), but this Kung Fu Movie is still ahead of the pack.also, the requisite 'kung fu chic' in this movie is particularly appealing.

This movie had a lot of corny jokes in it, more than were really necessary. The fighting was kind of sparse and only decent. The main character only used one style of fighting, and that was the one taught to him by his constantly drunk master, the last person to know a certain form of drunken kung fu. There's a neat little intro to the movie that mentions the Shaolin monks who organized the different styles of kung fu into 96 or so different techniques. It said that kung fu was first used to imitate different animals around a cave fire, and that a kung fu expert used all of his power in his fingers. This was very helpful for explaining why so many fighting techniques are centered around one knuckle or the fingertips.This movie's plot was kind of weak. It was another of the "we are looking for this guy we thought we killed a number of years ago, but his style is showing up in a few places, so we will kill anyone involved." It has a protagonist who doesn't know any kung fu until his drunk master takes him in as his student, and in one month learns much more than most people would, even though he leaves his master from being tired of his strenuous exercises. He then manages to hold his own against formidable opponents, even using a bit of Jackie Chan urban weapon fighting, using barstools, benches and gambling rods to hold off attackers. The antagonist of the movie, though thought to be the guy with the dark sombrero hat, is really the girl's father, supposed head of the local evil group (every king fu movie has got one).Moderate dubbing, moderate plot, moderate fighting, moderate characters... only an moderate movie. An annoying master, and annoying and cheesy friend of the protagonist made the movie all the more moderate. I suggest you watch it if you can find it just for the experience in cheesy king fu movies. Good day gentlemen.-Scott-