Why so much hype?

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

As a kid, I could never get fully interested in this. Later I realized why. The plots were shallow and plastic; the presentation was childish and simplistic (even for a grade-schooler like me); the animation was flat and boring; the dialogue was uninteresting; and worst of all, it perpetuated a number of cultural stereotypes that, while relatively common at the time, have come to be very distasteful and embarrassing to me -- I just didn't know it at the time.By comparison, Warner Brothers (Bugs Bunny, etc.) were FAR more entertaining and witty. It even introduced a couple of generations to classical music and opera!Hong Kong Phooey is one cartoon series that should be relegated to the scrap-heap of history. Give me Warner Brothers ANY day.

I ONLY gave this an 8/10 because the series was to short. this rating reflects Hanna-Barbera more than the actual series.HKP was short lived..shorter than dare I say Roger Ramjet. Someone new to the series an old to mind might not appreciate the use of imagination in Hong Kong Phooey as much as a fresh clean 3 year old mind does.The 1st an 2nd seasons of Scooby Doo is excellent example of a classic cartoon but yet to scary for my 3 year old. where as Hong Kong phooey is not.I was very surprised to find out that Richard Dawson voiced many characters on this short lived series.

Ugghhh!!! The 1970s were an abysmal period for cartoons. They were terribly animated and were written to appeal only to very young kids and incredibly stupid people. And, the king of this genre at the time was Hanna-Barbera--who made a huge fortune peddling 4th-rate cartoons to kids. The networks loved it because the cartoons were so cheap to produce and with so many rotten cartoons on, the standards were pretty low. While I was a kid in the 70s, I lost interest very fast thinks to cartoons like Speed Buggy and Hong Kong Phooey. They were just mind-numbingly bad--unfunny and devoid of anything that seemed like quality! If you think a karate chopping dog could be funny, then you have NOT seen this cartoon! Watch this only at your own risk--you have been warned.

Oh, I wish I could've been hiding in the opium smoke that afternoon Hanna and Barbera dreamed up Hong Kong Phooey, the idiot janitor dog who leads a double life.The noted Chinese actor Scatman Crothers played the kung fu fighting Shih-tzu with a lot of pep, swirling around in more racist Asian stereotypes than a contemporary Chinese laundry soap commercial (let me refresh your memory: 'my husband , some hotshot!' And the unforgettable: 'ancient Chinese secret, huh?!').But at least the acting was superb. Undoubtedly, Crothers is best remembered for this challenging role as Phooey. When Jack Nicholson rested his axeblade in Crothers' spine in 'the Shining,' who among us didn't spit out popcorn and sputter 'my god, he just killed Hong Kong Phooey!' Some things about this show touched viewers very deeply. How many times have you been caught humming the catchy theme song - 'Hong Kong Phooey, Number One Super Guy' - as you waited for your laundry to finish? Or considered changing into more comfortable clothes in the office filing cabinet? Or wondered if enough tassels and Chinatown detailing would turn your own Honda Civic into a Phooeymobile? Didn't you also want to date Rosemary, the police switchboard operator? Don't you wish you had someone like Spot in your life - someone to do all your work, solve all your problems and let you take all the credit?Hong Kong Phooey was, by all measures, a real jerk. Really vain and pretty clueless. I never had a lot of respect for him. He was not the sort of guy I would be friends with. He was the sort of person into whose drink you'd put your cigarette ashes when he wasn't looking. He wasn't from Hong Kong, solved no crimes and really didn't know Kung Fu. He was a real fraud. I guess he had dreams and hopes for himself, but so did Jabberjaw. And Jabberjaw, let's not forget it, could at least play the drums.