Subterranean slapstick comedy by Antonio Margheriti
Sophia Loren's husband Carlo Ponti also wanted to benefit from the success of the films with Bud Spencer and Terence Hill and produced this slapstick film with two lookalikes in Hong Kong, Sydney, Singapore and Bangkok. The film, released in 1973, is also known as "Ming, Ragazzi!" and "Mr. Hercules against Karate".
The two extremely strong idiots Dino (Alberto Terracina) and Parsifal (Fernando Bilbao) are so clumsy at their work in Australia that they are promptly fired by their Saxon (!) boss. Full of frustration, they first beat an entire rugby team (including stunt legends Giovanni Cianfriglia and Pietro Torrisi) to a pulp and at the same time dismantle the pub. But their owner is so enthusiastic about the dynamite fists of the two snout polishers that he hires them to free his son from the clutches of an evil kung fu master (George Wang) in Hong Kong. Said and done! The two whipping boys fly to Hong Kong and really stir things up there. Of course, the little Kung Fu fighters have no chance against bells and steam hammers...
You can already tell that this film belongs to the category of the most favorite aberrations of taste, also known in the English-speaking world as "guilty pleasure". Just don't take the whole thing too seriously! There was no sequel with this brawling duo, even if the fights are definitely funny. But the rest...Mr. Ponti will probably have been left with his money's worth.
The Taiwanese actor George Wang (1918-2015), who was also beaten up by Antonio Sabato and Brad Harris in "Questa volta ti faccio ricco" (1974), does a pretty good job as the nasty antagonist.
Sophia Loren's husband Carlo Ponti also wanted to benefit from the success of the films with Bud Spencer and Terence Hill and produced this slapstick film with two lookalikes in Hong Kong, Sydney, Singapore and Bangkok. The film, released in 1973, is also known as "Ming, Ragazzi!" and "Mr. Hercules against Karate".
The two extremely strong idiots Dino (Alberto Terracina) and Parsifal (Fernando Bilbao) are so clumsy at their work in Australia that they are promptly fired by their Saxon (!) boss. Full of frustration, they first beat an entire rugby team (including stunt legends Giovanni Cianfriglia and Pietro Torrisi) to a pulp and at the same time dismantle the pub. But their owner is so enthusiastic about the dynamite fists of the two snout polishers that he hires them to free his son from the clutches of an evil kung fu master (George Wang) in Hong Kong. Said and done! The two whipping boys fly to Hong Kong and really stir things up there. Of course, the little Kung Fu fighters have no chance against bells and steam hammers...
You can already tell that this film belongs to the category of the most favorite aberrations of taste, also known in the English-speaking world as "guilty pleasure". Just don't take the whole thing too seriously! There was no sequel with this brawling duo, even if the fights are definitely funny. But the rest...Mr. Ponti will probably have been left with his money's worth.
The Taiwanese actor George Wang (1918-2015), who was also beaten up by Antonio Sabato and Brad Harris in "Questa volta ti faccio ricco" (1974), does a pretty good job as the nasty antagonist.