Underplayed Gems

Movie... In Your Face (1990)

Movie... In Your Face poster
Original title
Movie... In your face
Directed by
Joseph Butcher, David Merwin
Genre
parody film
Runtime
1h 25m
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This 1990 comedy takes a 1984 Hong Kong martial arts movie and replaces its original audio with a new English soundtrack. Stand-up comic Tommy Sledge narrates the film as a hard-boiled detective, turning the action into a feature-length farce.

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What happens

Movie... In Your Face is a 1990 comedy film, mostly consisting of a redubbed Hong Kong movie. In the style of movies like What's Up, Tiger Lily?, this movie was "produced" by replacing the original sound track of a 1984 Hong Kong movie — Ma hou pao or Crazy Kung Fu Master — with an English language sound track written to make the movie into a feature-length farce. Stand-up comic Tommy Sledge narrates the movie in his usual "hard-boiled detective" persona. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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