DVD sleeve blurb:
When a fung fu film title includes animals, it usually refers to animal kung fu styles used in the film. In the case of Killer of Snakes, Fox of Shaolin the animals are actually characters in the film.
They're not actually character per se. The main characters are two families of shape-shifting kung fu experts, with the snake people on one side and the foxes on the other, a weird Hatfield & McCoy feud. One of the Snake folks wants to marry a Fox daughter, but both she and her father are very against it. A fight ensues, into which stumbles mere mortal bumpkin Carter Wong. He gets injured by the snake guy, who gets chased off by a storm brought on by the God of Heaven (aka the Lord Buddha). The Fox girl nurses Carter back to health and he leaves, apparently completely oblivious to the fact that she has fallen for him. So, logically, she and her father come up with a plan of deception & illusion to make him fall in love with her as well.
In the meantime, there is a lot of infighting in the Snake family. The main villain Snake still really wants to marry the Fox and has decided to take on everyone to get his way, including those who guards the Gates of Heaven. His sister keep strying to talk him out of it and foils a couple of his fights with Carter, who by this point, actually has fallen for the Fox girl.
Quite a few more fights ensue over the course of the film, which end up with the final fight between Snake and Carter at the Gates with the Abbot watching (he's the equivalent of St. Peter, I suppose... sort of Buddha's maitre d').
This wasn't a horrible film, overall. Carter was slightly less skilled in this role and there was little chemistry between himself and his leading lady. Thankfully, there were no monkeys or roller-skating ninjas in this film either.
Pain rating: 3 Fingers of Death
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