Reading GaraiJAN's review for this movie, the one I watched was different as it had no Bruce Lee footage. Possibly the original version of Super Gang was re-cut to include Bruce Lee scenes. The one I watched had Allan(Le) returning from Holland to discover Big Brother has been killed. Big Brother, Allan and Hon are in a gang. Now Hon controls the gang, and Allan suspects rival gang boss Piggy Ming of being the murderer. Allan meets Ming's henchmen Kenneth, as the two are childhood friends. Although the credits bill Bruce Le as the star he isn't in it that much. Most of the movie deals with the two gangs playing each other. Inspector Chan is a cop on the take from the gangs to keep them out of trouble. Hon's men are being killed by a guy in a cheesy Halloween mask, the same guy who killed Big Brother. Allan is fooled into killed Piggy Ming. Kenneth tells Allan what really happened to his Big Brother. Allan confronts Hon and the two fight, which ends in Allan getting his face slashed with a machete and then Hon kicks him off a cliff. Ouch, he's not getting back up after that one. Hon now sets out to kill Kenneth, but Kenneth ends up killing Hon. We learn that Inspector Chan was the real mastermind of playing the two gangs into killing each other out. The movie ends with Chan leaving a club. Kenneth pulls up in a car and pulls out a gun and blows away Chan. The film ends with a freeze frame of Kenneth firing the gun.
The movie wasn't actually that bad, probably because it was so short. Stuff just kept happening. The fighting was okay, with a few scenes that looked pretty good. There were a few standout scenes like Allan leaves a pig's head on the hood of Piggy Ming's car as a calling card. I'm telling you that pig head was no prop, that was the real thing. In another scene one of Hon's men is run over by a car. It's dark and pretty low tech, but it still looks kinda cool. One fight scene takes place in a pigpen. Kenneth is fighting these two guys and he's throwing them and knocking them down onto all these pigs, it's pretty fun. Unfortunately, one of those pigs probably shows up later on the hood of Ming's car. Another scene has a guy on a motorcycle robbing some other robbers of their loot. That's not the good part, the part you want to look for is the motorcycle. If you watch closely you'll see a sign that reads "Bruce" is on the motorcycle. I don't know what it's supposed to mean, but it's kinda cool. The last scene is Kenneth fighting some guys in a backfired ambush. I noticed one of the guys attacking Kenneth has the same Hawaiian shirt as me! I got mine at a thrift store, so it's vintage, maybe it's the exact same shirt worn by the guy in the movie. It's not, but I can also dream. I was disappointed by the lack of Bruce Le and the fact that he died. Bolo Yueng also shows up in the starring credits, but only appears in two scenes, and he also dies. There are also other scenes that occur that aren't relevant to the "plot" of the movie, but I guess it doesn't matter. The director's name is Yellow John, now that doesn't seem very politically correct, especially for a kung fu movie involving Asian cast. I can't find the year this thing was made. I found it was made in 1978, 1980, 1982, and 1985. The clothing looks a bit dated, I'd guess 1978 or 1980, but I can't say for sure. Anyhoo, for some reason I actually enjoyed the movie, for some reason I was expecting something a little more boring.
I got this movie on DVD from Beverly Whilsire Filmworks. It's one of those budget, and I mean budget, DVD's. The disc has no main menu, the movie just starts playing, but it does have chapter selections. The film is full frame and dubbed even though it's presented with black bars on the top and bottom of the screen. I don't know why this happens, probably just to give the illusion of being widescreen. Picture and sound aren't bad, but then for something like this and it's age, I wasn't expecting crystal clear picture and sound anyway. The folks at Beverly Wilshire have no scrupples as the box art promotes Super Gang as a Bruce Lee movie. The cover has a picture of Bruce Lee from Enter the Dragon and on the top it says "Bruce Lee", while below that is the title. Same thing on the spine and then on the back it says "The Super Gang starring Bruce Lee". They're trying to get some schmuck to buy it thinking it actually has Bruce Lee in it. Also all the Beverly Wilshire DVD's have a Dobly Digital logo on the back. I'm sure they could've re-mastered it in Dolby, but given the half assed approach to everything else I doubt they did. If it's actually in Dolby Digital, then I'm Bruce Lee! The price is cheap and it's worth it to pick up, even if you don't like it, it's not like you spent a lot of money on it anyway.
"Reviewed" by Keith.