Too much of everything

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Great Film overall

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Really bad, except for the fight scenes at the end. The most girls of shaolin I counted were 15, though most of the time I think there were only about 10. Those were the good things about this movie. The English dialogue was terrible, 99% of it made no sense and almost no sentence would be recognized as an English sentence. I am not sure but I think it was supposed to be a comedy, It failed. And the synopsis seems to have nothing to do with the movie.

18 BRONZE GIRLS OF SHAOLIN is a very odd and very cheap kung fu comedy from Taiwan. It's another rip-off of 18 BRONZEMEN although as the title would suggest, the bronze characters are now kung fu-fighting women whose metallic structure doesn't seem to prevent them from jumping around, fighting, and defying the basic laws of physics. For most of its running time this is a very broad comedy with lots of bizarre and surrealistic elements that unfortunately don't really work all that well apart from in a few instances.The entire purpose of the film seems to be a depiction of characters pretending to be something they're not. Thus we get a woman who pretends to be blind and a group of men who pretend to be women. The main thrust of the plot is about a secret training manual which has been stolen and the efforts of the main characters to track it down. Yueh Hua has a cameo but otherwise the cast is undistinguished. The dubbing and picture quality are typically poor. The film's one highlight is when the characters battle with giant roses, which is really bizarre. Otherwise it's your typical kung fu inanity.

A woman pretends to be blind. Lots of other people pretend to be mute. Half the male characters dress as women. One guy fights himself. Others fight giant roses. Various people may be called Pai Yu Fei – they don't seem sure. And who is the mysterious Lady Killer? Reading this kind of stuff, I'd want to take a look and the film is certainly weird, but for a long while it doesn't make enough sense even to be funny. 'I'm confused,' says the hero half an hour in. 'I'm as confused as you,' says a villain, half an hour later. 'What's happening?' says someone else. 'I have no idea,' comes the reply. They are not alone. You'll be confused. You'll have no idea what's happening.The acting and direction isn't that great, early on there isn't much action, the jokes tend not to be that funny and there's never any story. We're told Pai Yu Fei is some kind of rebel leader, learning kung fu to get revenge, but what she's rebelling against and what she wants revenge for is anyone's guess.Then again there are the hilarious bronze girls (gold suits and face-paint) – over the opening credits, they use their bodies to ring a giant bell. And once the local ancient white-haired monk pops up with a line or two of explanation, we're launched into a final half-hour of non-stop, funny, inventive action (especially when the BGs get going – check out the five-high shoulder rides!) Excellent stuff! – pity about the first hour.

False monk, Ching Kung, trains 18 girls to master the arts of bronze girl kung-fu. At the beginning I was completely lost about what was happening but that didn't spoil the fun. Anyway, one of the bronze girls was missing and everyone was on disguise and looking for her, I didn't get it if they found her or not but then some monk appeared and announced that the secret bronze girl fighting manual was stolen and everyone rushed to find the thief, o brother..Highly recommended for those who have enough sense of humor for silly kung-fu flicks.(BTW. the movie was made 1983)