First of all, let me just say Wheels on Meals is a GREAT movie, one of Jackie Chan's finest. However the picture quality of this particular release is TERRIBLE, it's practically VHS quality, and it's non-anamorphic. Audio is serviceable and offered in both Cantonese and English. Subtitles in English are available.3 stars is for the quality of the release. As far as Jackie's movies go this is a 5-star. Maybe 20 years ago a release of this picture quality would be at the bottom end if acceptable, but it just doesn't fly today. I would only recommend this DVD version if it's cheap and your only option.
If you like high-energy action and fun Jackie Chan style, this one is for you!
If you watch Jackie Chan movies then you already know what to expect. Cheesy humor with great fight scene. This is a good movie to kill some time.
SCAM! This is NOT Wheels on Meals! It’s an amateur rip of Spartacus and the Ten Gladiators (1964). The box cover and DVD label are home printed low quality and it is not even a legit DVD.
classic, but wish it has a Cantonese option for audio
I think these are really well made copies none the less ive got meals on wheels just an fyi
Amazing movie. Decent plot. Fun interplay. & IMPRESSIVE fight scenes & action.
The restoration and extras are great, nothing to complain here with the exception that the collector booklet was not included!!
I was actually disappointed that I couldn't find the original subtitled version. I settled for the English version. As it turns out, not only is this in the original Cantonese as well as English, but it's also the uncut version that contains a scene that's not on other DVDs! My mom and I are big into Jackie Chan movies especially the ones before he blew up here in America, and this movie is going to blow her mind. 100% worth the price!
When people think of Jackie Chan his recent movies come to mind but hardly anyone remembers his earliest films. Wheels on Meals has all the things right about Jackie’s work alongside his drama academy brothers this is one the family can enjoy watching from the comedy of Sammo Hung to the iconic fight scene with Jackie against Benny ‘The Jet’ Urquidez it’s one not to miss.
I watched this once back in the day when I was a kid. I was in love with the fight scenes and humor.Finding this gem again recently and discovering that it was available on amazon prime was a delight. Easy to watch, English dub (only), and English captions available. The fight scenes were just as great as I remembered them and the humor and acting were more appreciated now that I'm in college. You just don't get these vibes and action from modern-day movies and cinematography, sadly.If you're on the edge about watching this movie I would highly recommend watching it. I only wish it were filmed in English as the voices didn't match with the actors' mouths (not sure what the original dubbing was and neither is it available on Amazon).
The movie literally starts with a sweaty workout scene of a couple of well-groomed, neatly dressed, confirmed bachelors who live together. The couple have a brightly colored food truck where David (Yuen Biao) cooks while Thomas (Jackie Chan) skateboards to take orders. One day they come across a pretty girl in trouble and offer her to stay at their apartment. After she comes out of the shower she asks if either of them would like to "have" her, but the boys in unison say "No, thanks!", turn around, put an arm around the other and walk back into their room. She leaves in the morning, but their paths are to cross again, thanks to an inept, novice private investigator and a meandering, slow-moving plot. That leads to a rather predictable ending featuring a very good fight scene, employing a popular trope for Hong Kong movies of the 80's where the clever Chinese man defeats the big bad white man. This movie is also a shameless ad for Mitsubishi motors where, I swear to God, a chase scene is interrupted just to show a Mitsubishi sports car perform a wild jump, an old lady comes out of the car and exclaims: "I could've been dead, but thankfully I have a pretty good car!" Oh and also their food truck is a tricked-out Mitsubishi van. And they serve the food under a huge sign 'Mitsubishi Motors'.At the end our two heroes and the chubby PI risk their lives and all get pretty badly beaten up, but are still together. And then the girl shows up and gives them a half-hearted hug.Hooray for the 80's and hot pink blazers!
As an old martial arts movie aficionado, I've seen a lot of classic Jackie Chan films, and this has always been one of my favorites. As a kid, I must have watched it twenty times. I can't tell you how delighted I was to find it on Amazon Prime, included in my membership! Watching it again reaffirmed my belief that it's one of the great kung-fu films of my generation. Of course, having Yuen Biao, Sammo Hung, and Benny "The Jet" Urquidez in it helps, making it a star among cheesy old martial arts classics. Great comedy, good characters, and fantastic fights! After all this time, it's still a five-star kung-fu flick!
I LOVE this movie so much since watching it through Amazon Prime streaming. I wanted a physical copy before it is inevitably taken off Amazon. HOWEVER this not the same dubbing as the one you can currently stream through Amazon Prime. This one is actually WORSE. I can't speak towards the translation, but the sound quality of the voices is muffled, the Italian accents are even worse, and I understand the lips don't always match the dubbing, but this one seemed to have more instances where they dubbing would start noticeably before/after someone was talking.Additional Note: If you bought this and are looking for the English dub, its the second option under 'Sound'. The menu is in English/Chinese, the settings are all in Chinese.
If you've never heard of Yuen Biao, he's one of the best acrobatic Kung Fu fighters ever. Together with Jackie Chan in his prime, they make an amazing and unstoppable duo. Sammo Hung is positively hilarious in this one. it also features 2 seriously badass Western Karate masters: Keith Vitale and Benny Urquidez, both of whom only made a handful of films. So this one is a rare treat.This film isn't particularly violent, rather featuring a wide variety of amazing stunts, including many on skateboards. It's laced with dry humor throughout and never gets boring. I don't think the dubbed English is bad at all; after a while you almost don't notice it.
This movie is dubbed in English, so not so easy to watch when not all words are in sync with the actors' speeches. The stunts and fight scenes are great, but the story is a bit weak. It's mainly about a pair of cousins who live and work in Spain. They live across from an Italian who cheats on his wife a lot, and they work as restaurant servers via their mobile restaurant (a food truck). They have a friend who is a private eye, and the private detective is given a task to find a girl who went missing 12 years ago. It just so happens that the two cousins bumped into this girl who is now a woman, and the three of them are trying to protect her from a small mob that is trying to capture her. The main reason for this chase is that there was once a wealthy guy who cheated with his maid that gave birth to this girl. The rich guy was forced by his wife to kick out the maid and the girl. The girl became an orphan and only knows to steal money from others. The wealthy guy has no children of his own and had just passed away. He had his butler find this illegitimate daughter to give her his assets. However, his brother is interested in this asset and he would get the assets if the daughter doesn't show up to claim the wealth within 14 days of the wealthy guy's passing.
My review is for the film itself, not the vendor I purchased from who sold me what seemed to be a blatant bootleg copy of the movie. The aspect ratio was all over the place and the film's cover looked like a cheap print from a crappy color copier.Wheels of Meals is a wacky, goofy comedy that just so happens to feature one of Jackie Chan's all time most intense and brutal fight scenes. The action as a whole is intense and doesn't always mesh with the lighter tone of the actual story. Jackie and his costar Yuen Biao are roommates who also share a business as 1980's style food truck owners. While David (Biao) does the cooking, Thomas (Jackie) skateboards around the crowd serving up orders. They cook out of a crazy food truck that features a bizarre 80's style computer that automates all the doors (for some reason). One night the duo come across Sylvia (Lola Forner from Chan's classic Armor of God): a pickpocket and thief who poses as a prostitute for easy marks. Both David and Thomas fall for Sylvia and take her under their collective wing, despite her thieving tendencies. Meanwhile, their Private Eye pal Moby (Sammo Hung from Chan's other classic Project A) learns that Sylvia is actually the long lost daughter of a rich tycoon who recently passed and willed his fortune to her. The rich man's family is now hunting for Sylvia hoping to use her to steal the fortune, while Moby's employer wants her to get the inheritance she's owed. This puts Chan and his pal on a collision course with the family's henchmen who kidnap Slyvia. The three pals break into the estate and take on the family's thugs to save the girl.Craziest Shit You'll See Jackie Do: The film is a light-hearted action comedy for the most part, but again it is now mostly remembered for the final fight between Jackie and Benny "The Jet" Urquidez (a real life kickboxing champion). The fight scene is quite lengthy and downright brutal. Rumor has it that to make some of the slow-motion punches look more authentic, Chan and Urquidez decided to hit each other for real while packing their mouths with cotton balls for "cushioning." The fight scene is well worth checking out and you can find it in its entirety on Youtube, but the movie as a whole is worth checking out for fans.
I love Wheels on Meals, it's in my top 5 favorite Jackie Chan films. It has that charming mix of comedy and action that's a signature of his work, and though it's not quite as definitive as his more well-known features (like Police Story or Rumble in the Bronx), I like it a lot for it's light-hearted, breezy feel.But anyways. This DVD here is very likely a bootleg, because although the only two available audio tracks are English and Cantonese (which is a Chinese dialect), for some reason, splashed all over the DVD box is the JAPANESE language title "Spartan X". Even more telling, whoever manufactured these DVDs spelt and wrote the Japanese title completely wrong on the spine (they split parts of the katakana characters in places, AND they wrote it upside-down!)My first exposure to Wheels on Meals was from a well-performed English language version that was officially available on YouTube's movie channel a number of years ago. This DVD does not have that version --- rather, it sounds like a cast of foreign voice actors not very fluent in English attempting to produce a dub (the dialogue is very stilted, and it feels like there are heavy accents throughout). It's not horrible, but it can be hard to understand, and it's not as good as the other dub I watched, which was disappointing. If you're a fan of watching Jackie Chan films in the original Chinese, though, it's at least here, and sounds pretty good.It would be great to finally get some legit quality releases of the lesser-known Jackie Chan works.
When I first saw a clip of the fight scene between Jackie Chan and Benny "the Jet" Urquidez on Youtube, I knew I had to get this movie. While the dvd copy didn't appear any different from the VHS version, the audio and visual quality were still decent. The chapters could've been edited a bit better (instead of being broken into 4 separate chapters. The English dubbing wasn't bad (what you'd expect from an 80's martial arts movie), but some subtitles would've been nice as well. All in all, a good version of an otherwise great classic.
Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Yuen Biao.... if you are a fan of their style of Martial Arts movies, then this is a must see film, if only for for the final fight scenes alone. Sammo Hung does not use his full abilities in this movie. Jackie Chan and Yuen Biao are the featured artists in this collaboration. Sammo's character is used more in moving the story along than in action.From the opening training sequence (showcasing the speed of Chan and Yuen) to the short fight against the motorcycle gang in the Square to a few more smaller fights scattered throughout the film, it all culminates in a fantastic fight sequence at the end. Jackie Chan's biography lists this as his best fight on film. He and Benny "the Jet" really deliver a hard hitting, fast paced fight. Yuen Biao's chase/fight is to me, as entertaining and awe inspiring, if you enjoy acrobatics (but much different than your normal fight scene).For a martial arts film the story is not too bad either. As the Three Brothers help a young Spanish woman out of some difficult situations.If you enjoy this movie you may also want to see "Dragons Forever." Another collaboration of the Three Brothers. It has a rematch of the fight scene between Jackie Chan and Benny "the Jet." It also has Yuen Wah in a very entertaining role.