I followed the plot for War of the Wizards as far as the scene in which the hero, young fisherman Tai (Hsiu-Shen Liang), finds himself borne by a massive phoenix (that looks like a peacock) while being pursued by evil supernatural entity Flower Fox, who has a bad case of dragon breath, flames spewing from her mouth. After that, I got a little lost.
The story starts simply enough, with Tai finding a magical vessel of plenty that can produce whatever the owner desires. Tai quickly conjures up himself a fortune in silver and gold, making himself the target of several villains. Luckily for Tai, he is rescued from the violent ne'er-do-wells by a couple of babes, Jasmine and Hyacinth, whom he marries (yes, both of them).
It later transpires that Tai's wives are being controlled by Flower Fox, who is not only after the vessel, but also a bamboo book of all knowledge, the whereabouts of which is known only to the now wealthy fisherman. Tai goes to fetch the book (from the bottom of the lake where he also found the vessel), but will not hand it over-then the stuff with the phoenix begins and I gave up trying to make sense of the rest of the film.
Suffice to say that it is all very silly and incredibly inept: there's an old wise man with really hairy eyebrows; Tai pulls a magic sword from a stone; the sun's rays enable Tai to shoot laser beams from his new weapon (something designed to appease the Star Wars crowd); the wise old man gives Tai a silver disco suit, which he wears to defeat a giant rock monster; and Tai does battle with numerous duplicates of himself, as well as with Richard Kiel, of James Bond fame, who wears metal gauntlets to try and kill the fisherman.
At the very end, Tai falls into the lake naked, leaving me very confused about exactly what I had watched.
The story starts simply enough, with Tai finding a magical vessel of plenty that can produce whatever the owner desires. Tai quickly conjures up himself a fortune in silver and gold, making himself the target of several villains. Luckily for Tai, he is rescued from the violent ne'er-do-wells by a couple of babes, Jasmine and Hyacinth, whom he marries (yes, both of them).
It later transpires that Tai's wives are being controlled by Flower Fox, who is not only after the vessel, but also a bamboo book of all knowledge, the whereabouts of which is known only to the now wealthy fisherman. Tai goes to fetch the book (from the bottom of the lake where he also found the vessel), but will not hand it over-then the stuff with the phoenix begins and I gave up trying to make sense of the rest of the film.
Suffice to say that it is all very silly and incredibly inept: there's an old wise man with really hairy eyebrows; Tai pulls a magic sword from a stone; the sun's rays enable Tai to shoot laser beams from his new weapon (something designed to appease the Star Wars crowd); the wise old man gives Tai a silver disco suit, which he wears to defeat a giant rock monster; and Tai does battle with numerous duplicates of himself, as well as with Richard Kiel, of James Bond fame, who wears metal gauntlets to try and kill the fisherman.
At the very end, Tai falls into the lake naked, leaving me very confused about exactly what I had watched.