Wheels on Meals Sammo Hung, 1984
Oh, man, this is like the great buddie action movies I never knew could be good. Jackie Chan and Yuen Biao are just buddies operating their own amazingly pimped out food van or whatever. They dominate most of the film, really. They meet this pretty lady and hijinks ensue there because they both want her but they're bros so they decide that neither of them will go for her. In the background is Sammo Hung, who plays a detective trying to track the girl down. There's not that much fighting at first, more of a comedy/action kind of thing (there's even a really badass car chase in there somewhere), but when both threads of the film converge and there's a rumble in this really great castle, there's lots and lots of fighting, including one of the greatest of all time. Jackie fights against this one white thug dude in this thing that gets progressively more epic and that climaxes with all kinds of badass shit going down, and although Sammo doesn't get to shine as much, he still delivers a bunch of laughs and thrills and goddamn if that one fight isn't fantastic, and I laughed and you laughed and we laughed, except there's no "we," just an imagined "we" or whatever, but I'll take what I can get, because movies like
Wheels on Meals should be known by everyone. So CINECAST!ing fun. And, man, Jackie Chan is a really good skateboarder...