This story is very inspirational with rooted lessons

Mild-mannered martial arts student Leroy Green (likable Taimak) yearns to obtain an all-powerful force known as "The Glow." Leroy faces opposition from evil king-fu warrior Sho'nuff (broadly played with fire-breathing fearsome brio by Julius Carry) and has to rescue beautiful singer Laura Charles (Vanity at her most radiant, appealing, and flat-out gorgeous) from the vile clutches of unscrupulous two-bit record producer Eddie Arkadian (a gloriously hammy portrayal by Chris Murney).Director Michael Schultz maintains an engaging lighthearted tone throughout, stages the chopsocky fights with considerable aplomb, and keeps the entertaining story zipping along at a brisk pace. The game cast gleefully go to town on the blithely inane material: Faith Prince brings a sweetly ditsy charm to her role as bubbly airhead Angela Viracco, Mike Starr snarls it up nicely as brutish goon Rock, Leo O'Brien provides plenty of swagger as Leroy's jive-talking' little brother Richie, Ernie Reyes Jr. busts some impressive karate moves as fierce little squirt Tai, and Glen Eaton contributes an amusing turn as smartaleck Johnny Yu. William H. Macy and Chazz Palimenteri pop up in nifty small parts. James M. Contner's glittery cinematography gives this film a sparkling neon look. Both Misha Segal's funky score and the soulful rockin' soundtrack hit the right-on groovy spot. Best of all, this movie totally eats up the 80's: We've got hopelessly dated slang ("heavy dude"), cheesy rap singing, break dancing, massive hair, outrageously tacky clothes, ridiculous song and dance numbers, and even an ugly transvestite. Good goofy fun.

This movie is from 1985 and should stay there. Way back in time before any good music videos were made or vevo or Youtube..oh wait! it's not a music video movie? it's a martial arts movie? dedications to Bruce Lee? what an insult. A bunch of morons crash into a theater and start acting out and beating people up on the screen stage, are you kidding me.There is not one once of realism in this whole lousy film.All about a era we would much rather forget only because we can't deny because its recorded on film like this one.Classic is Bruce Lee and good old Godzilla made with effort to please audiences even if they only had plastic toy dinosaurs and a gift for action.Skip this guys video of his 14th birthday party and watch the Discovery Channel or something with some intelligence and meaning. No wounder UFO's wont land on Earth.

This movie, along with one or two more on this list, fall into a category that will only be appreciated by certain people. I'll be blunt, if you like martial arts movies, like myself, you'll definitely like this movie. If you have an affinity for Bruce Lee, like myself, you'll love this movie. Taimak plays a kung fu student searching for the final level to become a master while also falling for a popular singer and having to save her life. Simple enough but there's so much to this movie that brings you in. Like I said, if you understand and appreciate martial arts and know some of the Chinese culture on it, this movie does it justice in an 80's urban kind of way. Kung fu is seen in a different light with street familiarity and a hip hop vibe. Its ridiculousness somehow fits into the world of martial arts and main stream urban hip hop simultaneously and has to be nothing short of appreciated by anyone that enjoys movies of the genre. I mean, being tied from head to toe and getting out by break dancing can only work in this movie. Two guys glowing a la Dragonball Z while fighting works beautifully in this movie. Taimak, a black adolescent with a normal black family who dresses and acts like a China man can only work in this movie. The fighting scenes are great and the bad guys look like they popped out of a video game reminiscent of Mortal Kombat. A great, great watch that makes you wonder what happened to Julius Carry, I mean, before he died in 2008?