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A truly international production, Wheels on Meals teams up Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Yuen Biao in a comedic-action-crime caper that includes what some consider one of the greatest fight scenes ever filmed. Directed by Hung, the movie takes place in Spain, marking the first Jackie Chan vehicle set in a non-Asian location. Chan and Biao play two lunch-truck restaurateurs who are trying to make a living selling egg rolls and hamburgers in the busy squares of Barcelona. Hung is a novice private investigator searching for a beautiful pickpocket named Sylvia (Lola Ferner) whose thieving teams her up with Chan and Yuen. Sylvia is kidnapped after she discovers she is actually a wealthy heiress, and that's when Chan, Yuen, and Hung join forces to free her and kick some bad guys' butts. Wheels on Meals is lighthearted fun with stunts and action scenes (including skateboarding tricks and a scene in which Chan and Yuen face off against a motorbike gang) that simply reaffirm the stars' physical and comic talents. The celebrated fight scene is a matchup between Chan and international kickboxing champion Benny "the Jet" Urquidez. The intensity of their scenes together spurred rumors of a rivalry beyond the film. Whether or not this was true, the two paired up again four years later in Dragons Forever. As for the nonsensical title, one theory claims the film's distributor (Golden Harvest) had little success with films whose titles started with "m" so they simply switched the two words around. The DVD boasts subtitles in eight different languages but does not include the "blooper" outtakes that frequently accompany Chan's films. --Shannon Gee

Kwai tsan tseh [Region 2] Reviews:
A Jackie Chan Movie Classic
2009-07-20 - There's "American Movie Classics" around....well, how about "Jackie Chan Movie Classics"? Wheels on Meals is the first time all three of the opera school brothers (Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao) starred in a major film together. If you're used to the "Rush Hour" Jackie Chan, be prepared at how good the younger Jackie Chan looked.

Wheels on Meals is one of my favorites for the action and the comedy. The story line is not exactly the most coherent, but who cares about the plot when it comes to most Jackie Chan films?

In my opinion, this film began a run of films that featured Jackie Chan at his best. Other films to look at include Project A, Police Story, and Drunken Master 2. I would suggest that people get the original Hong Kong cuts of the films and not the American dubs that were released a few years ago.

AWESOME movie
2008-12-28 - Filmed in Spain in 1984, this movie has it all- Jackie with his two 'brothers', jaw-dropping stunts and action, great comedy. This is a must-have for even the slightest Chan fan, seeing the three brothers in action together doing what they do best is unbeatable. This film has a great plot, and was filmed around the time that Chan was getting married and expecting his son, Jaycee. Benny the Jet plays a somewhat large role here, and he and Jackie show off probably the greatest/most entertaining fighting sequence ever filmed. If you only own one Jackie chan movie, this should be it.

Great classic kung fu movie!
2008-07-14 - If you want some old school Jackie Chan action this is the movie to get. Jackie is at his best when Sammo Hung does the fight choreography. This movie has possibly one of the best fights ever filmed between Jackie and Benny "The Jet" Urquidez. Definitely worth owning!

A great big pile of wonderful cheese
2007-09-25 - I can't give this five stars, although I really enjoyed it, because it's one of those comedies that's funny but not really very good in terms of script/acting/direction/etc. However, if you want to see Jackie Chan run around acting silly and getting into semi-exciting fights, this is the movie or you.

For better Hong-Kong action/comedy, you'll do better with Chan's more recent (but pre-americanized) films like Drunken Master or any of the SuperCops.

Still, it was a hit at our last Samurai Film Fest, where it followed Seven Samurai - Criterion Collection - 3-Disc Remastered Edition and other Kurosawa-seriousness nicely.

Benny the Jet Urquidez vs. Jackie Chan part 1
2007-08-23 - This is an insanely fun movie starring the 3 brothers- Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao and Jackie Chan. Sammo stars as a private investigator who is hired to look for a woman. Yuen Biao and Jackie Chan work together selling fast food from their van. The woman Sammo is looking for is a pickpocket and is on the run from some goons. She is saved by Jackie and Yuen Biao and ends up living with them. The movie takes place in Spain and the woman finds out that her father was a Count and now that he is dead his evil brother will inherit everything if she can't claim it for herself. The 3 brothers help her out by battling the goons so that she can claim her inheritance. Sammo fights the main villain while Yuen Biao and Jackie fight his 2 top henchmen. Biao's fight with Keith Vitali is good, and the fight between Jackie and Benny Urquidez is amazing. There is some undercranking involved, but these guys are throwing punches and kicks so fast that only a few other movies can match its intensity. The choreography is breathtaking. Benny Urquidez is so fast that one of his kicks blows out a row of candles. There are no special effects or trick photography used to achieve this shot. So Jackie is lucky that he got out of the way of that kick! This fight always gets me pumped up.

So the final fights are outstanding, and the rest of the action scenes are very brief but still highly entertaining with incredible stuntwork, including some great car and motorcycle stunts. If you like this movie, then you have to see Dragons Forever. Benny Urquidez and Jackie Chan have an even better fight than the one in this movie.

4.5/5

I have the Hong Kong Legends version and it great picture quality and awesome interviews with Benny Urquidez, Keith Vitali, Sammo and Yuen Biao. The commentary from Bey Logan is very interesting and one of the things he talks about is why this movie was strangely titled Wheels on Meals.