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  • Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: In the Bruces' trip to Thailand, they go to a beach with topless women rubbing lotions on each other. The Bruces watch for a bit and leave, and the scene is never mentioned again. What makes it all the stranger is that in some of the shots - and only some of the shots - the women are fully nude; it's not even a matter of them getting dressed, as the shots where they're only topless and the shots where they're completely naked alternate.
  • Cliché Storm: This is B-movies exploiting martial arts, what do you expect?
  • Designated Hero: One Bruce clone breaks the throat of a defenseless prostitute with one blow, albeit one who tried to stab him earlier. Another one tortures a henchman by pouring acid on his face. Are they exactly heroic characters?
  • Fetish Retardant: The potential fanservice of topless women on a Thailand beach is ruined by Bruce Lee's unflattering tiny pink shorts and Chuck's dance belt.
  • Fridge Logic:
    • When Bruce 1 shows up at the gold smuggling film producer's set and starts to effortlessly beat up extras, the director somehow instantly deduces that he is a secret agent, but not the fact he looks like the recently deceased Bruce Lee.
    • The same film producer also thinks that contraband smuggling is when you bury a bag of gold in the ground.
    • Hearing that the attackers are fighting like Bruce Lee, Dr. Nai concludes that "this is definitely the work of the FBI". Do they regularly clone dead movie stars to be secret agents?
  • Harsher in Hindsight: In the film, a corrupt gold smuggler/movie producer suspects his new "star", one of the clones (Bruce 1), of being a spy. He and his partner brainstorm a plan in which they continue to film the movie and arrange for him to be shot by an actual gun during filming, thus eliminating the threat, making it look like an accident, and causing instant publicity. Let's hope that Bruce's son Brandon Lee didn't die for the same reason...
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: These days, the name Dr. Nai brings up a completely different doctor in mind, making his plan to Take Over the World even more hilarious.
  • Narm: Oh boy, the whole movie consists of this:
    • Due to poor dubbing, the evil film producer's henchman calls Bruce 1 whats sounds like "Dirty Jew".
    • Dr. Nai's plan to Take Over the World with vegetation killer and an army of bronze men is so crazy and so stupid.
    • The bronze men are clearly stuntmen wearing briefs and bronze paint, and somehow automatically chew poisonous grass to play as if they "accidentally fell on it and got poisoned".
  • Narm Charm: Well, considering B-movie nature of this film, everything in it can be treated like this, starting with the cheese English dub and finishing with poorly motivated fights. And let's not remember that this is Stealth Parody on Bruceploitation films.
  • So Bad, It's Good: This film is obviously doesn't hold a candle to the real Bruce Lee's films, but at the same time it can be very funny to watch how ludicrous the premise is.


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