Clones of Bruce Lee Review: Part 1

by Spoony on July 28, 2009 · View Comments

Creator’s Commentary is here.

New house, new camera, same old Spoony! Well, a clone’s basically as good as the real thing, isn’t it?

In this special two-part episode, we take a look at the phenomenon of Brucesploitation and one of its most tasteless examples: The Clones of Bruce Lee, a movie that not only dares to rip off Bruce Lee’s good name, but does it several times!

The first part covers the Clone Bruce’s first mission: to infiltrate the crime syndicate of notorious gold smuggler Chi Lo by going undercover as a martial arts motion picture star. Think they can pull it off?

Check back soon for Part 2!

walmor

Acabo de perceber algo... o assistente zuado do Chi Lo parece muito com uma versão chinesa do Zacarias

Tyler

Hey a thought for burton's voice that it would he would talk using random lines from movies that anwsers the question but the really make no sense at the same time

SkullCrusher

So I don't know what would work better, the actual quote, or a robotized voice. But that is a great idea.

white rotten rabbit

Spoony, why, for the love of God, did you fuck up the aspect ratio? Aren't you supposed to care about things like tha, being a video and movie fan? What gives?

Starry Wisdom Sect

I'm not sure if it's been mentioned elsewhere, but Clones is also available on the "Master Ninja Collection". And it also has no credits at the end.

On an obscure note, near the beginning of the movie there are scenes where the nurses are helping the Bruces walk down a hallway. There's this loud electronic waaop waaop sound. I think they stole it from the beginning of "You Shouldn't Do That" by Hawkwind.

"My Hawkwind album cover will help!" - Crow T Robot

Dr. Clueless

Clones, huh? I should look into that.

urza22000

oddly enough Bill Nye will be at my college as a distinguished speaker.....kinda tempted to go see him now that dr insano gave him such a huge recommendation there at the end. Also Spoony where did you get "you dirty Jew" from? I agree with the people on the forums when i 1st heard it i heard "kill" like he couldn't think of something witty to call Bruce 1 so he just said "kill".

Om NOM NOM!

Also, The Warriors music.

Om NOM NOM!

I'd go gay for Spoony... Not creepy. Weird though.

Strelnikov

I liked that Spoony brought up "Bruce Lee Fights Back From the Grave" because I had read a review of it on the old "Stomp Tokyo" website years ago. The only reason that movie is a Bruceploitation flick is that Aquarius Releases (the guys who gave us "Zaat", "Surf II", and a "Boggy Creek" sequel) shot that goofy scene of lightning striking Bruce Lee's tombstone causing a Lee impersonator to jump out. Actually BLFBFTG is a cheapo Korean "fish out of water" movie about a martial arts master who goes to America, so in a way it's a ripoff of Lee's "Return of the Dragon."

Envy987

You don't mess with 1000 Miles to Grace land. That movie was awesome

JoeO

I wonder if it's even possible to do a review like this for some of the truly terrible kung fu movies floating around. Fists of Legend (a cash in on Fist of Legend) for example has no characters (just a bunch of fighters who never demonstrate that they even have a personality) and no real plot (some guys want to kill sun Yat Sen, so they wander aimlessly about the countryside while other guys aimlessly wander the countryside trying to protect him).

Anonymouse

Bill Nye was my childhood idol. I watched his show every day. Now I'm a bio major. Now I can be a mad scientist like I always dreamed!

Peter

You know, it's funny that you would review this flick now, as I just like a week ago, got this weird Martial Arts collection containing like twenty movies, most of which are within the Bruceploitation-genre. Just take a look:

Blood of the Dragon, Bloodfight, Bruce Lee Fights Back From The Grave, Champ Against Champ, Clones of Bruce Lee, Crippled Masters, Deadly Kick, Dragon Lee vs. The Five Brothers, Fighting Ace, The Fighting Fists of Shanghai Joe, Fists of Bruce Lee, Image of Bruce Lee, Kung Fu, Kung Fu Fever, L.A. Street Fighter, The Master, Rage of the Master, The Real Bruce Lee, Screaming Ninja, Snake Crane Secret

All of them are in desperate need of an angry rant. Some of them actually had their moments, but no. They are just plain awful. Please, go to amazon and buy it and give them a piece of your mind. It's only like $14 or something. That's way less than a buck a flick, they're practically giving them away. I got mine for $5 plus shipping. Could it be that the price and quality of the films could be related? But please, review them.

- http://www.amazon.com/Martial-Arts-20-Movie-Pac...

Emperor_Z

I demand fanart of the original Dr. Insano, the female one!

Qalest

Thanks so much for doing what you do, Spoony! Totally awesome stuff!

Rex

YES!!!....hes back and kicking more ass then ever good for u spoony

Andrew The Eternal

“Don’t mess with Bill Nye. He’ll end your ass, WITH SCIENCE!”
T-shirts. NOW!

What's going on with that guy, anyway? Did he just drop off the face of the Earth.
-wanders off to listen to theme on repeat-

Hugbox

Horrible likenesses of Bruce Lee, but my god that's the best Mark Hamill impersonator I've ever seen. They should make Clones of Mark Hamill.

Saliva1994

Cool Hobo spoony or Spencer D Bum if you want is back i always thought that he was hillarious in The dirty harry reviw i hope you do more things with D bum in the future oh and you rock!

John Hummel

I'm sitting here next to my wife with the headphones on laughing my ass off. Excellent work, sir.

Mariofan3425

Awsome review one qustion though where was Dr.Insano's son?

Altoman5

Welcome back, Spoony! You're more awesome than ever! Love the new place, definately a lot roomier than your old room. The video and sound quality is excellent, glad that you bought a really good camera. Wish I can afford a camera like that. I can't believe that this movie exists. It's a slap on the face to Bruce Lee by taking advantage of his death like that. I see that you're trying out new effects for your videos. Love the interaction between you, the Spoony Bum and Dr. Insano. Is that the art of film making or SCIENCE!?

Stephen

Your new room doesn't really feel like the spoony experiment. I miss seeing the old room. =( But it's good to have you back, Spoony.

wendell

Daaamn. the quality now is insane. But spoony is a perfectionist so what can we expect eh?

Brad

But, have you guys seen "The Dragon Lives Again"? You've gotta see this. Bruce Leong plays Bruce Lee who, after his untimely death, fights for control of purgatory. With the help of Popeye, he teams up against James Bond, The Man with No Name, Emanuelle, The Godfather, The Exorcist, and Dracula.