After exerting monumental effort to bite my tongue while watching The Ugly Truth (“men like tits and ass!” “women are controlling bitches!” “here’s a visual vibrator gag that will make everyone laugh because no one except the audience will know she’s havng an orgasm, ha ha, we’re so clever!”), I almost went home with memories of the horrible movie haunting me when my friends began flipping through the channels and came across The Impossible Kid.
I’d like to draw your attention to the plot synopsis on IMDB, paying particular attention to what’s underlined:
Weng Weng is now working for the Manila branch of Interpol. The Chief sends him in the pursuit of Mr X, an arch villian with a white sock on his head, who is holding the Philippines to ransom. Two businessmen, Maolo and Simeon, pay the demands but Weng Weng suspects foul play and goes deep undercover to reveal the identity of Mr X.
There’s an amazing chase scene in which the James Bond-esque two-foot-nine-tall Weng Weng as Agent 00 effortlessly evades a huge muscle car on the highway, finds himself at the edge of a cliff (of course), then watching the most spectacular visual effects that 1982 had to offer as he drives his motorcycle off the cliff and lands easily across the chasm without kicking up so much as a cloud of dust. It could not have been more perfect.
Does it get better? If you consider that The Impossible Kid is actually a sequel to the 1981 film For Y’ur Height Only (see video above), then yes, oh god, yes. It is exponentially better.
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