Wheels on Meals, starring Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao and filmed in Spain, was a mix of incredible fight scenes and a great plot
Sammo Hung Kam-bo’s Wheels on Meals (1984) operates on a simple premise: unite three of Hong Kong’s greatest martial arts talents and let the magic happen.
If that was not enough, the action scenes are superb, and the fights are rightly considered to be some of the very best that the “Three Dragons” have performed on screen.
Hung’s fight choreography has always been more hard-hitting than Chan’s, and here his direction mixes goofing around with tough competition-style combat to outstanding effect.
As the Post reviewer in 1984 put it: “This jet-speed Cantonese comedy directed by funnyman martial arts expert Sammo Hung is the type of attraction that motivates people from Shau Kei Wan to San Po Kong to come out of their routine lives and jobs [and] then straight to the movie-houses.”
The story, set in Spain, features Yuen and Chan as two cheerful chaps who operate a mobile food van in Barcelona. They have integrated themselves into the local scene – something that, back then, was unusual for a Hong Kong film set abroad – and are friends with the locals, and even the police.
