My review was written in June 1990 after watching the movie on King Gemini video cassette.
This Wichitamade oddity is old-fashioned spoof recommended to fans of cornpone humor. G-rated opus was completed in 1987 and is awaiting distribution.
Filmmaker Lance Hayes shows a genuine affection for old movies, his main homage here being to the 1933 classic "King Kong". Strained storyline has China sending to America a gorilla trained in the martial arts as part of a cultural exchange program. He escapes from captivity, takes a liking to pretty blonde Maxine Gray (as "Rae Fey") and ascends the town's tallest building, a Holiday Inn.
This puerile entertainment is easy to watch though out of step with today's sensational approach. Targets of satire range from the David Carradine "Kung Fu" tv series (the ape is called Jungle Jumper instead of Weed Hopper), tv newscasts and John Wayne movies. Tom Leahy does an okay Duke impression, but looks more like Leo V. Gordon than the targeted superstar.
Bumbling comedy team of Tim McGill and Billy Schwartz gets some laughs, though their costuming and styling makes film look like an early '70s production, Gray manages to provide some alluring pulchritude without threatening pic's G tag.
Finale features extremely poor stop-motion animation to simulate the gorilla's fall from the roof onto a helicopter. John Balee wearing the apesuit is unimpressive.