Weapons include sticks, stones, a set of mounted antlers, liquor bottles, furniture, a giant bell, etc. The cameras zoom in on excruciating punches, kicks and choke-holds. Bodies cartwheel, ricocheting off walls and slamming into the ground. Much of the action is glossy and acrobatic, but the intensity and frequency of it is enough to give theater-goers whiplash. God s name gets a rude workout in several scenes.
Men drink heavily in Old West bars.
Roy and Wang play a Chinese drinking game which results in the two getting thoroughly plastered. Even Wang s horse gets drunk when it guzzles a bottle of whiskey. Wang s new Indian family passes the peace pipe, which seems to contain a hallucinogenic drug. But as our culture continues to become more and more desensitized to brutality, humor only complicates things. Chan doesn t bother to show viewers the any repercussions of their actions, he just laughs everything off as part of the fun.