KB All-Stars: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

### Inspirations

*It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World* (1963)*It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World* (Hong Kong film series)

*KB All-Stars:* ***It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World*** is a crossover comedy film inspired by *It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World*, a 1963 American comedy film and the *It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World* Hong Kong comedy series. It is KB Fan Fiction's 95th feature film.

## Premise

A group of outlaws hear from a wanted criminal's hidden stash of loot, and race against each other across the world to find it.

## Plot

Smiley Tank (Tank), a suspect in a canned tuna robbery 15 years before and on the run from the police, recklessly passes a number of vehicles on a twisting road in the Sahara Desert in Egypt before careening his car and crashing into the Giza Pyramids. Five motorists from four of the passed vehicles stop to assist: Dr. King Caesar, a dentist; Bumblebee, a furniture mover; Ultraman and Josh K, two friends on their way to Hong Kong; and Godzilla, an entrepreneur. Just before he kicks the bucket (his foot literally kicks a solid bucket as he dies), Tank tells the supposedly good Samaritans about $350,000,000 buried in a box (which turns out to be a suitcase covered loosely on top by a metal plate) in Hong Kong, under a "Big W". Two detectives (Ace the Smart (main) and Chomp Max (supporting)) arrive, with the Ace asking those five, who arrived at the accident site, some pointed questions about their interaction with Tank. While not so artfully dodging the questions, each of the five internally changes from having had compassion for Tank to becoming greedy to retrieve the treasure. Then the detectives permit the five to return to their vehicles after demanding and receiving Godzilla's contact information. The motorists then drive away from the pyramids, initially testing each other's resolve on the road, then stop to try to reason with one another on how to share the money, but when they can't agree on any one particular distribution (in Ultraman's words, "Look! We've figured it seventeen different ways, and every time we figured it, it was no good, because no matter how we figured it, somebody don't like the way we figured it! So now, there's only one way to figure it. And that is, every man, including the old bag, for himself!"), they run to their vehicles to engage in an all-out race to reach the loot first. All four vehicles are eventually abandoned.

Meanwhile, Captain Gomora of the AFE Police Department has been patiently working on the Tank case in Egypt for 15 years, hoping to solve it someday and retire with honor. Learning of the fatal crash, he suspects that Tank might have given one or more of the witnesses a clue to the stolen loot's location and has police units track their movements. After mistakenly throwing his hat out of his office window, where a passing motorist (Ultraman Taro) intentionally runs over it, Gomora phones police (Ultra Seven, Ultraman Tiga) in another jurisdiction about Tank. Gomora's switchboard operator (Anne Scarlett Waters Jr.) takes calls, while later on Gomora has his own disastrous phone conversation with his wife, Carina (Ka-Rei Goh), and his daughter, May (May Seven).

Everyone experiences multiple setbacks en route to the money, beside war happening around the first part of the journey out of Egypt into the Asian mainland. In Pakistan, Caesar and his wife Fanny Caesar (Fanny Soh) charter a shabby World War II-era Zero Fighter plane to Hong Kong from an unlicensed pilot (Rodan). The two arrive by cab at a hardware store. After telling the cabbie (Ultraman Leo) to wait outside, a store employee (Terry Rex) lets them in just before closing time. However, the store's owner, Mr. Dinky Saur (Spiny), then turns off all the lights and closes and locks the door to the basement, into which the two, intending to find and buy a pick and shovel, had just descended. Caesar wrecks the place in various failed attempts to escape before blasting a hole in the wall with dynamite.

In Delhi, India, Josh and Ultraman question an attendant (Ultraman Jack) and, against his objections, convince pilot Ultra Ace (Ultraman Ace) to shuttle them to Hong Kong in his futuristic Mach 7 twin-engine aircraft. Ultra Ace carelessly lets them operate the controls while he makes drinks in the back of the plane and is soon knocked unconscious by the pair's erratic steering. The two then have to fly and land the plane themselves. They are eventually talked down by a group of air-traffic controllers (led by Geronimon and Annie King), who pass the radio to their superior (Ultraman Dyna). On the ground, crews including three firemen (Vakishim, Velokron and Doragoris) prepare for a terrible disaster.

Two other cab drivers (Rei Ayanami, Makinami Mari Illustrious), who respectively whisk Josh and Ultraman away from the Delhi airport, and Caesar and Fanny from the hardware store in Pakistan, also get in on the hunt.

At a highway in Myanmar, Bumblebee crashes his furniture truck into the car containing Godzilla, his wife Acka (Asuka Langley) and his overbearing dictatorial mother-in-law, Mrs. Chun (Lolita Chun). Godzilla persuades Bumblebee to ride off for help on a bicycle, then the three flag down Cybertronian army Lt. Col. J. Optimus Prime to get them to Hong Kong and ignore Bumblebee on the roadside nearby. The four stop at a service station in the China-Myanmar border owned by two brothers (Ultraman Mebius, SpaceGodzilla), who decline Godzilla's request to rent the station's tow truck. Mrs. Chun refuses the aid of a passing motorist (Anguirus), who is driving an old jalopy. After many arguments, most caused by Mrs. Chun, she and Acka refuse to go any farther, and the party leaves them behind.

Bumblebee tries to get motorist Silverton Speeder (Silvergon) from Vietnam to take him to Hong Kong but foolishly tells him about the scheme, prompting the greedy Silverton to race for the money himself. Bumblebee, outraged, destroys the aforementioned service station at which Silverton has been forced to stop due to a tire blowout. After the rampage, Bumblebee steals the station's tow truck and later picks up Mrs. Chun and Acka. Mrs. Chun calls her beach bum son Minilla (Minya) who lives in Phuket, Thailand, to look for the loot, but the Oedipus-obsessed Minilla, who is dancing with his laconic girlfriend (Eve “Aree” Eva) in Phuket, races hysterically to the defense of his mother instead. Silverton experiences his own setbacks, including losing his car in the Mekong river at the Laos-Myanmar border. After flagging down a nervous motorist (Alien Guts), persuading the motorist by a conspiracy theory that he is a hunted person (the unstated implication is a CIA worker hunted by insurgent terrorists), Silverton Speeder steals the motorist's car. All the while, the police secretly track their activities while Gomora bides his time.

Eventually after crossing the mountainous terrain of southern China, all of the interlopers arrive in Hong Kong and begin searching for the "Big W", overseen by Captain Gomora, secretly disgruntled and intent on keeping all of the loot for himself on being promised only a too-small pension, despite solving the Tank case. He orders all policemen to leave the area and waits for the others to retrieve the money. Chun, the only one who wanted no part of the scheme, is the first to recognize the "Big W" — four large trees standing at odd angles. As the watching Gomora steps out of the bushes and greets her, she unwittingly reveals the location to him and suggests they split the money. Soon Bumblebee, then the others, notice the palm trees as well and frantically begin digging beneath them while Gomora quietly mixes in with the non-diggers. After the suitcase containing the loot is dug up and opened, the group argues about the money's distribution. Gomora then identifies himself, takes the suitcase, and suggests to the stunned ensemble that they turn themselves in, stating that a jury might be more lenient if they do. Initially taking Gomora's advice, the defeated claimants climb into the two taxis and drive out of the park.

When the two taxicab groups notice Gomora heading away from Hong Kong with the money, they immediately reverse direction and chase him, foiling his plan to store his police vehicle with a pre-arranged crony (Starscream) in a seaside garage and hop a boat bound for Australia. After a number of unsuccessful attempts to reach Gomora by radio, Police Chief Ultraman 80 realizes what Gomora is doing, revokes his newly-trebled pension — which 80 had secured by twisting the mayor’s (Ultra Magnus) arm less than a half hour before — by tearing up the envelope that the mayor yielded and the pension papers that it presumably contains, and orders Gomora's arrest.

At the end of the chase, stranded high up on an abandoned building are the eleven men in the group, each of whom is continually trying to keep the other ten men from possessing the suitcase containing the money, despite warnings from a speech-maker (Alien Baltan) below; that the stairs are unsafe. While the men were trying to avoid falling off the building's disintegrating fire escape ladders, the suitcase accidentally opens. The astonished crowd watching below reaches for much of the money fluttering down but inexplicably leaves a significant amount of it untouched. The men then simultaneously attempt to climb down an extended fire truck ladder, but their combined weight makes the firemen lose control of the ladder, which gyrates wildly, flinging or dropping them off to various locations.

The dejected men, now immobile in a prison hospital in bandages and casts, blame one another for their predicament and criticize Gomora for seizing the money. Replying that their sentences likely will be lighter because he will probably take most of the blame in court, ex-Captain Gomora adds that perhaps in ten or twenty years, there will be something about all this he can laugh about. Joshua throws a banana peel towards, but beyond, a waste basket, landing on the floor, moments before the nagging Mrs. Chun enters, flanked by Fanny and Acka, scolding all of the hospitalized men for everything. When Mrs. Chun slips on the banana peel and is carried off on a gurney, everyone, including Gomora and Mrs. Chun, begin to laugh hysterically.