The Movie: Ahhh, Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon. This film oozes of stereotypes and cheeziness in ways that only a 1980's martial-arts movie can. What can I say, I love this movie. The hero is a young black guy in New York who is seeking to achieve the final level in his training (which he stereotypically receives from an old asian guy) in which he attains "the glow". He walks around NYC wearing kung-fu gear, and idolizes Bruce Lee. In fact, some people actually call him "Bruce Leroy". His arch-nemesis is another black guy who has a crazy outfit, a big entourage, and a very Busta Rhymes-esque look and demeanor. This guy goes by the name Sho'nuff, and calls himself "The Shogun of Harlem". Does it get any cheesier than that?

Adding of course to the 80's cheesiness of it is the damsel in distress, a TV music/dance/video hostess VJ type played by Vanity... and another villain who seeks to build his fortune by getting his girlfriend famous... by kidnapping Vanity and forcing her to play his girlfriend's video. The hairstyles, the sets, the look, everything about it is just... well, it couldn't have come from anywhere but the 1980's, and that’s why I love this movie!

The DVD: This movie had a pretty good looking widescreen anamorphic film transfer. The menus were pretty simple, but good... special features included director's commentary (which I didn't have time to listen to), and that's about it. I mean, the other "special feature" was "featured trailers" or something like that which was movie trailers of other movies. Heh. There were also cast biographies and I think that was about it. I may eventually buy this DVD just cuz I like this movie so much and plus it's hard to tell when they are gonna play it on TV.