在这部猴形扣手剧情/动作片中,本片是成龙《蛇形刁手》的跟风作，剧情结构与《蛇形刁手》相似，不过远不及后者。但正是有着像《猴形扣手》这类片子的推波助澜，香港才有了谐趣功夫片的高潮迭起。论坛发过本片的英文版，现将国语版拿出分享，相信喜欢功夫片的朋友一定不愿错过。
A snake style expert travels the lands, imposing his mastery on others, until he runs into a monkey expert living on the edge of a small town, who defeats him soundly. The snake expert leaves vowing vengeance. A young peasant boy who is bullied by local noblemen seeks to learn drunken boxing from the head of a local martial arts school. The boys learns and eventually meets and befriends the monkey style expert. When the boy beats up his previous tormentors, the nobles patriarch challenges the boys teacher, the drunken master, who defeats the lot of them. Embarrased, the nobles retain two hired snake style killers, one of whom is the expert that that was beaten by the monkey style. They kill everyone except the peasant boy, feeling he is to weak and unskilled to be worth their honour. The peasant combines drunken' boxing with monkey style in an attempt to put down the snake killers.
