Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle is the highest grossing Hong Kong made film in Hong Kong, according to IMDB. We rented the DVD, this weekend and I'm unsure how to describe it, as it was unlike almost anything else.
Part wuxia, part Zucker brothers-style spoof, part Looney Tunes, Kung Fu Hustle was an enjoyable rollercoaster of a movie. We follow gangsters who spend far too much time dancing, completely inept wannabe gangsters, and the citizens of Pig Sty Alley, who seem to have a remarkable knack for Kung Fu.
Though I'm still not sure what to think of the movie, I did enjoy it enough to want to check out some of Stephen Chow's other movies.
Until later...
August 22, 2005
Kung Fu Hustle
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It's all about Shaolin Soccer! Try to find the subtitled, uncut, pre-disney version.
That may be hard to do in Kalamazoo. I once tried to find a copy of Shichinin No Samurai, that didn't work out to well...actually that's a story that deserves its very own post (even though it's several years old now).
We've got a copy of this (one with a parrot on its shoulder) and just watched it the other day. It was like a French martial arts film.
If you think about the traditional "kung fu movie", all they did was create a wafer-thin plot line on which to hang wild fight sequences. This is more or less true for Stephen Chow's movies, but he hangs on that line everything else he can think of as well. A little song, a little dance... Batman's head on a lance. Whatever comes to him. The guy's got a wild imagination, there's no doubt.
(I watched it again today, second time around, and it just got funnier. After The Beast literally pounds Sing into the ground and then stops and asks "Why'd you hit me?" And Sing lifts up that tiny stick and whacks him on the forehead... you've got to admit, that was a rolling on the floor moment, or close to it.)
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