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original title: Kung Fu Hustle
genge: Action,Comedy,Crime,Fantasy,Thriller
imdb: 7.3
duration: 1h 39min
tags: A film that proves being a good, bad guy is harder than it looks.
budget: $20,000,000
keywords: 1940s, kungfu, writtenanddirectedbycastmember, stylizedviolence, signlanguage, gang, axe, china, kungfumaster, gangster, pig, hero, money, shanghaichina, landlord, landlady, handshake, bloodsplatter,
I figured it (from those first minutes) as a standard kung-fu movie made on the cheap and thought I was looking forward to endless "slappy-fu" style fights where the combatants beat on each other for twenty minutes at a time without hurting each other. But, I told myself it had to get better.
Boy, what an understatement that turned out to be! Once the madness begins, it doesn't stop. Most of the comedy is visual, naturally, in a subtitled movie, but it just won't quit! Many of the scenes are so intricately involved that the comedy contained therein just increases in intensity as the scene unfolds. Examples include the knife-throwing scene and the lighter-in-the-car scene. The comedy keeps at you in these scenes long after you're sure that no further humour can be wrung out of the moment, yet Chow manages to squeeze every last drop of laughter out of it.
Another item which just adds to the insanity is the CGI. Being honest, the quality of it isn't that good (with some notable exceptions such as the assassins' musical swords and knights) but that only adds to the fun. Plus, it all goes by so rapidly that you often barely have time to notice it as CGI anyway.
There's also some dodgy wirework on show, but again, it all adds to the surreal nature of the movie and the fun-factor.
I mentioned the subtitles earlier. I'm not a great fan of them. Too often they distract from what is going on, or flick past too quickly to read in some dialogue scenes. Here, though, I'm happy to say that they've been done extremely well. The translation is excellent, and often the comments are funny in and of themselves. Similarly, they never obscure or distract from the action. In fact, they add to the overall effect of the movie immeasurably.
I've tried to imagine what the film would be like dubbed, but I can't see it being any better than the subtitled version. If they ever do a dubbed version, I hope they pay as much attention to the voice acting as they have to the subtitles, or it could be a serious let down.
Kung-Fu Hustle is not easily described. Some of the early Jackie Chan movies are similar, though without the CGI, obviously, but even they can't come close to the silliness on offer here. It's like some insane genetic splicing of kung-fu, Benny Hill and the Matrix.
Let's just say I haven't been so thoroughly entertained by a film since the first time I watched Airplane, and I haven't laughed so much, for sure. Unlike that particular comedy film, though, I suspect the humour of KFH will last a lot better. If you want to see what martial arts comedy should be like, this is where it's at.
There's little more I can say without ruining the scenes, except to say go and see it, don't be put off by the first few minutes and just enjoy! "Kung Fu Hustle" is a movie for those who like their Kung Fu films as over the top as possible. This film succeeds in introducing every Kung Fu and Wuxia cliché imaginable and makes fun of them as often as it can. The cast of characters is wonderfully cartoony as is much of the comedy.
On the other hand the film has a very severe story which helps it cling on to credibility. Unfortunately it also leads to the film's rather sluggish ending.
I'm tempted to say that this is the Hong Kong equivalent to "Kill Bill" but it's not as gory or even that serious. It's still an excellent movie by any measure. The movie refers glancingly to dozens of Hollywood classics, from "West Side Story" to "City Lights," but at heart it is a debt of honor richly paid by Stephen Chow to his martial-arts forebears and to the traditions that shaped his sensibility. His gong fu is the best. In contrast to the rest of the world the US-DVD is slightly censored in terms of violence and features some alternative shots of non-violent scenes.
It is assumed that Sony Pictures tried to trim the film to get a PG-13 rating, yet it still ended up with an R rating. While the footage in the uncut version is on par with an R-rated level of violence, Sony most likely didn't want to pay to resubmit the film in its uncut form for an R, so they just went with the version they initially submitted to the MPAA.
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