Kung Fu Hustle - Axe-Kickin' Edition (SE/DVD)

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    Deluxe Edition Stephen Chow`s follow-up to SHAOLIN SOCCER ups the over-the-top action quotient by about three zillion percent. The story is set in 1930s Hong Kong, with Chow as a shaggy-haired, would-be bad guy named Sing, who gets cau...
 
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    Stephen Chow`s follow-up to SHAOLIN SOCCER ups the over-the-top action quotient by about three zillion percent. The story is set in 1930s Hong Kong, with Chow as a shaggy-haired, would-be bad guy named Sing, who gets caught up in the middle of a war between the top-hat-wearing Axe gang and the hard scrabble inhabitants of Pig Sty Alley. Chow--who wrote, produced, and directed--doesn`t step in as the star here for quite a while, letting the comic duties fly in a myriad of directions: a landlady in curlers (Yuen Qiu) has a yell that can flatten buildings; people get kicked across courtyards and through walls; musician assassins whip ghost sabers from lyre strings, and a mental patient in pink flip-flops named "the Beast" (Leung Siu Lung) catches bullets in his fingers. Buoyed by SOCCER`s box office success, HUSTLE uses bigger production values and a dizzying amount of CGI-enhanced martial arts (imagine Bruce Lee vs. Bugs Bunny in THE MATRIX). It`s full of references to other films and filmmakers, revering spaghetti westerns and `70s Shaw brothers movies a la Tarantino`s KILL BILL (fight choreographer Yuen Wo Ping worked on both films). It also pays sly homage to the works of Wong Kar Wai, D.W. Griffith, Sam Raimi, Jean-Luc Godard, Stanley Kubrick, and Akira Kurosawa. Raymond Wong`s inspired score matches each cinematic reference with the appropriate cue as the camera circles and swoops around the sprawling sets. This is a real treat, more than a great action film or comedy, it`s a great film period, and one that set box office records in the East.
 

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Overall Rating: 5

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Amazing

theunderside from Greenville, MI, Jun 12, 2008

This movie is very entertaining. Very funny and very action packed.

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Excellent Spoof

415dan from San Francisco, CA, Mar 31, 2008

One of my favorite comedies. If you are a fan of comedies like Dumb and Dumber, Something About Mary and Kingpin this will be right up your alley. Puts it to martial arts movies where characters can inexplicably fly.

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Kung Fu Hustle

Anonymous from Longview, WA, Dec 2, 2007

This is about the best Kung Fu movie I've ever seen. It blends humor, character development, and stylized action. Non-stop entertainment!

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