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Mood:
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- CrimesRivalryGangGangstersVengeanceChaos and MayhemMurderHeroes more...
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Genres:
- ActionComedyForeignCrimePeriod
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century40s
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- AsiaChina
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Audience:
- Teens
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- Award WinnerCritically Acclaimed
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Kung Fu Hustle, 2004
Cantonese, Mandarin
China, Hong Kong
Profile of Kung Fu Hustle
Kung Fu Hustle can be described as stylized, exciting, and humorous. The plot revolves around rivalry, crimes, and chaos and mayhem. The main genres are foreign, comedy, and action. In terms of style, Kung Fu Hustle is epic, is surreal, and features martial arts. In approach, it is fantastical. The storytelling is fast paced. Kung Fu Hustle is located in China. It takes place in the 20th century. Visually, it involves special effects. Kung Fu Hustle has received attention for being an award winner and critically acclaimed. It is well suited for teens. Note that it involves violent content.
Summary of Kung Fu Hustle
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.
Details
| Language: | Cantonese, Mandarin |
| Country: | China, Hong Kong |
| Release date: | January 2005 |
| Runtime: | 95 min |
Cast and Crew
as Landlady
as Landlord
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Critics Reviews
Entertainment Weekly
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- by: Owen Gleiberman
Los Angeles Times
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- by: Carina Chocano
Users Reviews
- 03.November.2012
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- by: Sanjay
- Sanjay rated this movie
10/10Must See
- 05.January.2011
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- by: Adam
- Adam rated this movie8/10Great
