Kung Fu Hustle (Blu-ray) R
So many gangsters...so little time.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 12, 2006
- Originally Released: 2004
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Stephen Chow | |
Performer: | Wah Yuen & Qiu Yuen | |
Directed by | Stephen Chow | |
Edited by | Angie Lam | |
Screenwriting by | Tseng Kan Cheong, Lola Huo & Chan Man Keung | |
Composition by | Raymond Wong | |
Produced by | Jeff Lau |
Entertainment Reviews:
So disarmingly eager to please that only a stone-faced kung fu purist could object.
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Newsweek
Chow's movie may seem nutty on the surface, but its slyness, its dreamy unfolding of so many moods and genres, becomes intoxicating.
New York Magazine/Vulture
More like a cartoon populated with human actors.
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Sydney Morning Herald
That one can indeed call KUNG FU HUSTLE delightful reflects its wonderfully compelling, high wire sense of dreamy knockabout...
Sight and Sound
[I]n terms of physical timing, comic ideas and snap-crackle-pop filmmaking it buries any 10 other American comedies you can think of.
Movieline's Hollywood Life
Ranked #14 in Uncut's Best Films Of 2005 -- [A] blast of exuberant, over-the-top cinematic madness....Ridiculously entertaining.
Uncut
Rating: 5/5 --
Kung Fu Hustle is essentially one long computer-enhanced Looney Tunes punch-up - - and probably the most fun you'll have at the movies all year.
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BBC.com
Product Description:
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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