Kung Fu Hustle

[Mat]

Kung Fu Hustle
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Official Site: http://www.sonypictures.com/intl/cn/kungfuhustle/site/index_en.php


More trailers: http://www.themoviebox.net/movies/2005/IJKLM/KungFuHustle/trailer.php

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This movie looks crazy fun.

[vision_afar]

Lol I just saw the trailer and thought the same. It looks really fun.

[André]

I think it has beaten alot of sales records in Asia too.

And yeah, it looks kinda cool. Kinda like shaolin soccer type of movie.

[Se7en the movie]

It looks nuts!

[cg124]

Looks crazy and a hell of a lot of fun

[HotBoy]

I just saw the trailer myself. It kinda looks like a kung-fu version of "West Side Story" :cool: :applaud: :cool:

[Tony Montana]

Haha!!! I cant wait to see this one!!!

[poashaggy69]

this movie looks jacked, i mean, what the hell???

[Balefan]

This is the direct link to Quicktime version of "Kung Fu Hustle". (http://movies.apple.com/movies/jp/movies/sony/kungfuhustle/kungfuhustle_large.mov)

"Shaolin Soccer" was an extremely funny movie. This movie will hopefully follow in it's footsteps.:D

[André]

this movie looks jacked, i mean, what the hell???

Jacked? Like......crap? I just assume thats what it mean.

Well....its a comedy. With some crazy ass fung fu stuff :)

[servedcold]

I have a feeling I'll be seeing this in the future. I dig asian cinema

[KayTang999]

They are showing this at Sundance right now.

[poashaggy69]

i didnt mean jacked like crap, i meant like weird, demented.

[KayTang999]

I don't know how much you are familiar with Stephen Chow but this is not weird or demented if you have seen his work.

[hammerhedd11]

this looks strange in a good way! :D

[hammerhedd11]

BTW why is it rated R?
it didnt look unsuitable for children

[Riddle]

This is a great film! Saw it a few weeks back and it's brilliant! If you liked Shaolin Soccer, you'll love this!

[Mat]

I'll hopefully be seeing it in a few weeks.

Review then. . .

[KayTang999]

BTW why is it rated R?
it didnt look unsuitable for children

I am assuming that it is really violent and some humors are too dark for kids.

[masha lover]

if you like airplane, naked gun, ace ventura, and looney tunes you'll dig this movie.
could be the funniest movie i've seen, amazing directing and totally original. nothing like it.
and yes there are some very violent scenes i think just right at the beginning...and yet at the same time feels very much like a family oriented film with wholesome goodness themes injected throughout the movie. so strange and complex.
from this film one can see that stephen chow is a big fan of looney tunes.

[masha lover]

if you like airplane, naked gun, ace ventura, and looney tunes you'll dig this movie.
could be the funniest movie i've seen, amazing directing and totally original. nothing like it.
and yes there are some very violent scenes i think just right at the beginning...and yet at the same time feels very much like a family oriented film with wholesome goodness themes injected throughout the movie. so strange and complex.
from this film one can see that stephen chow is a fan of looney tunes.

[KayTang999]

I don't know if he is a big fan of looney tunes but he has been doing this type of movies for a long time.

[hammerhedd11]

and yes there are some very violent scenes i think just right at the beginning..
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like what?

[masha lover]

I don't know if he is a big fan of looney tunes but he has been doing this type of movies for a long time.
when you see this movie you'll see why. the crazy foot chase ending with the landlady splattered on the billboard is vintage road runner-wile e coyote. the use of firecrakers/dynamite exploding on that guy's head, the flower pot landing on the landlady's husband after she beat him up to, bucktooth jane cartoonish behavior, the fairy tailor, the pinball sounds during last fight,and the great use of old fashion music like the ones in cartoons i remember long ago...need i go on?

[masha lover]

like what?
well maybe not so much violent but kinda brutal. the guy getting axed to death, no blood though. the mom and daughter getting gasoline poured over them...stuff like that. notthing really explecit or gory though. it just may make some kids or people cringe a little.

[vision_afar]

I can't wait to see it :D

[hammerhedd11]

dont really think the poster is that great though

[vision_afar]

It is actually. Such use of negative space is common on Asian posters. But I guess not everyone can appreciate it.

There are few other

http://www.siamzone.com/movie/pic/2004/kungfuhustle/poster2.jpg
http://www.siamzone.com/movie/pic/2004/kungfuhustle/poster1.jpg

[hammerhedd11]

i can understand why people like it but it just doesnt appeal to me
the other ones are cool though

[KayTang999]

So I saw the trailer on big screen before House of Flying Daggers. It was interesting in a strange way. Kind of different perspective when I saw it online. But the movie looks really funny, obviously.

[Evilution]

Saw it at the Santa Barbara Film Festival last weekend...Wow, if you enjoyed Shaolin Soccer, you'll certainly enjoy Kung Fu Hustle. Haven't laughed this hard since..., well, Shaolin Soccer.

[stonefaced_1]

I talked with the film critic from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and he said this was one of the funniest movies he had ever seen. He claims it's going to "be huge" in the states.

[KayTang999]

I want to see this and Ong Bak. They are both so different but both have good action sequences.

[droidguy1119]

I loved Shaolin Soccer, and I want to see this movie too.

[KayTang999]

Yeah, that's what I heard. I mean if you like or have seen Shaolin Soccer, you will most likely like this movie too.

[DieselPower]

I saw this movie few months ago, back in Asia. If you liked Shaolin Soccer then you'll definately like this, to my taste its better then Shaolin Soccer.
Its like a comic super-kung-fu movie, with great special effects. Movie is indeed hilarious, and there are a couple of scenes that are slightly brutal, but its brutal in a comic sense, not to be taken seriously.
Shaolin Soccer was great cause they were showing extreme powers in use with soccer, now just think if the the ball was the enemy...quite hilarious.

[atropfunk]

Very interested in this one - I love genre bending movies (like comedy martial arts flicks).

And for the person who is interested in Ong Bak - go see it - it is awesome and Tony Jaa is gonna be a freaking superstar. He did this demonstration at the preview screening I saw and it was ridiculous!

[krazy_marco74]

my dad bought the DVD at chinatown for about 7 dollars CAD. it was an illegal copy with the summary on the back which didnt make a lot of sense and had spelling errors and grammar. it still has a dvd menu, and the movie quality doesn't seem like a DVD, its not one of those movies where they take a camera into the theatre, the quality wasn't really that good including the sound and picture. i saw the first 12 minutes of it because i was busy, it was really interesting and hilarious.

[KayTang999]

Very interested in this one - I love genre bending movies (like comedy martial arts flicks).

And for the person who is interested in Ong Bak - go see it - it is awesome and Tony Jaa is gonna be a freaking superstar. He did this demonstration at the preview screening I saw and it was ridiculous!

Ah, well I hope that if Tony Jaa actually get famous in US, he doesn't suffer Asian actor syndrome. You can ask Jet Li and Chow Yun Fat that question, feel really bad for them.

[Se7en the movie]

This is on as part of the Dublin Film Festival next week. I'm gonna try and get tickets for this cause it looks great fun!

[Alexander JL]

If you ask me, I think the humour in this movie is one you either love or hate. I hated it. There were only a couple scenes that were funny to me, the rest were just... bleh. My idea of the penultimate Kung Fu spoof would have to be Kung Pow!

"Woahoahoahoahoahoahoahoah... Awww.. so cute. Bye, bye. Woahoahoahoahoahoah..." CLASSIC! lol

[KayTang999]

It is hard to make a good joke because sometime people get it and sometime they don't.

[hei1spawn1]

I loved this movie so much. Theres a knife throwing scene that had me in tears it was so funny.

[Hugh]

Stephen Chow is teh sexy. Why can't I see this movie? Why isn't it playing at my ***** megaplex? Huh? anSw3r m3!11!!!1

[vision_afar]

:rolleyes:

[KayTang999]

Well, I would love to see the day when majority of foreign films get widerelease on the day they open in theaters.

[Mat]

It's a shame House of Flying Daggers didn't do better in wide release. That would have went a long way for foreign films in the US.

[KayTang999]

There are some issues with HOFD, especially with the plot. Sure it got great review but it seems like not many people like the movie and you just have Hero earlier in the summer. As far as I know, there were a lot of promotion for HOFD compared to Hero or CTHD.

[Mat]

I didn't see nearly as much promotion with Flying Daggers as I saw with Hero and Crouching Tiger. I think the biggest problem with Flying Daggers doing well in the US is that it really didn't have a star well-known in the west. Crouching Tiger had Chow Yun Fat, Hero had Jet Li. The biggest star Flying Dagger had (for US viewers at least) is Ziyi Zhang, and she isn't nearly as well known as the other two.

[KayTang999]

True about the stars but CTHD was like a fresh new air to Hollywood because there hasn't been an wuxia movie to hit US. Hero has Quintin's written all over it! (Even though it is not his). I think the company assume that Yimou and Ziyi would be able to carry the movie. I was wondering if Infernal Affairs has been released in US in theater, would it be any different since Andy Lau was in that movie. As for Kaneshiro, well I would be surprise if anyone actually recognized him from Onimusha.

[Tony Montana]

I just finished watching Kung Fu Hustle and seriously guys...

Run for it!!!! Kill for it!!! Go get it right now!!!!

This movie is ****ing incredible!!! I didnt have so much fun watching a movie for a while! You like kung fu?? You havent seen anything like this! So hillarious!

10/10 from me!

[carnage4u]

sounds good, but not released here yet, and i dont think its got a region 1 release.. i probably wont see thsi for 6 months to a year

took me 2 years to see shoulin soccer after i saw a preview for it.

[Tony Montana]

That guy should direct DragonballZ if they attend to make a movie version of it...

[masha lover]

sounds good, but not released here yet, and i dont think its got a region 1 release.. i probably wont see thsi for 6 months to a year
took me 2 years to see shoulin soccer after i saw a preview for it.
not exactly, there should be an all region ntsc dvd release this week around 2/25. will come back with a link once there is subtantial information on this dvd. actually there are couple of all region kung fu hustle dvds on ebay right now that supposedly plays in canada & us...but can't confirm 100% if the seller is legit.

[KayTang999]

That guy should direct DragonballZ if they attend to make a movie version of it...

As much as I like Stepen Chow, no. No one should ever touch Dragonball Z if their only attempt is to make a live-action version out of it even if the casts are Asians.

[rosncranz]

Kung Fu Hustle Review:

I loved Shaolin Soccer, one of my all time favorite movies, and probably my all time favorite comedy. I have seen other Stephen Chow movies since then, and they were not as good, some were quite bad actually, but some how I still love him. I was eagerly anticipating Kung Fu Hustle long before there were any pics or trailers, I have been dying to see this, but was also very hesitant.

This movie is a lot like Shaolin Soccer in many ways (such as the cast) but also a lot like Chow's earlier, and even though it doesnt seem possible, wierder movies. It is very brutal, there is some blood, lots of implied violence and quite a bit that is actually shown; not a kids movie. However, most of it is down in a cartoon way. You hear a lot about this being like a cartoon, well its all true, and it is brilliant. I didnt laugh as much as I had hoped, but still laughed alot, the fighting was great, I mean really good stuff, but Yuen Woo Ping was invovled so thats no surprise. The cameos, and inside jokes a great, and I too laughed like crazy at the knife throwing part! I love how Chow has crazy CG, and live action combined, and I also love how he always builds up to amazing climaxes, and manages to not disapoint. This is a very strange movie, but not as much as some of his other stuff, and I didnt find it as funny as Shaolin Soccer, though I might have liked it as much. This is top notch Stephen Chow, just ask the theater workers in China, great original stuff!!! But, just because you liked Shaolin Soccer doesnt mean you will like this, eventhough thats what many people are saying.

grade= A+

[cg124]

not exactly, there should be an all region ntsc dvd release this week around 2/25. will come back with a link once there is subtantial information on this dvd. actually there are couple of all region kung fu hustle dvds on ebay right now that supposedly plays in canada & us...but can't confirm 100% if the seller is legit.


serioiusly? thats awsome. I might pick this up on ebay sometime.

[masha lover]

good in-depth review by roscranz but left out one thing and others have not brought this up is that KFH has incredible music that blends so well from the 1st minute to the last scene. especially the ones involving the the mute girl WOW, very moving. seem liked the film was done by an asian john williams or hans zimmer.
at the moment ebay has quite a abit of all region 0 dvds available.

[rosncranz]

good in-depth review by roscranz but left out one thing and others have not brought this up is that KFH has incredible music that blends so well from the 1st minute to the last scene. especially the ones involving the the mute girl WOW, very moving. seem liked the film was done by an asian john williams or hans zimmer.
at the moment ebay has quite a abit of all region 0 dvds available.

damn, you're right it was great! so odd and perfect, i loved this movie so much i might go buy it again ;)

[droidguy1119]

I was in Chinatown and I found the movie on DVD. It's a rip of the R3, I think, and since I am not near my set-top I can't tell if it's R0 or not -- the DVD player on this computer didn't prompt me to change the region, though. The quality was perfect and the subtitles were fantastic.

Oh, yeah, and the movie was pretty awesome too. :D

[Tony Montana]

I would love to see it again at the cinema... but unfortunately it will not be shown in Austria... ****! Such a great movie but no screening...

[voyager2005]

BTW why is it rated R?
it didnt look unsuitable for children

I think its because of all the "violence" even though no one really gets killed or anything. There some scenes [not really a spoiler] like kids peeing on one another, stuff like that that the mpaa likes to get all huffy puffy I suppose [saw this in Aspen].

[voyager2005]

I saw this at a surprise screening at the Aspn Film Fest. Great film, very fun. Predictable plot and some of the sfx are overdone but you like shaolin soccer this is a good romp. Very silly at times and the story really doesn't make much sense but I don't think many people cared. It was standing room only in the theater (a fair sized one at that) and it got a standing ovation. :omg:

[poashaggy69]

w00t! just got free tickets to a screening in chicago! ooohhhh yeahhhh

[Cougars]

I loved Shaolin Soccer, just saw it not to long ago. I'll probably check out kung fu when it goes wide next week.

[JokerFish]

I havent laughed this hard in a long time.
My favorite scene would have to be the ones with the musicians.

[poashaggy69]

dang. I won free tickets but I never saw the advance screening.

Now I gots to wait till friday. SHUCKS!

[Psylent]

I was always a fan of Stephen Cho! I loved most of his movies, I think people would love his movies too if they just want a good laugh. My sister was just sending me the DVD, and hopefully it'll be as funny as I hoped because Shoalin Soccor wasn't his best work in my opinion, I liked it but it wasn't his best so hopefully KFH would be better.

[Psylent]

I just saw it last night, and I really liked it. It's stupid, yeah, but I really liked it. I was surprised, though, because I've never imagined Stephen Chow would allow his movie to be that dark and brutal, it's not like him.

Anyway, I loved it, and I don't care how anyone thinks it sucks.
*my thumbs are up for this film*

[Psylent]

I havent laughed this hard in a long time.
My favorite scene would have to be the ones with the musicians.
Yeah, that part was cool!http://www.comingsoon.net/forums/images/icons/icon14.gif :cool:

[rosncranz]

I just saw it last night, and I really liked it. It's stupid, yeah, but I really liked it. I was surprised, though, because I've never imagined Stephen Chow would allow his movie to be that dark and brutal, it's not like him.

Anyway, I loved it, and I don't care how anyone thinks it sucks.
*my thumbs are up for this film*

hmmmm, the post before you say you have seen a lot of his films, but then you say this. his movies always have some pretty damn violent stuff in them, either you lied when you said you are a big fan and you have seen a lot of his films, or you need to watch basically all of them again.

[fantasticfour40]

i might go see it. It looks interesting but I have no idea to what except.

[Ace]

i am so seeing this this weekend

[fantasticfour40]

I might check it out when I came back from the Bahamas.

[cg124]

I'm very glad this is getting alot of marketing. Hopefully if it makes enough money it will at least get a decent region 1 release

[rosncranz]

ya'll should know chow is planning a sequel...said he wants to because he has never done a sequel before and wants to see what its like...that's just brilliant. he is a god...(of cookery, gamblers etc. ;) )

[cg124]

cool. I think I should go out and see shaolin soccer now or maybe I should just buy it sometime?

[carnage4u]

buy it and buy it now ;)