Stephen Chow is back, and bigger and better than ever. Kung-Fu Hustle has devastated all previous box office records amidst one of the poorest years in Hong Kong cinema history. An explosive mix of Chow’s classic fast-talking loser-makes-good style comedy, with everything you loved about Shaolin Soccer, CGG (Computer Generated Graphics) that must have cost more than the GNP of some small nations, and the fact that this film needs no plot – has combined to make one of the greatest marketing successes in Asian filmmaking history.
Release Date: April 8, 2005 (NY, LA; Worldwide release: April 22)
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Posted by little_nemo
I’ve actually seen this movie already…my uncle got his hands on an imported copy…and i must say, this movie is hilarious…the special effects are crazy…but i wasnt to crazy about the story line…although id still recommed that you go and see this movie when it comes out in the states…i just hope they havnt cut out too much stuff, if anything
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Posted by Zhao
With best picture HK film award, its worth checking out, shaolin soccer was pretty good and wondering how this movie comes up to par.
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Posted by neokai
Saw it last week on DVD. I love it. Unfortunately, the American version of his previous film, Shaolin Soccer, was neutered for its American release with edits and a different soundtrack. Part of what’s great about these two movies is precisely the music to couple with the over-the-top antics and melodrama. The subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) parodies are often lost across cultural boundaries as well. I particularly enjoyed the allusion back to Shaolin Soccer in an early scene in Kung Fu Hustle. Anyone else catch it?
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Posted by lovedoctor
I saw this back in Hong Kong when it first came out in the theaters. Packed house man. That Shaolin Soccer scene was pretty good, even funnier when he stomped on the ball lol. But around the middle part of the movie, there was a scene where mummies with swords were coming out of that musical instrument, that was pretty cool. It looked the same as the scene in the movie “The Mummy”. There’s also some facts that some of you people wouldn’t know about the actors. The “coolie” is in fact from the Shaolin Temple. The gay/sissy dude is the student of the famous “toothbrush beard”—if you know chinese and watch the “Wong Fei Hung” series, then you would know who I’m talking about. And that lady, she’s from the same gang as Jacky Chan, Sammo Hung, and others. So alot of the movie is real martial arts in action.
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Posted by neokai
Exactly, the movie is full of inside jokes. Similar to the Matrix, what you get out of the movie is about what you know.
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