| | Kung Fu Hustle Blu-ray
| Category | Blu-ray DVDs, Comedies Movies, Action/Adventure Videos, Action, Foreign Films, Crime, Martial Arts, Battles, Gangs, Kung Fu, Gangsters, Hong Kong, Chinese, Students, 1940s | | Starring | Stephen Chow, Qiu Yuen, Wah Yuen | | Director | Stephen Chow | | Action Director/Arranger | Yuen Woo-ping | | Composer | Raymond Wong | | Costume Designer | Shirley Chan | | Director of Photography | Hang-Sang Poon | | Editor | Angie Lam | | Producer | Jeff Lau | | Production Designer | Oliver Wong | | Screenwriter | Tseng Kan Cheong, Lola Huo, Chan Man Keung |
A hapless wanna be gangster, Sing, must overcome his inability to wield a knife and demonstrate his mettle in order to become a member of the notorious Axe Gang. The Axe Gang, meanwhile, want to reign supreme by occupying the most coveted territory, which is a sacred street protected by an unlikely cast of characters, many of whom are highly skilled kung fu masters disguised as ordinary people. After several encounters with thugs and a fearsome adversary known as the Beast, Sing overcomes his inadequacy and realizes he is the greatest kung fu master of them all, destined to protect the sacred street. Cast: Stephen Chow, Kwok Keun Chan, Siu Lung Leung, Yuen Wah, Yuen Qiu. 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. Theatrical Release: March 18, 2005 (Limited) Kung Fu Hustle Reviews: "[N]o one's ever captured the escapist thrill of a four-coloured splash panel as well as Chow does here."
-- Simon Lewis, Uncut "[I]n terms of physical timing, comic ideas and snap-crackle-pop filmmaking it buries any 10 other American comedies you can think of."
-- Michael Atkinson, 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 Staff, Uncut "[An] insanely entertaining smash-fantasy burlesque....You don't just watch it, you ride with it, laughing all the way."
-- Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly "For all its extreme cartoonish violence, KUNG FU HUSTLE is a surprisingly sweet and charming movie."-- Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times "The showstopping fight sequences are choreographed by the legendary Yuen Wo Ping and given an extra jolt of nutty inventiveness by some cheerfully crude digital effects."-- A. O. Scott, New York Times "That one can indeed call KUNG FU HUSTLE delightful reflects its wonderfully compelling, high wire sense of dreamy knockabout..."
-- Andrew Osmond, Sight and Sound "HUSTLE's approach to a simple good-vs.-evil plot is eccentrically exuberant."-- Claudia Puig, USA Today "[Chow is] a one-man comedy parade....[He] turns his characters into live-action cartoons and then, miraculously, makes it all ring true."
-- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone Kung Fu Hustle | List Price | $28.95 (You save $5.66) | | Studio | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment | | Orig Year | 2005 | | All Time Sales Rank |  31484  | | CD Universe Part number | 7066000 | | Catalog number | 15125 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Dec 12, 2006 | | Rating | R (MPAA) | | Rating Reason | sequences of strong stylized action and violence | | Also Known As | Gong fu | | Running Time | 99 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen; Dubbed; Subtitled | | Movie Details | Color; Widescreen; Dubbed; Subtitled |
Kung Fu Hustle Movie Review  Fantastic, funny kung-fu
Fans of "Shaolin Soccer" should buy this without thinking. It starts off a little slow but, it doesn't take long for the fun-fu to begin. It's awesome.
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 Do da hustle!
OMG!
This film is da Stewl.
I loved it to death and will watch scenes from it over and over again.
I never expected it to be as good as it is and I was blown away by its over the top effects.
TEW HEWGE 4 WERDS!!!!
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Loved it
It was funny and lots of good action moves. I loved it myself and watch it almost every day....
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This review is for a different format. Frecking funny
if you like slap stick, matrial arts, a decent plot and really stupid one liners then this is for you. I loved it and can't wait for the next one that this director ever makes.
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This review is for a different format. Funny
This movie is so fun to watch I watch it over ten times and it is still funny and fun get it, rent it, buy it! I don't care just see it
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