Kung Fu Hustle (Widescreen Edition) | 
 enlarge | Actors: Kwok Kuen Chan, Chi Ling Chiu, Xiao Lung Ding, Zhi Hua Dong, Xiaogang Feng
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  234 reviews
Sales Rank: 6262
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Original Language), English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 99
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 100 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 1404979972
UPC: 043396108820
EAN: 9781404979970
ASIN: B0009S4IHY
Theatrical Release Date: April 22, 2005
Release Date: August 9, 2005
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Description
Stephen Chow (director and star of Shaolin Soccer) is at it again with his newest action-packed and comedic martial-arts adventure, KUNG FU HUSTLE. From wildly imaginative kung fu showdowns to dance sequences featuring tuxedoed mobsters, you've never seen action this outrageous and characters this zany! With jaw-dropping fight sequences by Yuen Wo Ping (famed action choreographer of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and The Matrix), KUNG FU HUSTLE will blow you away! In a town ruled by the Axe Gang, Sing (Stephen Chow) desperately wants to become a member. He stumbles into a slum ruled by eccentric landlords who turn out to be kung fu masters in disguise. Sing's actions eventually cause the Axe Gang and the slumlords to engage in an explosive kung fu battle. Only one side will win and only one hero will emerge as the greatest kung fu master of all.
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 Original, innovative and brilliant. August 4, 2008
B. Nallick (Mpls, MN)
I wasn't sure what to expect when I popped this into the DVD player.
I loved Crouching Tiger and Hero, but a Martial Arts comedy???
My expectations were NOT high.
Surprise, surprise..........it's one of the best Martial Arts movies I've ever seen.
As for being a comedy, it's a very dark comedy which is right up my alley.
Well, pretty dark. Some of it isn't quite as dark, the looney tunes scenes with the lady with the rollers in her hair are fall off the couch funny.
The acting is great from everybody, there really isn't one performance that stands out, but considering it's a comedy........everyone does fine.
The FX are out of this world good, some of the best high wire combat moves I've ever seen.
Easily right up there with Crouching Tiger, and Hero.
Kung Fu Hustle has one thing so many movies are lacking.....atmosphere!!!
The part where the two guys (assassins) with the lap guitar (don't ask me what the instrument's name is, I don't know) is probably one of my favorite scenes in the movie, total atmosphere.
The music does exactly what it's supposed to do.
It adds to the movie when it calls for it, it never detracts from the movie.
Out of all the Martial Arts flick that have come to the U.S. recently I would have to say Kung Fu Hustle is easily one of my favorites.
It has the best high wire stunts from Crouching Tiger and Hero but it takes that formula and turns it into a somewhat dark comedy.
Brilliant!!!
Simply brilliant!!!
Do yourself a favor and check this one out.
Highly recommended!!!
Almost Perfect Comedic Storytelling June 3, 2008
DynomiteWins (Costa Mesa)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A fantastic lesson in comedic storytelling from Chinese cinema. A classic hero story with lots of over the top laughs. It seems that much of modern day comedy focuses on gags and doesn't place too much emphasis on an actual story. That's all fine and good - I love a good laugh as much as the next person - but Kung Fu Hustle manages to get in those gags and laughs without sacrificing the story.
I went into the theater thinking it was going to be a good-times cheesy Kung Fu parody... I left thinking it was the best movie I had seen all year.
Pure entertainment. April 2, 2008
Sahra Badou (Tokyo, Japan)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Great movie! Great cinematography! Great editing! Great acting! Great casting!
I loved this movie. From the perspective of a beginning movie maker (amateur), this movie was breathtaking. I loved the camera angles, costumes, props, and the action scenes. This is a really well done movie.
This is also the first movie I watch on my blu-ray player. I watched it on a high definition 42" Sony Bravia. The image was amazingly clear and crisp. Try one day to watch a movie with a VHS player, then DVD, then blu-ray. You'll see a big difference from one format to another (I actually have all three players and did this test on the same Sony Bravia).
In this movie you will find comedy, action, gore (lots of blood, but tastefully and comically done), and just pure entertainment. That's what movies are for! The movie is also philosophical, and ends with a touching romantic scene. Just beautiful!
Just as a note for those interested, many actors are fighting high definition. They find HD intruding on their facial inadequacies (for lack of a better word). For example, no actress wants us to see her wrinkles or a zit on her face. With HD, the image is so crisp that many details of a person's face (and body) can be captured by the camera that many actors are embarrassed. The only way to rectify this is by heavy make-up, lenses, or touching the image during editing.
 DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY! March 3, 2008
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0 out of 6 found this review helpful
I'm a big martial arts movie fan, and this just stunk. I don't know what all the hype is/was about. It is NOT funny. Not at all really. Kung Pow was a funny movie. This move is just really lame. Don't be fooled into buying it. Rent it on DVD and I'll bet my bottom dollar you won't want to watch it again. The only interesting scene was the fight scene with the musicians and the "ghostly" flying swords and knives. But one good scene, in the middle of a really bad movie, does little for me. A review from Entertainment Weekly says you'll be "... laughing all the way". Ya, right. Don't buy Entertainment Weekly either!
When you get headbutted by the toad style, you fly all the way upto the stratosphere and back. February 20, 2008
Vikram Ramanathan
(1) This one is a martial arts parody film co-written, co-produced, directed by and starring Stephen Chow.
(2) The plot centers around a poor Hong_kong semi-slum locality which defies surrendering to the opressive axe gang who are known for their looting and oppression.
(3) The Land Lord and land lady of this locality are superior kung-fu fighters which we come to know later on in the film
(4) Stephen Chow plays an axe-member wannabe. He wants to be part of the axe gang.
(5) There are 3 mind blowing action sequences in the film
(6) Setpiece 1: The axe gang come to intimidate and get the slum locality to bow down to them; Three of the dwellers in the locality happen to be super kung fu gurus; The three of them send the axe gang packing
(7) Setpiece2: Axe gang sends the world's 2nd best assasin team; 2 guys who by playing notes on a stringy-madarin kind of intrument,can summon and create swishing swords, arrows, axes all from thin air from the vibration of the musical notes and these weapon are flung onto the the 3 saviors of the slum locality. The assasins kill all three of the saviors.
(8) This brings the landlord and landlandy into the foray; The landlord can do superior kungfu and the landy apart from kung fu has a scream that shatters glass, stone, anything.
(9) The landlord/landlady team team up against the No 1 killer of all. He had been locked up in a cell, but is freed by the axe gang to kill the landlord/landady team after the musical killer assasin team fails to kill LL/LL team. This killer is No 1 because apart from being a kung fu master as everyone in this movie obviously is, he has the speciality of being so fast as to even catch a bullet with his fingers.
(10) Major setpiece 3: The LL/LL team fight their hearts out, and finally we get the stephen chow's matrix parody "the one" experience. There is the famous paraody of the matrix reloaded sequence where Keannu fights 100's of agent miths. Here we have 100 of axe gang members against stephen Chow who has had a change of heart and has turned against the axe gang.
(11) In this action setpiece we see the "crouching tiger, hidden dragon" physics defying fly-kicking spiderman gravity defying kungfu. We see the all new toad style, where the villain very much becomes a toad. We also see the farthest a human being travels (upto the stratosphere actually) when getting head butted via someone conversant with the toad style of kung fu. Incidentally Stephen chow goes so high up, he puts his feet on an eagle and becomes as light as the bird and floats around before zooming back in with friction burn like one of them spiralling down satellites before he just uses his palm of "the one" and makes a devastating handprint on the earth big enough to cover 5 men.
A novel and insane comic caper with great special effects. A movie which makes fun of the kungfu genre and at the same time hieghtens this surreal kung fu experience.
regards, VIkram
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