Kung-Fu Hustle [Archive]

fireyhope

04-17-05, 05:53 PM

Recently i have seen Kung fu hustle, Personally if you like Slap Stick Comedy mixed with Stylistic Kung Fu then you will enjoy it, The movie uses Some of the same Formulas as other Stephen Chow movies

Like his bruce lee parody, and always adding this one sad dramatic love story into his movies.

Watch it when it comes out! i hope you guys won't be dissapointed
and yes i watched the trailer and it doesn't look so good but trust me! it's a good movie Filled with American Jokes too which in my opinion is very cool because Stephen Chow is now pleasing not only asian people but also American

here is the Official kung fu hustle website if anybody is interested
http://www.sonyclassics.com/kungfuhustle/index_en.php

Jedi Rufio

04-17-05, 06:04 PM

I really want to see it. Is it anything like Kung Pow?

fireyhope

04-17-05, 06:06 PM

I really want to see it. Is it anything like Kung Pow?

Nope it's MUCH better then Kung Pow.

Kung Pow was like the Stupidest of Stupidest funny type comedy.

Stephen Chow's Kung Fu hustle is somewhat stupid but not that stupid and has jokes referring to american movies and audiences and has some smart jokes. And Kung Fu hustle is more serious then Kung Pow.

Kung Fu hustle also has elements of Buster Keaton in the movie =)

Holden Pike

04-17-05, 06:23 PM

I saw Kung Fu Hustle about two months ago.

It was dumb fun in spots, but absolutely nothing more, and the same schtick over and over again became tiresome by the second half of the movie. It was worth seeing I suppose, and anyone who is bigtime into Hong Kong action or is a boy between the ages of nine and fifteen will likely love it, but Kung Fu Hustle is just doepy nonsense. Kind of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon by way of Dumb & Dumber. I laughed only a few scattered times, and it never had me rolling (save for the attempted assassintaion with the knives, which was on the level of Buster Keaton perfection), and all the extended CGI cartoony fights just became dull and tedious by the time the Beast is released. Casting the Masters they way they did was a fun gag...you know, the first few times it was revealed. Then it was overkill like everything else. The Western pop-culture references, like The Untouchables, The Shining, Spider-Man and the Looney Tunes, were about as amusing as Scary Movie 2 and certainly not the stuff of say Blazing Saddles or even The Kentucky Fried Movie. Frankly, overall I'll take John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China over Kung Fu Hustle every day of the week.

This is a wait-for-video flick. There is absolutely no reason to rush out and see it.

GRADE: C+

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I really want to see it. Is it anything like Kung Pow?

Some similar humor to Kung Pow: Enter the Fist, but between the two I'll take Steve Oedekerk's silliness over Chow's.

fireyhope

04-17-05, 06:33 PM

I saw Kung-Fu Hustle about two months ago.

It was dumb fun in spots, but absolutely nothing more, and the same schtick over and over again became tiresome by the second half of the movie. It was worth seeing I suppose, and anyone who is bigtime into Hong Kong action or is a boy between the ages of nine and fifteen will likely love it, but Kung Fu Hustle is just doepy nonsense. Kind of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon by way of Dumb & Dumber. I laughed only a few scattered times, and it never had me rolling (save for the attempted assassintaion with the knives, which was on the level of Buster Keaton perfection), and all the extended CGI cartoony fights just became dull and tedious by the time the Beast is released. Casting the Masters they way they did was a fun gag...you know, the first few times it was revealed. Then it was overkill like everything else. The Western pop-culture references, like The Untouchables, The Shining, Spider-Man and the Looney Tunes, were about as amusing as Scary Movie 2 and certainly not the stuff of say Blazing Saddles or even The Kentucky Fried Movie. Frankly, overall I'll take John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China over Kung Fu Hustle every day of the week.

This is a wait-for-video flick. There is absolutely no reason to ruch out and see it.

GRADE: C+

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I whole heartedly Disagree

also http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/kung_fu_hustle/
getting very good reviews

and just in 7 theathres the movie earned more then 400thousand dollars

i don't know how you can call the Whole cartoon scene tedious because they didn't show too many cartoon references. The movie was also a perfect balance of Action, Comedy, melded in with some drama.

Also the storyline is not much different from Old School Kung Fu Flicks and pays a Homage to one of the Comedic Shaw Brothers movies.

And i don't think it was a kill, The CGI cartoony fight with the beast was amazing because of Yuen Woo Ping's Style of coreogrophy and it was also a PARODY to how cartoony Matrix was.

"The Western pop-culture references, like The Untouchables, The Shining, Spider-Man and the Looney Tunes, were about as amusing as Scary Movie 2"

I disagree Scary Movie 2 Told in way different ways and was very out of the line in so many things.

In Kung Fu Hustle they added some small Parodies that were not So Over The Top and Have a totally different feel then Scary Movie 2.

Scary movies 2 was also a movie with alot of Sex Jokes while Kung Fu Hustle has none.

"Casting the Masters they way they did was a fun gag...you know, the first few times it was revealed."

actually this wasn't really a gag this is how some of the old school Kung Fu Flicks are

"It was worth seeing I suppose, and anyone who is bigtime into Hong Kong action or is a boy between the ages of nine and fifteen will likely love it,"

This movie is the highest grossing movie ever made in HK and was a BlockBuster in Asia and also Won The best movie AWARD in HK

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I really want to see it. Is it anything like Kung Pow?

Some similar humor to Kung Pow: Enter the Fist, but between the two I'll take Steve Oedekerk's silliness over Chow's."

This is sad, *sigh* i guess it's just different opinions but Steve Oedekerk's Humor is nothing compared to Chow's

Holden Pike

04-17-05, 06:38 PM

I whole heartedly Disagree

also http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/kung_fu_hustle/
getting very good reviews

and just in 7 theathres the movie earned more then 400thousand dollars

This movie is the highest grossing movie ever made in HK and was a BlockBuster in Asia and also Won The best movie AWARD in HK

And I wholeheartedly disagree with you. Isn't this fun?

What fu*king difference does it make what the reviews are or how much money or what awards it has won? Is that supposed to change my personal opinion? Well, it doesn't. I still think it's very average, a one-note idea that becomes tiresome very, very quickly.

*sigh* I guess it's just different opinions

No guessing about it.

fireyhope

04-17-05, 06:43 PM

one thing i also want to mention is that Chow's movies usually have some kind Musical Dance going on, and also as i said already uses drama elements into the movie.

When You watch Kung Fu Hustle don't expect it to be the funniest movie ever. But Though you'll get the Usual Sarcastic Chow jokes and i praise his thoughtfullness in Balancing the Jokes well enough rather then in movies like Scary Movies2 and Kung Pow there is non stop gags without a real solid storyline.

also You are right though, Blazing saddles though YOU might enjoy it more because you don't understand it as much Chinese references the movie has and Don't Enjoy Kung Fu Parodies as much because BLazing Saddles was Soley MAde for americans

While Kung Fu Hustle was made for both audiences which is much better in my opinion

fireyhope

04-17-05, 06:45 PM

And I wholeheartedly disagree with you. Isn't this fun?

What fu*king difference does it make what the reviews are or how much money or what awards it has won? Is that supposed to change my personal opinion? Well, it doesn't. I still think it's very average, a one-note idea that becomes tiresome very, very quickly.

No guessing about it.

What difference? there are alot of differences and i wasn't trying to change your opinion i was just proving how wrong your opinion was.
You still think it's very average and it definately is not on a one note idea the movie portrays different ideas never before used so well in many movies.
And what? we have to refer to Swearing Now? i thought u were much more mature then that

Holden Pike

04-17-05, 06:50 PM

What difference? there are alot of differences and i wasn't trying to change your opinion i was just proving how wrong your opinion was.

Actually, it doesn't make my opinion "wrong" at all. How sad that you think so. I guess by that same logic you also think Titanic is the greatest movie of all time. It must be fun getting your opinions from what the majority thinks. If not fun, at least it's easy.

And what? we have to refer to Swearing Now? i thought u were much more mature then that

Then you don't know me very well. Or at all. I cuss like a sailor!

fireyhope

04-17-05, 06:53 PM

Actually, it doesn't make my opinion "wrong" at all. How sad that you think so. I guess by that same logic you also think Titanic is the greatest movie of all time. It must be fun getting your opinions from what the majority thinks. If not fun, at least it's easy.

Then you don't know me very well. Or at all. I cuss like a sailor!

No i just wanted to PROVE your opinion wrong,which also doesn't exactly make your opinion wrong. and no i don't think Titanic was the best movie ever but is one of the best. and it must be fun for you to be constantly swearing.

Why would i want to know you? you cuss therefore you're RUDE

OG-

04-17-05, 07:03 PM

Well **** me silly, I side with Holds.

I do admit I was originally lulled and sweet talked by Kung Fu Hustle when I saw it a few months back. I thought it was the perfect blend, just as you do fireyhope, so much so that I showed it to a bunch of friends. Second time around it's not so grand. The CGI changes from loose and silly to borderline offensive. The jokes that were funny the first time around were still funny the second time around, but the rest of the humor faded away. And as a whole the action was very sub-par.

Though I still do stand by the musician sequence being one of the most imaginative and plucked from a dream sequences I've ever seen. It was handled with such care and zeal that it is easily the highlight of the movie for me.

I love the begining, I love the little dance with the shotgun and I love the first 20 minutes or so of the ghetto, but it buckles inwards under the weight of it's own absurdity.

EDIT: For your consideration. (http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2002-10-11&res=l)

Holden Pike

04-17-05, 07:12 PM

Well **** me silly, I side with Holds.

I do admit I was originally lulled and sweet talked by Kung Fu Hustle when I saw it a few months back. I thought it was the perfect blend, just as you do fireyhope, so much so that I showed it to a bunch of friends. Second time around it's not so grand. The CGI changes from loose and silly to borderline offensive. The jokes that were funny the first time around were still funny the second time around, but the rest of the humor faded away. And as a whole the action was very sub-par.

Though I still do stand by the musician sequence being one of the most imaginative and plucked from a dream sequences I've ever seen. It was handled with such care and zeal that it is easily the highlight of the movie for me.

I love the begining, I love the little dance with the shotgun and I love the first 20 minutes or so of the ghetto, but it buckles inwards under the weight of it's own absurdity.

Too bad you're so very, very wrong, OG-. I guess you didn't realize Lou Lumenick of the NEW YORK POST declared "Kung Fu Hustle is an absolute hoot", and it won some awards in Asia.

Hurts to be proved wrong, don't it?

fireyhope

04-17-05, 07:12 PM

fireyhope

04-17-05, 07:14 PM

Too bad you're so wrong, OG-. Lou Lumenick of the NEW YORK POST declares "Kung Fu Hustle is an absolute hoot", and it won some awards in Asia.

Hurts to be proved wrong, don't it?

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/kung_fu_hustle/

fresh 51
rotten 8

wow 1 critic you mention doesn't like it! amazing! And what? some of the best movies will eventually get bashed by someone sometime. there is no perfect movie

and Yes it did win Awards in Asia and won the best movie award in Asia.

OG-

04-17-05, 07:23 PM

Too bad you're so very, very wrong, OG-. I guess you didn't realize Lou Lumenick of the NEW YORK POST declared "Kung Fu Hustle is an absolute hoot", and it won some awards in Asia.

Hurts to be proved wrong, don't it?

All that's left is a bottle, some pills, a knife and my throat.

wow 1 critic you mention doesn't like it! amazing! And what? some of the best movies will eventually get bashed by someone sometime. there is no perfect movie

Maybe I'm not as adept a reader as I thought I was, but I'm pretty sure Holden's cited critic liked the movie. Unless we're calling endorsements bashes these days?

Holden Pike

04-17-05, 07:28 PM

Maybe I'm not as adept a reader as I thought I was, but I'm pretty sure Holden's cited critic liked the movie. Unless we're calling endorsements bashes these days?

Why worry about reading comprehension at this point?

Sorry, I mean why in the fu*k worry about reading comprehension and ***** at this damn point?

LordSlaytan

04-17-05, 07:39 PM

Hmm…someone feeling like a negative review of a movie that he/she loves is somehow something to get all up in arms about…that’s new. :laugh:

Don’t worry about people not liking Kung Fu Hustle as much as you; you still have an enormous company of people who do to keep you chatting for days. I don’t know of any other people other than us four that have seen it here, though. Just remember: there are people here that don’t like films that only say so by saying they don’t…at least Holden and OG- have pointed out exactly why they aren’t going to join you in fawning all over it. People just saying, “It sux!” is much more frustrating.

Personally, Kung Fu Hustle was one of my most anticipated films of the Spring, and it was because of the trailer (which I think is spectacular) exclusively, because I’ve never seen Shoalin Soccer. I didn’t hate it, but I was disappointed. The trailer made it look as if it where going to be this really amazing and unreal…surreal…experience, but it ended up being nothing more than sight gags, winking nods at specific genres, and lots and lots of taking little jokes and running with them…one step too far.

I agree with Holden where he mentions the knife sequence being the funniest, and best part of the film. But even that really great moment is taken one step too far. It’s like Chow thinks up a funny sequence and can’t let it go until the last chuckle has been completed. It kind of ruins the funny moment when you stop to think that the last gag was unnecessary. Oh well.

I’d grade it as a solid B instead of the C+ Holden gives it, mainly because it reaches its target audience so well and has a strong heart to it…not too mention that I’m an old softy.

BTW: I’m probably the only person to get a little turned on by the Landlady after she drops her curlers and scarf pretenses. What the hell is wrong with me?

OG-

04-17-05, 07:45 PM

BTW: I’m probably the only person to get a little turned on by the Landlady after she drops her curlers and scarf pretenses. What the hell is wrong with me?

Don't talk to me ever again.

LordSlaytan

04-17-05, 07:51 PM

What?! She has a pretty face when it doesn't have a sneer or cig on/in it. Not to mention she's quite round. I kinda like round.

fireyhope

04-17-05, 07:55 PM

What?! She has a pretty face when it doesn't have a sneer or cig on/in it. Not to mention she's quite round. I kinda like round.

i am suprised you didn't talk about how the landlady looks like when she is about to do the lions roar

LordSlaytan

04-17-05, 07:58 PM

i am suprised you didn't talk about how the landlady looks like when she is about to do the lions roarThat's the mental image I'm drawing from. :laugh: I looked for a pic of it, but couldn't find it.

It reminds of Jell-O. Jell-O is sexy.

*EDIT: Oh...I see. CGI makes her slender with big boobs when she inhales, then after she exhales, her boobs drop to her knees. Not as sexy as I thought. Oh well...I've done much, much, sicker things than fantasize about her.

fireyhope

04-17-05, 08:02 PM

That's the mental image I'm drawing from. :laugh: I looked for a pic of it, but couldn't find it.

It reminds of Jell-O. Jell-O is sexy.

Well i have a present for you!
http://www.movieforums.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=4821&stc=1

The Sarge

04-18-05, 09:04 AM

Loved it.
Liked it even more because i got it from www.cdwow.com for £10.

LordSlaytan

04-18-05, 11:58 AM

What is that...a bootleg site?

projectMayhem

04-18-05, 12:03 PM

My friends and I were supposed to go see this last night at the Film Festival here, but my friend's car broke down along the way. Looks like I'll have to wait until Friday now, hopefully. I just watcehd Shaolin Soccer again last night and like it a lot more than the first time I watched it, mainly due to the fact that I watched the U.S. version initially. Worst part of the whole thing is I had to preorder the tickets a few days in advance to make sure we had them, which cost me $50, and the damn Festival people refused to give me my money back.

Figures the non-for profit organization was the one to rip me off, most theaters would have given me my money back.

Sinny McGuffins

04-18-05, 01:06 PM

What is that...a bootleg site?It's just a site that sells DVDs from differnt regions, mainly region 2 stuff.

LordSlaytan

04-18-05, 01:10 PM

It already has The Aviator...that's why I was asking.

Sinny McGuffins

04-18-05, 01:20 PM

It's only there for pre-orders. If you look underneath the region 1 release it says, "Release/Despatch Date: Tuesday 24 May".

Unfortunately, it says "Release/Despatch Date: Monday 25 Juyl" under the region 2 release. :indifferent:

LordSlaytan

04-18-05, 01:22 PM

Ah...I see. Thanks for the clarification.

Darth Stujitzu

06-30-05, 09:07 PM

Kung Fu Hustle

O.K., here's my two cents worth.
It was Big Dumb Fun, and hey I was in the mood. This film's not perfect, but it was a hell of a lot better than Shaolin Soccer. There were many weaknesses in this film, and normally I'm a huge opponent of CGI, but it was used to comical cartoon effect here, so I didn't mind as much. The fight scenes were good, but not spectacular, and the humour was a little too Old School Asian for me at times(anyone remember the tv series Monkey??? Hahaha,hohoho)
What I would like to see is Stephen Chow in a series martial arts movie, he uses a lot of traditional fighting styles in his films, and IMO he could cut it as a series movie star.
Anyway, Grasshopper, I'm off to walk across rice-paper without leaving a trace, hiiiiiiiiiiiiya!!! Rating 3/5 Chop-sockey fun. :goof:

Pyro Tramp

07-01-05, 10:33 AM

I liked it. Got it on DVD while ago, nice little Asian treat. Didn't like the way it tried to surpass Shaolin Soccer with more crazy effects, and didn't like the cgi lips or the running but otherwise fun, fun, fun. 4.5/5

Tainted_Love

07-03-05, 03:40 AM

got pulled aside in the mall for a market research about the preview, i thought it looked pretty funny, ill have to see it when it hits theatres, and try and put my own opinions together =D

defjukie

07-05-05, 08:40 PM

yea i have it on dvd, but i haven't had a chance to watch it yet.

christine

07-13-05, 07:19 PM

What is that...a bootleg site?

cdwow is a proper site, not a bootleg one.

For the record I loved Kung Fu Hustle, as well as the more blatent slaspstick there was quite a bit of sly humour. Made me laugh lots anyway, and whats to take seriously?

Son Of A Preacher Man

07-17-05, 02:54 AM

I went into this movie with high expectations and I was very disappointed.
I was expecting something like Iron Monkey, but Iron Monkey owns this movie.
And I don't think this movie was that funny! Everyone go see Iron Monkey!

MrZeldaFan

07-30-05, 09:02 PM

This movie is trash. 2/10. Even worse than Kung Pow! Enter The Fist...

christine

07-30-05, 09:07 PM

How can KFH be compared to Iron Monkey? KFH was always advertised and talked about as an out and out funny film.

inibriated

08-22-05, 01:14 PM

i take it i shoudl see iron monkey, i also dont think hustles was all that good it lacked humuor really, there should be another kungpow

ruby07

08-31-05, 07:57 AM

i think it was a great movie! it was hilarious! but i like shaolin soccer more.
all kung fu hustle fans, there's a new one coming out, it's kung fu mahjong. the other cast are there, landlady and her husband, etc.

FelixS

10-12-05, 09:32 AM

"His Qi power has been released!" pfffft.

But seriously, i enjoyed this film not because of the story but mainly by those cool guys with the invisible flying daggers shot from a guitar thingy. who gives a sh*t if CGI is "overused" if it used well then good luck to it. jeez

superwinner

10-13-05, 05:20 PM

I thought Kung-FU Hustle was great! You have to watch it with sub titles not dubbing. It is worth reading b/c the translation is different with dubbing and it is fun to hear the characters when they get mad and excited. That part doesn't translate well into English. Good movie. Especially if you are in to Kung-Fu movies!