Kung Fu Hustle

Name: Kung Fu Hustle
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Released: 2004-02-10
Duration: 99 min

So many gangsters… so little time.

20041h 39mcritics 7.5/10

Action Comedy Crime Fantasy

It's the 1940s, and the notorious Axe Gang terrorizes Shanghai. Small-time criminals Sing and Bone hope to join, but they only manage to make lots of very dangerous enemies. Fortunately for them, kung fu masters and hidden strength can be found in unlikely places. Now they just have to take on the entire Axe Gang.

starring Stephen Chow, Yuen Qiu, Yuen Wah, Lam Tze-Chung

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Read from 126 comments (102 from Reddit, 23 from Metacritic, 1 from TMDB reviews) — 19 of them described how it moves.

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Reddit57 read

“No better scene in a movie then when Fat Woman is threatening head boss of the Axe Gang with no words. I laugh every time.”
HokieSpeed▲ 76about 33–66% inread it ↗
“the slow pan through the slums at night that just shows everyone going about their usual life. Not my *favorite* scene, but it was nice.”
caspissinclair▲ 54about 0–10% inread it ↗
“The music, action, fx, editing of the scene creates a rollercoaster of pacing.”
YouMad▲ 17about 33–66% inread it ↗
“Being the idiot that I am I spent the first 3/4 of the movie wondering how this was an adaption of "Journey to the West"”
TheUltimateTeaCup▲ 9about 0–75% inread it ↗

Metacritic2 read

“Kung Fu Hustle hustle features some great over the top fight scenes and is genuinely funny to boot.”
drlowdonread it ↗
“Wacky, cartoonish martial arts action with a big CGI budget and rampant imagination, irreverent in the same way as Stephen Chow's preceding work, Shaolin Soccer. Kung Fu Hustle is very much a case of style over substance, as the plot only serves to move us from one outrageous set piece spectacle to the next, and makes no bones about it. That's Chow's style, with far more focus on effects-laden fighting techniques than inscrutable storytelling, and it works for him. We're treated to dozens of uni”
drqshadowread it ↗

TMDB1 read

“Quite an experience, and in a great way as well! Went into this one totally blind as to its contents, truth is, is that I was mooching round the shops yesterday and came across an Asian triple pack DVD at a bargain price, since one of the films was Jet Li starrer Unleashed, i thought it was worth the cheap price on offer. Got home and the write up on the back of the case didn't give much away as regards plot for Kung Fu Hustle, an Axe Gang, some guy named Sing wants to be in the gang, and th”
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