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Kung Fu Hustle
A hapless gangster aspires to join the dreaded Axe Gang while residents of a housing complex have some retired Kung fu masters who exhibit extraordinary powers in defending their turf.
11 February 1983, Shanghai, China
1943, Hong Kong
16 August 1976, Hong Kong
27 December 1978, Shandong, China
12 September 1948, Shaxi, Zhonghsan, Guangdong Province, China
8 July 1964, Tianjin, China
9 June 1961, Hong Kong
April 29, 2009
A smart and very funny action comedy that will really knock your socks off.April 22, 2005
Retrieving the martial arts movie from the gentrified middlebrow tastefulness of movies like House of Flying Daggers is only one item on Kung Fu Hustle's agenda.September 26, 2005
A film where special effects erase physics and the constraints of the human body, there's absolutely no telling what will come next.December 27, 2007
Keeps the gags flying almost as rapidly as the fists.August 07, 2008
Gravity takes a backseat to levity.May 20, 2005
Kung Fu Hustle snaps and crackles like nuclear popcorn on a scorching griddle.May 12, 2006
Chow's movie may seem nutty on the surface, but its slyness, its dreamy unfolding of so many moods and genres, becomes intoxicating.April 22, 2005
But for all its stylishness, verve and moments of visual poetry, the relentlessly punishing slapstick and overall cruel tone left me cold.November 19, 2013
Chow is a genius in generating extraordinary drama from the familiar.November 01, 2007
So disarmingly eager to please that only a stone-faced kung fu purist could object.April 16, 2009
The ever-shifting genre of martial arts films takes on yet another variation with writer/director/actor Stephen Chow's CGI spectacle infused comic Kung Fu adventure.