Loved it , funny lots of action
This is one of my favorite movies. The action and comedy is pretty much relentless. Someone mentioned that it slows down a bit at the end and I do agree with that, but I still like the ending overall. I'll always keep this movie in my collection, it holds up well to re-watches.
His best movie hands down.
It was his first movie i ever saw, and ive been binging his stuff eversince.
If you want to see what Stephen Chow is all about, start with this movie!
Wacky, cartoonish martial arts action with a big CGI budget and rampant imagination, similar in tone to Stephen Chow's preceding work, Shaolin Soccer. It's 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 unique forms, from countless unexpected sources, as nearly every denizen of a dusty, lower-class slum turns out to be a kung fu master of some sort. Most memorable, of course, is the chain-smoking old landlady, who batters every comer and effortlessly steals each scene without even pausing to pull the curlers from her hair.
It's indulgent and silly, watery and childish, but it's also richly entertaining and singularly stylish. Great background party-viewing material.
Looney Tunes ahh movie :sob::sob:
Pretty funny comedies with some well-done fight scenes. The CGI was funny as well.
After see this movie: now I know rings of power's action scenes are adopted from where!
"I didn't know the Lion's Roar...could be done with a speaker."
Very underwhelming. Hell, that may even be an understatement. I went into this film expecting to be relatively entertained because so many familiar reaction channels on Youtube have reacted to this film and seemingly loved the hell out of it. Not only that, it seems like the majority of people, overall, feel the same way. Well, I don't. So, I pretty much think this film is massively overrated.
Yeah, this film is super goofy and "fun." Different, especially, perhaps in a way no other films are. Or not many other films are. And that's great and all. I feel like style over substance isn't a problem for me, and I would've probably thought it would never matter. Yet this time, it did. You learn something new every day, huh? The sound effects, visual effects, visual gags, pure stupidity, and so on were there. But I didn't care.
The highlight was the fight choreography. At least when it was practical, not necessarily when it involved visual effects. But I guess, in general, the fight choreography was quite good. I know, for most people, the highlight(s) is probably the visual gags or the visual effects or anything else in the film. I don't know. I didn't seem to care about any of that, or anything throughout the film, for that matter.
Another highlight worth mentioning is the soundtrack. Some may think it sounded too "basic." In the sense that it's similar-sounding to what you'd expect to hear. Traditional. And like how a lot of pop music sounds similar. But that didn't make it any less immersive or great to hear.
I guess I'm just very disappointed. There are probably "similar" films out there that I'd like a lot and be pretty entertained by them, but, for some reason, this film wasn't one of them. Maybe the fact that it's a foreign film had something to do with it. For some reason, I was expecting this to be an English-speaking film.
No, thank you. Films that aren't in English are not for me.
Other thoughts:
Danny Chan Kwok-kwan/Danny Kwok-Kwan Chan reminded me of Andrew Koji. A lot. I know a lot of people attribute his likeness to Bruce Lee. But I saw Andrew Koji.
The beginning of the final score brought me to a Metal Gear Solid game; specifically, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. I feel like it sounded similar to a score you'd hear in that game. I guess it's because of, what I'd assume there to be, the similarities between Japanese and Chinese things; music, in this case.
Stephen Chow approaches the very real discipline of kung-fu in the way I view most kung-fu movies, it is all a bit silly, a bit preposterous and really should not be taken too seriously. Therefore, it is obvious that this type of kung-fu movie would appeal to me more than the kill everyone, dead serious, ‘look at this, ‘look at that’ kung-fu movies that have been made over the decades.
Imagination is no limitation to Chow and here we see deaths, cartoon violence and wirework all thrown together to make an action-packed laugh-filled movie.
The story is packed with dance-sequences, jaw-dropping martial arts fight sequences that are never ever taken seriously. It is a cartoon made flesh.
Chow is without doubt the anti-hero for most of the running time and it must be said he subverts your expectations as characters come to the forefront, seem to be the focus and then drift away, die or change their viewpoint.
The style is slapstick and daft in the main but with the storyline, the action, it makes sense and with Chow and his ‘teams’ acting and timing it works perfectly and in lesser hands it could have been a dull disaster. The line is fine and the skill in getting this correct cannot be underestimated.
In particular one sequence had me actually ‘laughing-out-loud’ and chucking about it long after it had passed, well known by viewers and fans of the film the knife attack and snakes in the box scene is very funny and skilfully put together. A masterclass in a simple slapstick, comedy-of-errors, set-up, ‘Who threw a handle?’ indeed.
Not afraid to use computer effects for the snakes, daggers and axe attacks Chow mixes the traditional kung-fu balletic choreography with more modern methods and once again he melded them almost seamlessly.
No film is perfect there are moments that jar and moments that do not quite work but in such a frenetic and fun-filled action comedy the target is going to missed from time to time. The story, such as there is, slightly confuses you but in reality we are here to sit in watch the fun, laugh and have a good time.
Stephen Chow delivers this fully and even if you do not like silly comedy or kung-fu too much it would still pay you to watch Kung-Fu Hustle on a rainy boring day when you need cheering up. It is fun, colourful and entertaining – you cannot really ask for much more.
Has a really strong start but unfortunately drops off towards the end.
Shout by Sunny SenpaiBlockedParent2017-04-29T12:39:56Z
I nearly died at that cigarette scene xD