Kung Fu Hustle

[johnboysmole]

Has anyone seen Kung Fu Hustle? It looks like a great kung fu flick and hysterical as well! I'm going to try to see it this weekend!

I just wanted to get some opinions!

[gatitamala]

My husband and I saw it last Saturday, and we both laughed until we cried. It's hysterically funny, and the special effects actually add to the plot, rather than detracting from it. I'd go see it again in a heartbeat.

[Malle Babbe]

I saw this movie with a friend of mine, and we both sat with our jaws in our laps, it was so awesome. It IS subtitled, but you stop noticing ~5min. into the flick.

What I liked was that it was an action-comedy with a lot of heart in it. Decent, if kinda goofy people taking on thugs and all that.

[mimsie]

Mr. Mimsie and I were at the cineplex 20 last Sunday afternoon watching The Interpreter with about 6 other people. The theater next door was showing Fung Fu Hustle to a packed audience. We could hear cheering and laughing almost the entire time. "Guess we're in the wrong movie," said Mr. Mimsie. Guess I'll have to watch this then.

[sjankis630]

Good movie, not quite great. I did laugh till I cried at the knife throwing scene. For some inexplicable reason, it has been rated R. I don't get that , as I was about to recommend it to some friends whose kids wanted to see it , but the rating has them scared. Is it for the opening 5-10 minutes? It can't be for the rest because I would consider this movie to be mostly tame.

[sumire]

Good movie, not quite great. I did laugh till I cried at the knife throwing scene.

That's exactly the way I felt, sjankis630! The funniness just... went away... towards the end (as opposed to Shaolin Soccer, which meanders for a while but comes together in the latter half). If Stephen Chow weren't so cute, I would have been pretty bored in parts.

However, my mom has been raving about it to all her contemporaries, so I guess it has some mass appeal.

Re: the R rating--a lot of kids would (and did) enjoy the movie, and the cameras usually avoid showing the graphic bits, but it was a little... less tame... than I was expecting. For example (spoilers):

--the gangster's moll being shot in the back after pleading for mercy
--the cat decapitation shown in silhouette (funny, in a sick way, but the splatter of gore was pushing it)
--likewise, one of the good guys being caught unawares and getting his head cut off without a chance to fight back
--the hero's head getting pounded so far into the floor, you can't see it anymore (kids will probably just find it cartoony, unless they've seen Irreversible like I have.)
--I don't think the MPAA really likes for children to see people with knives sticking out of them, either.

Also, they showed the bullies-peeing-on-a-kid scene not once but twice, and there's that guy who always wears his pants below the butt.

None of the kids in my showing seemed traumatized, but the combined weight of all of the above make it not quite suitable for a Sunday-School outing.

[heavenwithagun]

Just as stylish as Sin City but not as sinister.

[ldhenson]

Fabulous. I finally got around to seeing it this weekend with a nearly-full house, and the audience pretty much laughed until they choked. I, too, was a bit surprised by all the less-family-friendly bits, which felt a little gratuitous, but the good stuff really soars and like Shaolin Soccer the movie does have a heart under all the stylish uber-violence.

I'm thinking of going back to see it again just to catch all the visual bits I must've missed.

[emersende]

I just saw this movie tonight, and since it's dollar Tuesday tomorrow at that theater, I might go back and watch it again. What fun! My brother (big kung fu fan) and I enjoyed the hell out of it. And, if I may say so, Stephen Chow is something of a looker, too.

[chiqui]

I saw this on DVD and now have a major crush on Stephen Chow. Those droopy eyes of his... yum.