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...Kung Fu Hustle,” an award-winning action-comedy import from Hong Kong, helped me get over that fear by teaching me a simple lesson. You’ve got to approach these movies the same way you approach a mission to rifle through some chick’s lingerie: by conjuring up your inner 9-year...
...don’t mean to give the impression that the movie is as crude as one that a prepubescent boy might make. Indeed, you don’t need to be an expert in cinematic technique to see that “Kung Fu Hustle,” although light-hearted and full of slapstick, is an admirable piece of moviemaking...
...played by writer/director/star Stephen Chow) accidentally sets off a war between the murderous Axe Gang and the residents of a quaint slum called Pig Sty. The latter are revealed to be not quite as helpless as they seem—an unusual number of them turn out to be Kung Fu masters—and wild fight scenes break out, with more than a little help from computer graphics and wire suspension. Sing, whose delivery is more Bill Murray than Jet Li, is caught in the middle—should he suck up to the bad guys, who he thinks...
...understand the bounds between reality and fantasy, comedy and drama, subtlety and nonsense. Everything seems like some strange and awe-inspiring dream. I might be missing some of the cultural or cinematic intricacies, but I still had the time of my life at “Kung Fu Hustle”:. Hell, I’d take it over a girl’s ratty old underthings any day of the week...
Chow, 42, seems to have been preparing for Kung Fu Hustle all his life. As a boy mesmerized by Bruce Lee films, he studied kung fu techniques. In his first TV job, as host of the daytime show Space Shuttle 430, he learned how to amuse kids with sly jokes and an impudent eloquence in body language. He became a film star as the little guy with false bravado who lucks into hero status. That's the formula here, but this time Chow doesn't take center stage until the last half an hour. Instead he uses his old comic...