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	Kung Fu Hustle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kung Fu Hustle (Chinese: 功夫; pinyin: Gōngfu) is a martial arts film first released in Hong Kong in December 2004.
		Kung Fu Hustle is a humorous parody and mockery of the wuxia genre, played and directed by Stephen Chow.
		It is in stark contrast to recent Kung Fu movies that have made an impact in the West, such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kung_Fu_Hustle (3752 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Kung Fu Hustle [2005]: DVD: Stephen Chow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Kung Fu Hustle takes the gleeful mayhem of Hong Kong action movies, the deadpan physical humor of silent comedies, and the sheer elasticity of Wile E. Coyote cartoons and fuses them into a spectacle that is simple in its joys and mind-boggling in its orchestration.
		Kung Fu Hustle is a comic parody of the wuxia (historical martial arts heros) genre of Chinese martial arts films, containing most of the aspects of the wuxia genre but with comic exaggerations.
		Kung Fu Hustle's comic book style visual effects are its most striking feature, it sits in blunt opposition to the recent trend of Kung Fu movies to hit the big screen in the west, such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The House of Flying Daggers and Hero.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Kung-Fu-Hustle-Stephen-Chow/dp/B000AAVDGA (1437 words)

	Kung Fu Hustle
		Kung Fu Hustle integrates the jokes into the story, so that even when they don’t work (which is rarely), they’re still of a piece with the rest of the film; they don’t distract you.
		Kung Fu Hustle’s writer/director/star, Stephen Chow, has acted in over 50 movies and had a hand in writing and directing seven.
		Kung Fu Hustle has been given much more respectful treatment by Sony Pictures Classics, which seems to be willing to promote it sufficiently for it to reach the audience it deserves.
	www.pajiba.com /kung-fu-hustle.htm (753 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Kung Fu Hustle (xhtml)
		Sometimes it bubbles up to the top, as in Stephen Chow's "Kung Fu Hustle." The joke is based not so much on humor as on delight: The characters have overcome the laws of gravity and physics.
		"Kung Fu Hustle" is Chow's seventh film as a director and 61st job as an actor, counting TV.
		Now comes "Kung Fu Hustle." This is the kind of movie where you laugh occasionally and have a silly grin most of the rest of the time.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050422/REVIEWS/50411001/1023 (790 words)

	Kung Fu Hustle
		Kung Fu Hustle will not only please martial-arts fans, it's witty and energetic enough to engage those who usually ignore such choreographed Asian dust-ups.
		Chow (Shaolin Soccer) never strays far from comedy, but he also delivers head-knocking kung fu action, perpetrated by some of the most devilish villains ever devised, including assassins who fire magic weapons from a great stringed instrument and a man known only as "the beast," who's nearly invulnerable to attack.
		For true kung fu aficionados, Kung Fu Hustle features some high-flying fight scenes, including a sequence that has three "masters" mopping the floor with the ax gang, and the battle between two unlikely fighters and the beast, which involves a loud voice and a giant bell.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/movies/articles/0422kungfu22.html (556 words)

	"Kung Fu Hustle" (2005) / a review and/or comments from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
		Kung Fu is purely pagan on one level, but it is also deeply spiritual, a fact that every single reviewer seems to have missed.
		Because the character is a wannabe Kung Fu fighter who tries to act tough and cool, but gets slapped around by the bad guys and knocked out by the landlady.
		It is regrettable that “Kung Fu Hustle” has so many objectionable elements, because it is otherwise one of the best examples of a spiritual journey ever depicted in popular film and reaffirms what all believers know: prayer is the ultimate palm move.
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/2005/kungfuhustle2005.html (2957 words)

	Kung Fu Hustle (2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The course is set for a fierce fight between kung fu masters, just as Sing is forced to choose sides and accept his fate as a kung fu dynamo.
		The ideas of kung fu masters hidden in a poor community, a supreme master locking himself away until a worthy adversary appears, and exaggerated abilities like the chi-powered Buddha's Palm are all manifestations of wuxia storytelling.
		No amount of their fighting is going to satisfy kung fu purists of course, but this is the most elaborate martial arts action yet seen in a Stephen Chow movie.
	www.kungfucinema.com /reviews/kungfuhustle_082205.htm (2082 words)

	Movie Review - Kung Fu Hustle - eFilmCritic
		Kung Fu Hustle’s use of martial arts feels similarly opportunist; while it parodies many of the contextual touches that crop up in kung fu films, Hustle seems to take itself oddly seriously at other times.
		Aside from the sheer grandiloquence of the effects-driven kung fu sequences, there is little to indicate that the film’s martial arts are intended to be taken with anything other than deadly seriousness, and visual bombast is a pretty flimsy indicator.
		Kung Fu Hustle isn’t a perfect spoof, and it sometimes feels too rushed for its own good, but Chow’s directorial flair and comedic timing keep things rolling along smoothly enough for most of the way.
	www.efilmcritic.com /review.php?movie=10619&reviewer=385 (893 words)

	Kung Fu Hustle
		Kung Fu Hustle isn't much more than a series of embellishments, but when you're talking about a movie that puts this much cartoon crunch into its violence, it may not matter.
		Kung Fu Hustle is essentially one long computer-enhanced Looney Tunes punch-up - - and probably the most fun you'll have at the movies all year.
		A delirious-verging-on-surreal send-up of Kung Fu attitudes and traditions mutated with a Tex Avery cartoon.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/kung_fu_hustle (1025 words)

	Kung Fu Hustle Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Kung Fu Hustle is its own film; the only shared trait with Shaolin Soccer is that they are both hysterically funny movies.
		Unlike Shaolin Soccer, where his character was firmly the center of the film, Chow’s Kung Fu Hustle character is sidelined for long sections of the film, only taking center stage for the finale.
		Kung Fu Hustle is a star vehicle for Chow, not so much in the sense of his performance, but for his comic vision.
	www.filmbuffonline.com /Reviews/KungFuHustle.htm (478 words)

	Kung Fu Hustle (2005): Reviews
		Kung Fu Hustle is something you rarely encounter in theaters: a genuinely original comedy.
		Brilliantly choreographed and shot, Kung Fu Hustle is often grisly, visually spectacular and unabashedly silly, sometimes all at once.
		The overly broad martial-arts comedy Kung Fu Hustle was obviously made with skill and affection for its many cinematic sources, yet I found the tone, timing and emotional involvement off by just enough to irritate rather than enchant.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/kungfuhustle (1363 words)

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	Kung Fu Hustle :: thetyee.ca
		This unremarkable looking pair is actually truly remarkable: two kung fu masters, who have hung up their spurs and retired to Pig Sty Alley to live as slumlords.
		The gang that got banged, of course, wants revenge and things begin to escalate out of control, which is when the real kung fu masters reenter the battleground and fight for their mangy piece of turf.
		He is the world champion of killing machines, someone so dedicated to Kung Fu that he has literally lost his mind.
	thetyee.ca /Entertainment/2005/04/29/KungFuHustle (1269 words)

	Kung Fu Hustle (2004): Stephen Chow, Lam Tze Chung, Yuen Wah, Yuen Qiu - PopMatters Film Review
		On one level, this transformation seems regular enough: a young man, Sing (Chow), is called on to defend a community, and in so doing, he becomes the hero he was destined to be, the butterfly born of the proverbial caterpillar.
		They hope to impress the head of the Axe Gang, but the townspeople prove remarkably resilient, to the point that they are harboring, even unbeknownst to themselves, a crew of hardcore kung fu masters -- each with his or her own style, part classic and part antic.
		Nodding to the Shaw Brothers, Bruce Lee, and other artists who have come before, Kung Fu Hustle is something of a grab bag of fighting styles and narrative threads (including Sing's longstanding affection for a mute girl he knew as a child, now grown up and selling candies on the street, Fong [Eva Huang Sheng-yi]).
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/k/kung-fu-hustle.shtml (1089 words)

	Living Corpse » Reviews » Kung Fu Hustle (2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Retired kung fu masters, in fact: some of the best in the world, and when Sing summons backup from the Axe Gang, he unwittingly starts a war.
		The top three kung fu masters in the world are forced out of hiding: the Fated Lovers, aka Landlord and Landlady, are pitted against the number one fighter, Beast, released from a mental asylum by Sing.
		“Kung Fu Hustle” isn't quite as slapstick as its predecessor, though the toilet humour is still mostly in place.
	livingcorpse.com /reviews/kungfuhustle.shtml (522 words)

	Kung Fu Hustle
		After several encounters with thugs and a fearsome adversary known as the Beast, Sing overcomes his inadequacy and realizes he is the greatest kung fu master of them all, destined to protect the sacred street.
		In parts, Kung Fu Hustle is slapstick, comedy drama, clever parodies and at its zaniest, it's a freaking cartoon, complete with Roadrunner zip-offs.
		The gags in Hustle made a hella lot of sense to me and to the rest of the audience, who were too busy cacking their pants to even think about anything else.
	www.heroic-cinema.com /review.php?ID=kungfuhs (603 words)

	[KFCC] Kung Fu Hustle Review
		KUNG FU HUSTLE ultimately becomes an endearing and terrific homage to martial art films rather than a Chow-brand action comedy.
		A KUNG FU HUSTLE sequel is already in the works.
		KUNG FU HUSTLE is essential viewing and one of the best comedy/martial art film you’ll ever see!
	www.kfccinema.com /reviews/kungfu/kungfuhustle/kungfuhustle.html (924 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Kung Fu Hustle (2005)
		A showdown between this nasty bunch and heroic kung fu masters would seem to present enough plot for an entire film.
		Kung Fu Hustle veers in a much different comedic direction and provides some cheap laughs at the expense of its characters.
		The Axe Gang fighters are actually pretty weak once they battle the true kung fu masters, who are not the typically super-athletic types.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=7696 (1368 words)

	kung fu hustle
		Equal parts Bruce Lee and Chuck Jones, Kung Fu Hustle is one of the great nonsense movies -- a smash-and-grab action farce madly in love with old Hollywood and old martial-arts flicks.
		Chow seems to have been given a much larger piggy bank this time; Kung Fu Hustle is a triumph of set design, taking us from the flea-bitten slum of Pig Sty Alley to the swanky atmosphere of what looks like 1930s Hong Kong.
		Blessed with the most fluid camerawork since Sam Raimi in his prime, and punctuated with stunning action sequences to match, Kung Fu Hustle is proof positive that whatever the future of movies may be, it certainly doesn't have to be boring.
	www.angelfire.com /movies/oc/kungfuhustle.html (797 words)

	Alt Text \| Media Consumption \| Kung Fu Hustle
		Kung Fu Hustle takes the prize for best Kung Fu movie of 2005.
		Without the story of the heroes and anti-heroes, the movie seems rather pointless and trite, not at all like some of the great Kung Fu movies of the past such as Enter the Dragon, Drunken Master, and Once Upon a Time in China.
		By the end of my second viewing of Kung Fu Hustle, however, I was impressed with the story and the fight scenes.
	www.alttext.com /archives/media/2006/01/kung_fu_hustle.html (232 words)

	OFFOFFOFF film review KUNG-FU HUSTLE Hong Kong movie by Stephen Chow with Chan Kwok Kuen, Chow Stephen, Feng Xiaogang, ...
		Whatever the case, it doesn't really matter in "Kung-Fu Hustle." If you've seen a love story, a gangster story, a kung-fu action film, and some Looney Tunes cartoons you are more than set for Stephen Chow's new expression for the kung-fu film.
		A gang of axe-wielding thugs that are just as handy with a hatchet as they are with machine-guns, they are an army in the streets and dancers in the nightclubs.
		In "Kung-Fu Hustle," everything from the characters to the martial arts themselves are wrapped in a cartoon world a lot like that of the Looney Tunes.
	www.offoffoff.com /film/2005/kungfuhustle.php (745 words)

	Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
		Kung Fu Hustle may not be best Hong Kong film of the year, but its commercial instincts and eclectic mixture of elements makes it an absolute winner.
		The comedy in Kung Fu Hustle seems obligatory when compared to the action, which is a strange thing to say about a Stephen Chow movie.
		If anything, the stars of Kung Fu Hustle are the residents of Pigsty Alley, and not the wannabe gangster caught in the middle of their conflict with the Axe Gang.
	www.lovehkfilm.com /reviews_2/kung_fu_hustle.htm (1449 words)

	Metromix. Movie Review: 'Kung Fu Hustle'
		Embracing the video game structure, slapstick "Kung Fu Hustle" sets its heroes against ascending levels of absurdity and wonder as the Pig Sty Alley enclave fights off escalating attacks from the ruthless Axe Gang, brought on by Sing's troublemaking.
		The central joy of "Hustle" lies in the way Chow reveals the multiple kung fu masters who have chosen to retire in Pig Sty Alley.
		Defying both convention and expectations, Chow's initial round of kung fu wizards aren't young, or even vaguely in shape.
	metromix.chicagotribune.com /movies/mmx-050421-movies-review-rke-hustle,0,3570342.story?coll=mmx-movies_leftutility (710 words)

	Shaolin Soccer - MonkeyPeaches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Set in the 1940's China, small time thief, aspires to be one of the sophisticated and ruthless Axe Gang whose underworld activities oversahdow the city...
		I am glad people from Sony Pictures Classics decided to drop that "Everybody was kung fu fighting" song, which is not part of movie.
		Kung Fu is also doing very well in Singapore and Malaysia.
	www.monkeypeaches.com /kungfu.html (1649 words)

	Do the 'Kung Fu Hustle' - RopeofSilicon.com
		Hard to imagine a movie named Kung Fu Hustle could actually interest me, but this one may be f'ed up just enough for me to have to go preview it.
		Just in from Sony Classics is a large look at the Kung Fu Hustle poster, plus they have completely revamped the official site with a bunch of goodies.
		Kung Fu Hustle follows the life of a hapless wanna be gangster, Sing, who must overcome his inability to wield a knife and demonstrate his mettle in order to become a member of the notorious Axe Gang.
	www.ropeofsilicon.com /news.php?id=1846 (265 words)

	kung fu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Kung Fu Cinema is an independent online publication that provides martial arts film reviews with additional information on available DVD editions and...
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	richardbrunton:Reviews: Kung Fu Hustle
		That's what Kung Fu Hustle appears to do, it grabs from different styles, genres and movies and pulls them together in a rich weave of a movie, something you're not really used to.
		After all, I would really describe this as a comedy, but it also brings you some amazing Kung Fu mixed with Hollywood blockbuster effects, a smidgen of a love story, and a tiny bit of thriller.
		I have to say that my favourite is the camp Kung Fu Master, the way he slipped from complete mastery of Kung Fu and strength of body and mind to his camp character running around the set was superbly entertaining.
	weblog.brunton.org.uk /reviews/archives/movies_5_stars/kung_fu_hustle.html (944 words)

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