Kung Fu Hustle !!!!

[nunobone]

a'yo maling!
they're smart you're not, they're hot you're not, they are makin' money and you're not,

"the full of brains ville"

and this movie is totally great!, and its "COLUMBIA TRISTAR PICTURES"... why would big companies like Columbia would do a film like that(or partner with chow).. mmm... because they are no brainers too lol..

its chow man!! and "chow"!

u know y columbia partenered with them? because they know most people would pay for this movie. ugh. i paid. does that make me like it? i dont think so. it made me realize...people actually find this things funny. so much for hope on the masses.

exactly... like i said, they are makin money and not you.. do you think chow would make a movie if most people wont watch it lol.. and also like i said, why would they make a movie for a person's satisfaction? they'd rather hit million than a peso.. a "no brainer movie that makes money", now tell me where in this side of the world will you find one of those?? huh?

[pobre]

very nice movie...all thumbs up!

[ralf23]

It looks like KFH was well-received at Sundance.

MARTIAL ARTS SPOOF COMBINES BROAD COMEDY, STUNNING CHOREOGRAPHY

By Bruce Newman

Mercury News


PARK CITY, Utah - It was a couple of hours after a packed screening of his comedy ``Kung Fu Hustle'' had ended, and Stephen Chow still looked a little alarmed by the reaction.

Chow is one of Asia's biggest box office stars, as well as one of the film world's few legitimate comic geniuses, and yet he is unaccustomed to the stomping and whooping of an American ovation. ``I saw people standing up and applauding,'' Chow says, sounding as if he had been worried he was about to be engulfed by an angry mob. ``It was surprising.''

``Kung Fu Hustle'' is the Sundance Film Festival's first obvious breakout hit, although any movie that doesn't instantly cause you to burst into tears here at the mopey mecca of the dysfunctional family drama is likely to be considered a laugh riot. Chow wrote, produced, directed and stars in the picture, which not only spoofs the conventions of the martial arts movies made in his native Hong Kong, but also honors, and then surpasses, them.

Set in a teeming housing complex called Pig Sty Alley in pre-revolutionary China, it is the story of a small-time con artist named Sing (played by Chow), who wants to join the ruthless Axe Gang. His actions set off a kung-fu war between the gang and the residents of the Pig Sty, who turn out to be martial arts masters. The picture's action choreographer is Yuen Wo Ping, who designed the fight scenes for ``Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'' and ``The Matrix.'' And while the comedy is as broad as any Three Stooges movie, the martial arts scenes in ``Kung Fu Hustle'' are as entertaining as any in those hits.

As I can affirm from awkward experience, Chow has never heard of the Stooges, who turn out to be as conceptually difficult to explain to someone unfamiliar with American popular culture as deconstructing dadaism to a duck. Chow created a new comedy style known in China as mo lei tau or, literally, ``nonsense,'' which his movie delivers in such sly abundance that ``Hustle'' already has made more than $50 million, breaking box office records in Asia. Sony Pictures Classics will roll it out in the United States on April 1.

Comedy so rarely translates between cultures that Chow remains virtually unknown in America, though that may be about to change.

``What I'm trying to do in `Kung Fu Hustle' is reduce the dialogue and express my ideas with something else,'' he says, ``things like action or the picture or even the color. All these things can be used to replace dialogue.''

Even after establishing himself as a star, Chow had to wait until he was in his early 40s to make the movie he has dreamed of since he saw his first Bruce Lee movie as a boy. He fell in love with Lee's ``furious spirit'' and studied martial arts until his family could no longer afford it.

When he finally got the chance to make ``Hustle,'' he called upon his kung-fu heroes, including Yuen Qiu, a former Bond girl and star of the '70s who had retired from filmmaking, and Leung Siu Lung, who, along with Lee and Jackie Chan, was considered one of Hong Kong cinema's ``three dragons.'' Yuen plays the remorseless Landlady, and Leung is an elderly, but fearsome, fighter known as the Beast.

``The Hong Kong producers and directors all treat me as a comedian, and that's it,'' Chow says. ``I knew I needed to be careful because this was the first real kung-fu movie that I'm making. So I decide if I'm going to do it, I want it to be something really, really different from any other, because there are already too many kung-fu movies in the market.''

Chow is hoping for a different result here than he had with ``Shaolin Soccer,'' his previous attempt at cracking the comedy code in America. That film's distribution was badly botched by Miramax. Chow had been led to believe that he could expect better than to have his film dumped with almost no marketing.

``I had no idea what was going on because they didn't tell me,'' he says. ``So excuse me that I have nothing to say on this subject.''

He'll be heard from loud enough on April Fool's Day, the perfect release date for the inspired mo lei tau of ``Kung Fu Hustle.''

PS you now know what stephen chow films "are mo lei tau" (NONSENSE), so STOP your whining.

[maling]

ur talking about marketing strategy. thats besides the point which is comic value.

[cc(,``o]

great movie. wanna watch it again. very funny and cute love story. haha the star all of sudden become very attractive when he shaved and took off his shirt;P

[Wilson]

funny, funny, fuuunnnnny! watched it with my friends last month!!! cool kay effects.. mga camera angle.. and stuff.. haha.. atay atong bayot nga master oi!hehe

[tolstoi]

i'm afraid there is a somekinda CYNICAL person here...hmmmmm..

[freeheist]

personally, i dont really find the movie very asmusing.. n fact i was a bit disappointed.. wa ko lingaw..

[saber]

Wahhhhhh!! Very Funny, Very nice. Some slapstick, non-stop action, unexpected ending... I loved every minute of it.

[Plankton]

Very nice! Very funny! Mura gud ko nabuang.