Rate Kung Fu Hustle

[Krug]

So what did you think of Stephen Chow's latest?

 

[Hopping Vampire]

Funny stuff.

 

[Truth Seeker]

Me gives a whopping 10! ...Very funny!!!

 

[Wombat]

Unexpectedly amusing. I give it a 7.

I say "unexpectedly" because I had never seen any of his films before

 

[WayneLigon]

Maybe we'll get it here, but after the debacle with Shaoilin Soccer, I have no real hope.

 

[dreaded_beast]

I give it a 9.

It would have been a perfect 10, but there were some "plot holes" I couldn't swallow.

 

[barsoomcore]

It's certainly getting a big release here in Vancouver. Specialized newspaper ads and posters are going up everywhere. April 22. I'm stoked.

Stephen Chow's idea of putting Yuen Wah in a suit and making him dance is every bit as brilliant as Wong Kar-Wai's idea of putting Maggie Cheung in a tight dress and making her walk up narrow stairways in slow motion. Some things seem so obvious in retrospect.

 

[Krug]

Opens nationwide in US this weekend doesn't it?

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

I'm skeptical. I'd heard great things about Shaolin Soccer (and about the trials and tribulations, too) so I watched it last weekend. Very disappointed - it felt like a 5-minute skit dragged out for an hour and a half. Not funny, only occasionally amusing. The wire work and effects were a distraction -- instead of an 'oh, that was cool' reaction, I found myself wishing for less.

I'd been planning on seeing this one, but now I'm not so sure.

 

[Desdichado]

This from the Roger Ebert review: "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. It must have taken Chow a superhuman effort to avoid singing a subtitled version of "Let Me Entertain You" -- or, no, I've got a better example -- of "Make 'em Laugh," the Donald O'Connor number in "Singin' in the Rain." In that one O'Connor crashed into boards and bricks, wrestled with a dummy, ran up one wall and through another one, and sang the whole time. Stephen Chow doesn't sing, but he's channeling the same spirit."

That could not possibly have been better written to entice me specifically into the theater. That Donald O'Connor routine is one of my favorite moments on film EVAR!