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Kung Fu Hustle
It is 1940';s China, and gangs rule the city. The story revolves around a hapless wannabe gangster who aspires to become a member of the notorious 'Axe Gang'. A slum called Pig Sty Alley is the only area safe from the Axes because the people there are so poor. Soon, wannabe gangster Sing and his pal Bone attempt to extort money out of a barber and fail, drawing the real Axe Gang to Pig Sty. But the eccentric landlords turn out to be the greatest kung-fu masters in disguise and soon the two sides are enemies. What will Sing choose? Become a mobster or save the day?
9 June 1961, Hong Kong
11 February 1983, Shanghai, China
12 September 1948, Shaxi, Zhonghsan, Guangdong Province, China
1948, Hong Kong
27 December 1978, Shandong, China
1963, Chongqing, Sichuan, China
1943, Hong Kong
22 June 1962, Hong Kong
1 August 1975, Hong Kong
16 August 1976, Hong Kong
2 September 1950, Hong Kong, China
1 January 1957
December 27, 2007
Keeps the gags flying almost as rapidly as the fists.
September 26, 2005
A film where special effects erase physics and the constraints of the human body, there's absolutely no telling what will come next.
April 16, 2009
The ever-shifting genre of martial arts films takes on yet another variation with writer/director/actor Stephen Chow's CGI spectacle infused comic Kung Fu adventure.
May 12, 2006
Chow's movie may seem nutty on the surface, but its slyness, its dreamy unfolding of so many moods and genres, becomes intoxicating.
April 22, 2005
Retrieving the martial arts movie from the gentrified middlebrow tastefulness of movies like House of Flying Daggers is only one item on Kung Fu Hustle's agenda.
August 07, 2008
Gravity takes a backseat to levity.
November 01, 2007
So disarmingly eager to please that only a stone-faced kung fu purist could object.
November 19, 2013
Chow is a genius in generating extraordinary drama from the familiar.
April 29, 2009
A smart and very funny action comedy that will really knock your socks off.
April 22, 2005
But for all its stylishness, verve and moments of visual poetry, the relentlessly punishing slapstick and overall cruel tone left me cold.
May 20, 2005
Kung Fu Hustle snaps and crackles like nuclear popcorn on a scorching griddle.

