Kung Fu Hustle sets box office records in Asia!

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1. joeybrash 12/30/2004 @ 4:37am

   yea, i know the feeling.  i should also stop reading reviews of this movie, because now I know basically everything that’s going to happen in the movie.  but i’m still psyched.  it’s coming out here on January 8, i’ll send in a review, if not a lot have come in already.

2. Mack 12/30/2004 @ 12:13pm

   It’s still early so we haven’t heard from anyone yet. But if you’re out there and you saw Kung Fu Hustle this weekend in Asia then drop us a line and let us know what you thought.

3. Kurt 12/31/2004 @ 7:55am

   Love. Bliss. and Pure Joy.  That is the best way to describe this new movie...It blows Shaolin Soccer away (and I love that movie).

   I was one of those lucky people at the TIFF to see the first (and only public) screening.  (OK it’s difficult not to say nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah)...I’m stoked for the DVD release though...The movie has supreme re-watch value!

   My Capsule is <a>here</a>. 

   KuRt.

4. Kurt 12/31/2004 @ 8:00am

   Because my Link didn’t work...Here is a small capsule review from the Toronto film Festival Screening of Kung Fu Hustle:

   At the film festival there are usually so few comedies. When seeing thirty films with strong and complex subject matter it is a treat to just set back and be mindlessly entertained. This is one of the most enjoyable movie experiences i’ve had in a while. It is the Warner Brother’s Looney Toons meets the Shaw Brother’s kung-fu! Director/Star Stephen Chow has not had his films imported across the ocean to large audiences despite the fact that he constantly beats Jackie Chan and Jet Li at the chinese box office. His movies combine a chinese sense of humour (a strange blend of humilation and violence passed off as farce) with lots of mainstream eastern and western film references. His Shaolin Soccer is a near-masterpiece of madcap lunacy with state of the art special effects and a campy premise.
   Here Chow has upped the bar so high, I don’t think he will ever top it. To give away the story is to destroy the many, many hilarious surprises that pile on top of each other. Suffice it to say that when the big city axe-gang (who do cheoreographed dance-numbers with their axes in 1930’s gangster suits) moves in on pig-sty alley, the local residents aren’t going to take it.
   It is all very sumptuous and cinematic. It’s the Singing in the Rain of Kung-fu films.
   I cannot recommend this movie enough! When it plays in North America, and it will play, it is a great night at the movies.
   WARNING: Kung-Fu Hustle is cheesy as hell, but a little boys kung-fu wet dream.

   --unhtml’d link --http://kurtscomment.blogspot.com/2004/09/kung-fu-hustle.html

5. Mack 12/31/2004 @ 8:01am

   Kurt: We mean this with the kindest of affections…

   BASTARD!!! :::insert shaking of fist here:::

   We don’t blame you of course since it wasn’t your screening where the third reel tore. We blame the industry hob nobs [until of course we ever become one of the brood] and their screening.

   Warmest regards.

6. Kurt 01/04/2005 @ 4:20pm

   Mack:

   A buddy of mine had tickets to the world cup of hockey going on in Toronto on the same night of the KungFu Hustle screening...I don’t know if he is kicking himself, but I feel he made the poorer choice for going to the game (Even though Canada did win).

   KuRt.

7. Mack 01/06/2005 @ 4:00am

   Ah yes. Hockey. The lure of that mistress has led many a strong man down the wrong path.

8. Sallyjg 12/12/2005 @ 3:07am

   Hah...It’s awesome to see you guys talking about Chinese Movies here, especially talking about Kung Fu Hustle. That’s almost the most successful Chinese movie in 2005. In fact we Chinese people all like it a lot. However I really wonder how can you guys understand some Chinese jokes.

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