Starring: Stephen Chow and Wah Yuen
Director: Stephen Chow
Rated: M15+
KUNG Fu Hustle is the kind of entertainment that does not need much review.
Hong Kong actor-director Stephen Chow made Shaolin Soccer, a soccer comedy in 2001 which tickled the funny bones of audiences around the world with its madcap group of would-be soccer players who are trained in meditative ways to become champions.
Now his avowed intention is to become a martial arts screen hero before he is too old. And what a result.
Never mind the story about gangsters and oppression of the poor in 1934 and the need for a hero. It is the action, stunt work and effects that are everything. Paying homage to everything from Bruce Lee to Jackie Chan, from Crouching Tiger to everything else (or borrowing from them), he has concocted a comedy action show which is often very funny, very slapstick – and it won the Hong Kong awards for 2004.
