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August 10, 2005

Kung Fu Hustle - 6

Hilarious. I was going to try to compare it to combinations of other films (ex. Forest Gump meets Wiley Coyote, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon meets My Big Fat Greek Wedding, or The Godfather meets Tommy Boy, Kill Bill meets The Three Stooges, none of these really fit), and it just got too complicated. Basically Stephen Chow made a film in which he gets to be the super powerful hero who saves the world. Why? Because he is telling the story, and if you don't like it, too bad. He has a highly imaginative sense of humor which will make this film hilarious. Basically, the main character, Sing (played by Chow), wants to be a bad guy cause the bad guys always end up with the money and the women, doing good gets you nowhere. As luck would have it, he ends up accidentally doing the right thing, because he is, after all, the one in a million Kung Fu genius with the long lost Buddhist palm technique. It is a very entertaining film to watch, with lots of laughs.

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