Kung Fu Hustle

After enjoying Shaolin Soccer, the last film written, directed and starring Stephen Chow, we were looking forward to Kung Fu Hustle and glad to see it on On Demand early access. Unfortunately our expectations weren’t really met. Possibly this was due to more substantial dependence on the dialog but poor translation into English subtitles rather than the film itself but I felt it was disjointed, awkward, and pushed Chow’s role, which based only on plot should have been fairly minor, to prominence because he played the part. Had a lot of neat elements which could have been melded together better, though the night battle with the musician/assassins was really cool.

not recommended