I love Kung Fu-Hustle. Hell that youtube video looks just like a Road Runner cartoon... I also loved Shao Lin Soccer and chuckled a few times at Battlefield Baseball (which isn't a kung-fu film but rather a live action silly manga).
while stephen chows take on martial arts movie arent really purist type kungfu movies, you could tell that SC has a sincere love for the genre and the classic drama motif is apparent (underdog realize potential through self reflection). which is why i actually prefer these than, say, jet li's stuff despite him being a true proponent. i like jackie chan's stuff too when he wasnt all serious like.
The problem is, Chinese sense of humour and whether or not you 'get' it. If you get Chinese Humour then you'd appreciate Kung Fu Hustle. A really good benchmark to see if you have this 'sense of humour' is Last Action Hero. If you enjoy this, you have chinese lol. Last Action Hero did well in the east see?
its not so much Chinese, or should I say Cantonese humour as much as its chow sin chis personal brand of deadpan lame humour. think toriyamas dr slump. westerners wanna get into it with joints like shaolin soccer and Kung fu hustle but yall gotta go back to his classic stuff. my personal fave are the one where he's that bionic school teacher, that joint he did with andy lau and the one where he was James bond but with a cleaver. I dig his new ones not so much bcoz its better than his old stuff but dude actually made this shit respectable.
Would you guys call the "Scary Movie" film with the Wayans Brothers a horror movie? Case in point. now let's leave KFH out of the discussion with respect to martial arts flicks. I like Stephen Chows movies, but they are...comedies.
Actually, Stephen Chow Sing Chi has only donw Kung Fu stuff recently, even though he's trained all his life. My favourites of his is Fight back to School and God of Tricksters. But these are gonna be pretty obscure y'all.
aww dude...God of Cookery FTW if you saw that one. Me and my buddies have a drinking game where we drink every time something outrageous happens...suffice it to say we end up very fuggin drunk afterward, or even halfway through.
