Everything GREAT About Kung Fu Hustle!

You asked for it, you got it! Also this is one of my favorite movies of all time, so no skin off my back. I don't think it's super well known, which is wrong, and if you want to go in blind, go watch it now! Pretty sure it's on Netflix. If you're ready to go, here's everything right with Kung Fu Hustle!

CinemaWins Socials:

[poweroffriendship.]

Kung Fu Hustle is such a wild movie. The part where the protagonist ran away from his landlady in Wile E. Coyote and Roadrunner style is hands down the best part of the movie.

[ricg]

One part of the film that most unfamiliar with the genre don't understand; Chow getting hit by knives and bitten by snakes isn't just physical humour. It is meant to be a acupuncture treatment that opens his meridian points and allows him to access his latent kung fu genius power in the roadrunner scene and later in the film.

[The-Dom]

This is one of the greatest movies ever made. The story telling, the character development, the subtle continuity details, the blend of satire and meaning....A timeless masterpiece.

[arefillpad]

The musical scores in this movie are underrated. They're absolutely beautiful and adds so much nostalgia.

[crumblemuffin]

Ok but the harp players fight was an absolute stroke of genius.

[WrathofDash]

The part where the dying hero says, "Then what are you preparing to do?" in English and they respond in Chinese with, "Why aren't you speaking Chinese?!" is probably my favorite part of the original.

[rapisor]

Still one of the best endings that caught me off guard. Beast acknowledging defeat, and Sing offering to teach him. Best display of true power, mercy, and redemption in one simple scene.

[billychan]

This is a really late addition to the Wins, but the Landlady and Landlord delivers a bell to the Axe Gang. In Cantonese, the word "clock" and "bell" are the homophones with "end". And to send someone off is literally translated as "giving end". So them using the bell as their Ultimate move is kinda a double entendre.

Stephen Chow crafted a love letter to Kung Fu cinema by making classic references to Wushu film with the nicknaming and phrases found in classic cinema.

[rmcowdery]

I can't remember laughing at any movie harder than i laughed at the knife throwing scene. Love this movie.

[Tores]

Man this movie has gotta be one of THE BEST slapstick action/comedies in history. Just the obsurdity of the violence alone is classic

[faitheffect]

Love how this movie constantly escalated greater villain then greater hero until you get to a god hand from the sky. So great!

[theouterlimits]

Kung-fu hustle is a Masterpiece. How the effects still holds up to this day is insane. Action, comedy, and story telling blended together to create such a phenomenal movie.

[arandomweirdanimator]

As a Cantonese speaker I can say that the subtitles are usually wrong most of the time, they downgrade a lot of the jokes in the movie cause you can’t really translate the lines properly, you can’t really tell these jokes in a different language cause if you do it wouldn’t make any sense and the result is that I have to translate the whole movie to friends when we watch it.

[TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

All of the fight sequences in this movie are hilarious and extremely entertaining it’s just one of those classics

[duongtieuta]

In 14:27 they stated their names as Yang Guo and Xiao Long Nu as the protagonist couple in Yin Yong's famous Return of the Condor's hero novel. This is a parody older version of the characters but still a big nod from Chow to the original piece. I am a big fan of the wuxia novels and the series, seeing them getting mentioned all across the movie is such a great sensation.

[holkn]

There are many references to popular Chinese Wuxia novels by Jin Rong(Asian equivalent to JJR tokien’s lord of the rings ) that western audience are not familiar to. For example, dragon’s daughter is actually one of the main characters in The Return of the Condor Heroes, and her husband Yang Guo is the main protagonist. The funny part is in the novel, The Dragon Maiden is supposed to beautiful and elegant while Yang Guo is supposed to be tall, brooding and handsome, complete opposite of their portrayal in the movie.The scene where Chow steps on a condor before he unleashes his Buddha palm is actually a reference to the mythical giant condor from the Condor Series too

[MoonWielder]

Two interesting facts about this movie behind the scenes: Chow originally wanted the two assassins to fight with a shark in the movie, and Bruce Leung was Stephen’s childhood martial arts hero.

[Edward-wedl]

14:32 They are actually calling themselves '楊過' & '小龍女' (which basically means dragon's daughter). They are a famous couple from the Hong Kong wuxia novels series 'The Return of the Condor Heroes'. (honestly recommend anyone to read any Jin Yong's novels, they are exciting, touching, heart breaking, funny and super entertaining) That series is a classic in Chinese literature that has been made into tv shows and movies countless times. What's also funny is that in the novel, they are described to be super hot, 楊過 is known to make a lot of girls fall for him because of how handsome he is, which I guess sort of happens here?

[shroom]

this is honestly THE MOST movie i have ever seen. and not even in a meme way. i have ZERO clue as to why this never blew up online. it is, without a single speck of doubt, my favorite movie. and I KNOW that nothing i will watch will ever usurp it. #1 KFH enjoyer right here.

[xuanzexu]

"No more soccer" means his previous movie "Shaolin Soccer" (2001) is history, now let's focus on his new movie which is "Kung Fu Hustle" (2004)