Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle is the kind of film that makes me angry that I waited almost 25 years to watch it. The film is like if someone reversed rotoscoped a Looney Tunes cartoon. Combining elements of wuxia, musicals, cartoons, and general insanity, Kung Fu Hustle is a joyous experience. To sum up the plot as succinctly as possible, in 1930s Shanghai, the Deadly Axe Gang declares de facto war against Pig Sty Alley, a slum which unexpectedly houses five kung fu masters. There are a number of fantastic fighters such as two assassins who kill with a magical guqin, a psychotic killer who allows himself to be locked up in prison because there is nobody in the outside world who can challenge him, a cantankerous Landlady and her henpecked husband, and Sing (played by director Stephen Chow), a small time wanna-be gangster who is destined to become one of the greatest masters of kung fu in history. There is some fantastic commentary to be found in how the proletariat tenement-dwellers of Pig Sty Alley are initially able to fight off the forces of organized crime. Of course, this is ruined by the film's curious insistence that only a select few can become kung fu masters. Either you are born to be a master or you are doomed to always be a victim. When did kung fu masters become jedi? Regardless, Kung Fu Hustle is a wildly enjoyable film.
8/10
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