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This one sounds good<em> and</em> funny! From Stephen Chow of Shaolin Soccer fame.. US: NYC/LA 4/8 - Wide April 18

from Rolling Stone <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/_/id/6821997?pageid=rs.Home&pageregion=double1&rnd=1113535592421&has-player=true&version=6.0.12.1040">review</a>:

<em>He stands tall, looking ready to kick your ass. But Hong Kong actor-director-writer-producer Stephen Chow (Shaolin Soccer) is also just as likely to dance a jig and make funny faces. He’s a one-man comedy parade. In the seriously cuckoo Kung Fu Hustle, Chow knocks himself out to please and also to sneak in a little social satire. Set in China in the 1940s, the movie takes deft notice of how the poor are exploited in Pig Sty Alley. Chow stars as Sing, a wanna-be gangster who’s willing to step on the underdog to impress the notorious Axe gang, whose members hack up a rival before doing a musical number in top hats and tails. You get the picture. And if you don’t, join the hustle. Nothing is safe from Chow, who spoofs the CGI tricks of The Matrix, turns his characters into live-action cartoons and then, miraculously, makes it all ring true. Does the plot spin out of control? You bet. But dumb fun this smart is a gift.</em>

View trailer <a href="http://click.rollingstone.com/?ismedia=true&clipid=124520&pageid=rs.ReviewsMovieDisplay&pageregion=triple1"> Here</a>

Another <a href="http://www.star-ecentral.com/news/story.asp?file=/2005/4/15/movies/10662082&sec=movies">review</a>:

<strong>Kung Fu Hustle takes Hollywood by surprise</strong>

<em>Hong Kong movie star Stephen Chow’s action comedy Kung Fu Hustle kicked up a storm when it opened in the United States last weekend, but left delighted film critics battling to describe it. 

US critics raved about the film, set in a 1940s Chinese city that appears to be Shanghai or Hong Kong, but were at a loss as how to define its genre or even describe the high-kicking action epic. “A film in which Jackie Chan and Buster Keaton meet Quentin Tarantino and Bugs Bunny,” wrote respected American critic Roger Ebert.

Stephen Chow’s Kung Fu Hustle has delighted US film critics.
“It’s been a long time – you might have to go back to the Bruce Lee era – since a martial-arts film busted through the limits of physical freedom as wildly, and promiscuously, as Kung Fu Hustle,” raved Entertainment Weely.</em>

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