Basically, my reaction to the movie is very akin to Shaenon’s (we think Garrity) will-be-famous-someday-if-I-have-anything-to-say-about-it observation:
“Kung-Fu Hustle,” like “Sin City,” is one of those movies that made me wonder why other movies are always forcing me to look at boring things, when they could be showing me machine-gun-toting hooker armies or middle-aged landladies using the Lion’s Roar Attack against the World’s Greatest Killer.
In this case, the cyber-prep* streets of San Fransokyo. Visually gorgeous and well done. I liked it. I even shed a tear or two at one point. And the intro short movie was similarly cute.
Moe Lane
*Term cheerfully stolen from Steve Jackson Games.