Kung Fu Hustle

By way of celebrating actually being done for the summer, I went out to the Garneau theater for cheap movie night and saw "Kung Fu Hustle." I thuroughly enjoyed it. Definately a guy movie, it appeals to my love of watching people kick the crap out of each other, cartoonish supernatural powers and slapstick comedy. So really just watching people kick the crap out of each other with a few one liners thrown in. One liners don't lose anything when they are in subtitles. The corney plot (and subsequent twists) works really well with the comedic aspect of the film. There are really two other things that I'd like to add: 1. The soundtrack is awesome. 2. Having seen this, there is no excuse for a movie to have less than visually spectacular, amazingly realistic visual effects. It sets up some rather high expectations/ standards for The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy and Star Wars.