God I love this movie...  Bill Murray once said (in a GQ article), "There should have been a day of mourning for American comedy the day that movie came out," because it was the "supreme achievement" of modern comedy."

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.

The couples saying the Asian stereotypical expectations of their child being a doctor got me.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

"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)

The tailor indeed is somewhat of a sarcasm to the stereotypes, firstly this kind of tailors usually are more seen(and still seen in some old stores) in shanghai, China, and their stereotype is ‘not manly enough”; then there’s the stereotype of gay guys were considered as “not manly” either. Yet he was one of the few to standup and fight for others, plus as a kongfu master, which is usually the stereotype of “manly”.

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

20:13  I idolized Steven chows, Bruce lees and Jackie Chans physique as a kid. That muscular lean martial arts body and I can honestly say I have turned myself into a 6’2 version of them at least at a glance. I cannot explain how much these actors molded my adolescence all thanks to my dad. I miss watching this movie in particular with him almost every month

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.

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.

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This is years after the fact but if you missed it: the pink tint to that liquid is characteristic of kerosene. Excellent attention to detail when they could've just used unadulterated water.

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

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.

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.

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

The rice dude’s English name is Coolie, which means a manual laborer. It is also a “sound translation” of his Chinese name 苦力強 (ku li qiang), which means “hard labor strongman”, and is sometimes used as a generic term for people in these types of work (not necessarily just carrying rice bags).