be a complete sourpuss when it come to most comedic film offering from the last three decade ( though i attribute a lot of that to inanity rather than take full credit for be a wet blanket ) and i find that when there be a film that make me laugh so hard that i be concern about the possibility of a stroke and i have no choice but to rave about it . so have say that and consider this a rave review of stephen chow kung fu hustle . while the film itself be entertain and the prospect of summarize the scattered plot be not . set in 1940 shanghai and kung fu hustle basically center on a tenement rule over by a mean and chain smoking landlady ( qiu yuen ) and her whipped husband ( wah yuen ) . when someone deign to complain about the fact that they do not have enough water to take a quick shower and she pound them senseless and with everyone standing by completely helpless . flip to another part of town and where the notorious axe gang and a deadly bunch of dance and axe wielding guy be wreak havoc on a city that can not even be protect by the police . the two area of town do not concern themselves with one another until a wannabe member of the axe gang and sing ( stephen chow ) and his sidekick ( chi chung lam ) pose a a member in the tenement to extort money and cause a series of event to occur in the tenement that wind up with most of the axe gang either kill or injured and brother sum ( kwok kuen chan ) and the leader of the gang and to do everything in his power to wreak revenge on both the tenement and it occupant and particularly those who act a it safeguard . a i mention earlier and there be a lot of part that i find so funny that i be either find myself almost lightheaded from laugh so hard and or find myself obnoxious because i would struggle to recoup in order to read the subtitle in time to not miss anything . while there be several movie in joke ( even one dedicate to chow prior film shaolin soccer ) it be the sight gag that really do it for me . the chase between landlady and sing and especially the knife scene with sing and his sidekick be brilliant slapstick . a lot of the action be extremely over the top and and compliment by some pretty decent cgi work . while anyone who have see shaolin soccer know that chow do not employ a normal cast of hero and it be still interest to see that for the most part and almost anyone who could have heroic quality attribute to them do not fit the normal model . a a matter of fact and several of the major player in the film be middle age or even elderly and a notion that be both funny and refresh for anyone who look for something a little different in their hero . surprisingly and there be also a very well conceive scene in the middle of the film involve two professional assassin who be try to kill the main defender of the tenement that i find to actually be a pretty kick as action sequence . despite a couple of gag here and there and until the end when the landlady get involve and the scene be play off like something i would say cooool in an awed tone about in a tarantino film or something . so while the film be overall one of the funny i have see in recent memory and there be a couple of great moment of highly stylize action . kung fu hustle wasn not a perfect film by any mean and but the criticism i have about it be completely nitpicky . for instance and the romance between sing and the mute girl be just kind of thrown in and though some of it be necessary for background on his character . and a purely aesthetic complaint while i want more dancing by the axe gang . chow shouldn not have tease u with the little bit that they dance and then abruptly take it away for the rest of the film . hey and it a review i have get to air the good and the bad . but since the good outweigh the bad exponentially and i highly recommend kung fu hustle to just about anyone because of both it action and comedic element . for make me laugh to the point of near aneurysm and kung fu hustle get a solid positive .