this movie have everything comedy and drama and pathos and incredible action and slapstick and great acting and a great story and wildly inventive absurdity and actual thematic thread ( a long go element in u film ) and moment of sheer poetry and and genuine heart . in true hk style and it have a bit of everything . not only be it a much and much well martial art film than either the more respected hero or house of fly dagger and it be a much good film and period . in fact and kung fu hustle be one of the best movie of any kind i have see this year . it great that columbia picture or sony classic give this movie a u release with only minor cut ( which and now that i have see the uncut hk version and should have be leave in ) . but it be obvious that they have no idea how to market it and though they spend a lot of money try . they push it only for it comedic element and position it in the medium a a wacky spoof of kung fu movie and like blaze saddle be for western which it be not . but i do not really blame columbia for kung fu hustle weak stateside box office i blame those moron at miramax . yeah and you hear me you two . i think that this great movie would have find a much big audience if miramax and the u distributor of chow previous film and shaolin soccer and hadn not so utterly botch that film u release and show it heavily cut in only a couple of theatre before dump it unceremoniously onto video . while not all american be familiar with the convention of the hk kung fu flick of the seventy ( which admittedly do help when view kung fu hustle ) everyone in the u know soccer . i think soccer could have be a u smash along the line of crouch tiger and if handle properly . in a perfect world and the more easily digestible shaolin soccer would have be chow huge u hit and pave the way in the american public imagination for this far superior follow up . if chow have become the u star he should have a couple of year ago and american would have line up for hustle even if they have never see a kung fu movie in their life . but it be not to be . people do not know who chow be and couldn not tell what kind of film be be market while they go into the theatre expect to see a dumbass gross out parody and leave disappointed . it just not right that more folk in the u haven not see this great film . let hope for a second life in the usa from good dvd sale . p and by the way and i do not think kung fu hustle be really do parody of either the matrix or reservoir dog a be way too often mention in review . both of those flick borrow heavily from previous hong kong movie so i think it much more likely that chow be reference the original hong kong movie and with which he and other asian would be most familiar and not the american imitator .