"tastelessly crude and violent" a descriptive quote from arsaib4's review, other words or phrases also jumped out from his comments "puerile" is a good one to describe the comedy factor. The film was just so disappointing with needless scenes of ott violence, repetitive fights, yes there are spoofs of a number of films but what started as a spoof of the Matrix films seemed to end up as Stephen Chow saying "Yes look at me for I am the One".

Sorry to say but Stephen Chow is not the One, he's no Jackie Chan and he's most certainly no Bruce Lee or even Jet Li. I do think he takes on too much and because of this the film is very patchy and doesn't seem to know which direction it wants to go.

Childish humour and scenes of crude violence just don't work together; the scene with the two children doused in petrol was for me, a step too far in the wrong direction.

I enjoyed Shaolin Soccer, unfortunately I can't say the same for Kung Fu Hustle.

Cheers Trev.