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Avg. Critic Score: 78 out of 100 Generally favorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
16 OK for kids 16+
Read Common Sense Media review

Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    The Hollywood Reporter |

    With a delirious mix of the sublime and the silly, Hong Kong comedy king Stephen Chow Sing-chi has taken the kung fu comedy genre to new heights of chop-socky hilarity. Read full review

  • 91
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    All of Kung Fu Hustle is like that: You don't just watch it, you ride with it, laughing all the way. Read full review

  • 90
    Los Angeles Times | Carina Chocano

    Brilliantly choreographed and shot, Kung Fu Hustle is often grisly, visually spectacular and unabashedly silly, sometimes all at once. Read full review

  • 75
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Does the plot spin out of control? You bet. But dumb fun this smart is a gift. Read full review

  • 75
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    Hustle's approach to a simple good-vs.-evil plot is eccentrically exuberant. Read full review

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    This is the kind of movie where you laugh occasionally and have a silly grin most of the rest of the time. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Ruthe Stein

    Vivid and madcap but fails to connect on any emotional level. Read full review

  • 70
    The New York Times | Dana Stevens

    For all its punches, kicks, whacks and thumps, the movie does not have much impact, and for all its affectionate nostalgia, it produces a strange kind of amnesia. It knocks the sense right out of your head, and its own as well. Read full review

  • 50
    Variety | Derek Elley

    Devoid of genuine inspiration or involving character development. Read full review

  • 30
    Washington Post | Ann Hornaday

    For all its stylishness, verve and moments of visual poetry, the relentlessly punishing slapstick and overall cruel tone left me cold. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says OK for kids 16+ Rowdy martial arts comedy. Older teens and up.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this film includes extravagant violence, mostly cartoonish and stylized (martial arts wirework and digitally enhanced). The characters range from naïve romantics to hardcore hired killers, the tone is wildly comic and often charming, as the film pays homage to previous martial arts films. The good guys not only win, but also encourage the villain to rethink his evil ways.
  • Families can talk about the traditional story of a young hero who achieves his destiny, the popularity of kung fu movies, and the use of excessive violence to comic effects.
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: Not an issue
What to watch for
  • violence false5 Violence: Lots of cartoonish and stylized violence.
  • sex false3 Sex: Not an issue
  • language false0 Language: Not an issue
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Not an issue
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