Very Minor Spoilers...

On Jun 28, 9:16 pm, Oliver tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

I saw Kung Hustle Hustle a few months ago, and compared to Kung Fu
Panda, it seems to have the opposite problem.

Panda focused alomst entirely on the the titual protagonist, making
hium the center of everything in the story. Hustle focused on the
conflict between the community (mainly on the Landlady and her
husband) and the Axe Gang, making the Stephen Chow character
tangential for most of the film. In fact, you don't even see the dude
for 20-30 minutes in Act 2, until that strange scene where he's order
to kill and can't. (But then, what scenes in KFH aren't considered
strange?)

Personally, I don't think the film did a very good job of making sense
of the Big Heroic Transition in Chow's chracter arc. It felt
embarrassingly tacked-on.

Panda spends so much time telegraphing the INEVITABLE HEROIC
TRANSITION that the opposite problem develops. Balance, Daniel-
San :-)

And Dude, KFPanda is supposed to honor those East Asian martial arts
tropes. It really doesn't matter who did them first, because Panda is
perfectly happy to reshuffle them into the wholly predictable, mostly
enjoyable stew we got.
Heck, the more brilliant Wall-E mixed and matched and distilled a lot
of familiar sci-fi stuff. Newness isn't really a problem with either
film, it's how they weild familiar stuff.

Terrence Briggs, noting that sometimes the Old Ways Are the Best Ways
Peace to you...