Product Description

Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 12/26/2006 Run time: 135 minutes Rating: Pg

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5542 in DVD
• Brand: BR
• Released on: 2006-12-12
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Original language: Cantonese, English, French
• Subtitled in: English, French, Korean
• Dubbed in: English, French
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 95 minutes

From The New Yorker
The director Stephen Chow (he also wrote, produced, and stars) assembled this fantastic martial-arts film as cleverly as Tex Avery approached animation. Characters run down the road at superspeed, take flowerpots to the head without a whimper, and fly through the air deliriously. The plot, about a group of over-the-hill, tenement-living kung-fu masters with superpowers who fight a group of axe-wielding gangsters, is anarchic; the cast of Hong Kong actors is comic perfection, especially Yuen Qiu (who plays a hair-curlered, cigarette-smoking landlady). And there's a vibrant, back-lot-moviemaking feel to the film that never feels labored. The computer-enhanced stunt work is astonishing, but it's Chow's ability to find the humor in his flights of fancy that's truly distinctive. In Cantonese and Mandarin.-Bruce Diones
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker