Kung Fury

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This was absurd. As another reviewer put it, absurd in a "good way." No. Absurd is absurd. Look, I got it. The humor wasn't lost on me. But there's clever, thought-out, irreverent humor, and then there's this. A few gags were credible. I did laugh. So I have to give it a few stars, at least. It's the kind of stuff you talk about with your college friends nerding over 80s white-boy entertainment (the Japanese-influenced elements are still white-boy) but never have any way of pulling off. There's a reason for that. Somehow, these guys just managed to find the cash. About a third of it was well-executed. The other parts were it-was-funny-at-the-time or guess-you-had-to-be-there kind of humor. And maybe that's why there are so many ten-star reviews. I've noticed quite a number of them say, "I supported this on Kickstarter." Yeah, of course you think it's great. Don't read those reviews. They're experiencing cognitive dissonance. The only reason I lasted the full half-hour was because it was a half-hour, still about 20 minutes too long. Some of the best gags could have been done in a ten minute short, and good fun would have been had by all. Since it was about a third good, I give it a third of the credit. Three-point-three-three stars. But since I have to round it off, just three.

This is basically just some guy that saw danger 5 and decided to make a North American version of it and somebody gave him a bunch of money to do it. it's not groundbreaking like I have read in other reviews, it's a ripoff. If you want original watch danger 5 and if you want random humour watch the mighty boosh or even too many cooks. I actually shut it off because I couldn't handle how many original things this had ripped off. Although I can see why people think it's great and I'm guessing it's because they haven't seen the shows it is stolen from. So in short, don't waste your time and don't support someone that just steals other people's ideas, try watching danger 5 and see where the actual ideas come from

A street cop (David Sandberg) is hit by lightning and bitten by a cobra, transforming him into Kung Fury, a powerful martial arts master dedicated to fighting evil. When Adolf Hitler (Jorma Taccone)—the Kung Führer—travels to the present to kill Kung Fury, our hero leaps into action—by travelling back in time to 1940s Nazi Germany to battle the dastardly dictator. We've already had faux 70s grind-house and retro 80s horror; now we have faux straight-to-video action in the form of Kung Fury, an outrageously daft short that offers up such silliness as a killer arcade machine, a sexy, wolf-riding Viking warrior woman armed with a mini-gun, dinosaurs with laser eyes, a cop with the head of a triceratops, and a hacker who uses his computer skills to heal bullet wounds. The film features a heavy dose of tasteless 80s graphics, a fitting synthesizer soundtrack and even goes so far as to throw in video tracking problems for that authentic VHS vibe; sadly, it also includes an awful lot of unconvincing CGI which seriously detracts from its credibility as a product of the 80s. Had the makers gone 'old-school' and used some shonky stop-motion for the robots and dinosaurs and a few bad matte paintings for the backdrops, it would have been a whole lot more convincing—and, as far as I'm concerned, a lot more entertaining.

"In the 1940s, Hitler was a kung-fu champion. He was so good at kung-fu, that he decided to change his name to 'Kung Führer'." Kung Fury is a 30 minute short directed by David Sandberg who financed the film through a kickstarter campaign raising over 600,000 dollars. It is a homage to 80's bizarre action movies with its colorful neon lights, cheesy one-liners, and over the top characters. David Sandberg plays the titular character as he is a Kung Fu cop who will have to travel through time to defeat the most dangerous criminal of all time: Adolf Hitler (Jorma Taccone). With the help of Hackerman (Leopold Nilsson), who can even hack time, he travels to the past in order to face his fearless enemy. Along the way we encounter dozens of wacky characters like Triceracop, Thor, two Viking babes named Barbarian and Katana, who save him from the Laser Raptors. This is a flat out crazy homage to those classic films, but unfortunately despite it all I never really had fun with the film. It was an entertaining watch and it was interestingly produced to feel like an authentic 80's movie, but the screenplay was just too bizarre for my liking. I was born in 1981 so this film should appeal to me, but I didn't get any sense of nostalgia. I did enjoy however, the score of the film and the song from the Hoff. It made my viewing experience a little more entertaining. Despite some funny moments, the short was a miss for me. http://estebueno10.blogspot.com/

Hitler: (Phoning the police) "Hello is this the police?" Police officer on the phone: "Yes". Hitler: "Fuck you!" Kung Fury started off as a fan film made by David Sandberg that got released on the YouTube as 30 min short film, but in a matter of hours it was a big hit with it's views and the amount of people loved it because they got that nostalgic 80's feel to it. I got so much praised and so much love that it got a big release. So I checked it out myself just to see what was all the fuss about and I got to say that Kung Fury is the coolest action movie of 2015, it's right up there with Mad Max: Fury Road. What really surprise me is that this is just a fan movie and it blows my mind how fans can make a better and more well made movie then even Hollywood can sh*t out, I mean David Sandberg put a lot of effort to make the whole movie look like a out of date VHS tape and to catch the 80's magic and it payed off so well. The movie is really funny, the actor who played Hitler in the movie did really good and David Sandberg made a pretty awesome movie that's creative and fresh. For problems I had for this movie these only a couple like: These one scene towards the end that kind of lost me a little and that's the end battle with Hitler vs. Kung Fury. Some of the dialogue needs improving a little bit, but besides that this movie is awesome and it brought a lot of the 80's action fluff that we as movie lovers loved in the first place and it's so good to see it again in this brilliant 30 min short movie. It's free on YouTube if you want to check it out and the video is only 30 mins long and it was 30 mins of awesomeness.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. Its just a really cool short movie that take you back to the amazing 80:s. I do remember that time and some things you just wanna have back. The music, the early electronics etc etc.. The story and the visuals in this movie is groundbreaking! Never have it been a short movie with this tight storyline. When it starts, its on, O yes! 100% Kung Fu, 100% viking power, 100% unimaginable sounds and 100% one of the strangest short movies of all time. So give yourself a 30min of time and see this master piece!

I was stoked on the trailer but when I saw it it was pretty disappointing. Don't get me wrong, the action and visuals are wonderful. In fact, it has one of the funnest Tim-and-Eric-esque action scenes I've seen in ANY movie. The problem is the writing and the humor. I won't talk about the character development. It's a half hour short so its totally understandable that they couldn't explore their characters and ideas more. However, it can be argued that, knowing the piece was going to be this short, the creators should have tailored their script to be more concise for the short film format. So let's focus on the humor. If you have a setting and premise that are absurd and ridiculous, you don't need to fill it with jokes. If you fill it with jokes then EVERYTHING becomes absurd and the audience has nothing to hold on to. The audience cannot point at anything and say, "THAT is the ridiculous element, THAT is the funny thing". This is why so many movies that intentionally try to be "so bad, they're good" fail (I'm looking at you Troma). Examples: >The use of one liners. You don't need to have your character struggling to think of one liners. Having your character struggling to think of one liners becomes the joke, not the actual one liner. It is bringing attention to the absurdity of one liners existing, rather than just allowing the one liner to happen and be its own funny and awesome thing. Instead of the character struggling to think of, and then delivering, a really bad one liner, just have them deliver the bad one liner with stupid confidence. >POSSIBLE SPOILER HERE Another example is in the animated sequence. "I'm afraid you're dead" "What? But it looks so real?" "Yeah..." The joke here is that our stupid hero thinks the cartoon world looks real. However, this joke is diminished by having the spirit cobra say "yeah..." and look at the camera with a "can you believe how dumb this guy is?" attitude. The audience already knows the character is dumb from the character's dialogue, they don't need another character reminding them. I hear they're turning this into a feature so hopefully they resolve the writing issues. If they treated the absurd setting and characters as serious, it would create for a much stronger piece. As it is now, it's just a disappointing mess. Overall: +great visuals +great action +some clever ideas +awesome music, love mitch murder +creators are very talented -forced jokes -nazi bad guys aren't funny anymore -really dumb hasselhoff joke

This is just great entertainment, I backed this on Kickstarter some time ago and have been following and waiting for the reveal of this film, the extra Hoff music video that came out a bit before this was just extra candy for an 80 kid like me :) It spans a lot of different times and has some really nicely done scenes in all of them, of course the future is the most fun, but also the mix of prehistoric time is great and Nazi Germany with everything in it is also fun. The characters are very different, they are both interesting well maybe more strange at times, but also fun and has their own characteristics and special powers. It is truly very well thought of and executed and I was very much entertained.