Sing (Stephan Chow), a young gangsta wannabe discovers his inner Kung-fu master and ends up participating in a massive ongoing, almost surreal, battle between various over-the-top martial-arts masters (purely-evil vs. dubiously-good) and their cannon-fodder minions. The hyper-kinetic, highly-visual action film joyfully steals tropes from everywhere: Bruce Lee films, Tarantino bloodbaths, 'The Matrix' series, Roadrunner cartoons, etc. Director/star Chow is quite funny as the (initially) blustering but ineffectual low-life, as is Lam Chi-chung as Bone, his non-threatening 'muscle' sidekick. Leading the forces of good (such as they are) are the Landlord and Landlady of Pigsty alley (Yuen Wah and Yuen Qiu), unprepossessing characters who turn out to be deadly, almost supernatural, martial-artists and whose skills are put to the test when confronted with the deadliest killer of all, 'The Beast', master of the "Toad Style from the Kwan Lun School". All of the characters (and the actors portraying them) are great, the endless sight-gags are often hilarious, and the script is funny (note: I watched an English-dubbed version). 'Kung-fu Hustle' is essentially one long epic, silly, cartoonish, physics-defying fight with a few scattered tranquil scenes inserted to scrape together some semblance of a plot. Great fun and, for what it is, nearly perfect.