The best entertainment film of the year up to now comes from a very unexpected source - for me at least. I am no fan of the kung-fu films genre, and I am not sure if I have ever survived such a movie for its whole duration. Certainly, films like "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," "Hero" and "House of Flying Daggers" may be mentioned here, but I do not believe that they belong to the category, they are rather more like historical legends, with the martial arts part of the artistic fabric, same as the camera work or the music.

Here we deal with a very different approach. Director Stephen Chow takes the popular entertainment genre of kung fu action and a very basic melodramatic story and immerses it in a sea of fun, creating an extravaganza of color, images, effects and gravity defying ballet. The film is both violent and funny, it has some of the gruesome violence of Terentino and the innocence of the mute comedies at the same time. The supreme master of fight effects Yuen Wo Ping ('Crouching Tiger', 'Matrix', 'Kill Bill') is at his best.

Superbe entertainment by any scale.