'Kung Fu Hustle': The Grin Reaper From: The Washington Post | Date: April 22, 2005| Author: Ann Hornaday | Copyright 2005 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

"Kung Fu Hustle" is one of the most buzzed-about comedies to come out this year, but for some reason -- the weather? The idiots in the next row talking all the way through the movie? -- its charms eluded me.

Admittedly the actor and director Stephen Chow has created a larky, energetic homage not just to his own genre but also to all movies, everywhere and throughout time. But for all its stylishness, verve and moments of visual poetry, the relentlessly punishing slapstick and overa...

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