From the desk of The Movie Snob:

Kung Fu Hustle (B+). I am not a big fan of martial-arts movies (especially ones that are apologies for tyranny like Hero), but the reviews made this one seem different from the pack. So I caught it down at the dollar theater and got much more than my money's worth. Ebert wrote that it is like a cross between Jackie Chan and Bugs Bunny, which is about right. I would also compare it to the great John Carpenter-Kurt Russell collaboration Big Trouble in Little China. Basically, Hustle is kung fu played for laughs, with increasingly over-the-top antics and special effects as it goes on. The dreaded Axe Gang, which is a vast horde of black-suited and top-hatted martial artists, menaces the residents of the aptly named slum of Pig Sty. The Gang gets more than it bargains for, however, as Pig Sty turns out to harbor a surprisingly high number of anonymous kung-fu masters of its own. So the Gang recruits bigger and badder assassins, who only draw out even more and better good-guy kung-fu masters, etc., etc. I was amused the whole time, and laughed out loud more than once. Check it out.