Kung Fu Hustle is just a joy. I can't remember a single moment in the entire film in which I wasn't grinning like a loon. This is kind of odd for Kung Fu movies. Having watched, oh, I don't know, a hundred-odd Jackie Chan films, the formula seems to be: Fight scene, 20 minutes of "wacky" (Lord, preserve us from wackiness) comedy and some strained plotting, another fight scene, rinse and repeat. ...

The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is great. That is to say, the radio play, the novel, and the TV series are great. The film is mediocre. Maybe this opinion is just a product of my own encyclopedic knowledge of Hitch-hiker's (when I was fourteen I read the first four books in one day), and I was simply judging the film from my own preconcieved notions of how the film 'should' be. Certainly ...

The interesting, or I should say one of the many interesting things about Batman is that he is the most re-interpreted, cross-media renditions of a contemporary character. People tend to think of him as a 'comic book character', but that ceased to be true a long time ago. It's true that there are thousands of comics out there, but when you pile on the live-action TV show, the four animated series, ...

The script sucks. That doesn't mean you can't eke some enjoyment out of the film. It just means that not only is the dialogue clunky, the scenes don't flow. The scenes exist purely to teletype (in bold) the plot points, as the story struggles to weave all the pieces together before the end of the film- you can almost audibly hear the 'revelations' clicking into place. "This scene exists to expl ...