What started life as a joke trailer on YouTube for a film that didn't exist by David Sandberg and his mates, the response was so positive that he decided to crowdfund a full version to be made available online for free. Kung Fury is the result.
Serving as a colossal love-letter to 80's action cinema, the film starts in 1985 Miami, where an arcade cabinet springs to life and starts murdering random people. Enter Kung Fury, a cop with super human martial arts skills who comes to the rescue. But when the whole police force is murdered by a time travelling super criminal, it's up to Kung Fury to solve the case and of course, kick some major a***.
I first heard about this thanks to a tie in indie video game, and upon first watch I honestly didn't know what to make of it. The whole thing is an 80's parody, with purposefully wonky acting and dialog... (I think?) along with questionable effects. When I started to read more into it though, I began to develop a whole new appreciation for it. David Sandberg and a few of his friends basically made this whole thing in his house. Everything is CG apart from the people. Adding in all the stupid little jokes that poke fun at the 80s, along with animated sections that pay tribute to 80's Japanese animation, and the purposefully bad 'tracking' to make it look like a dodgy vhs tape, it blows my mind that a small group of people can make something like this.
And then, there's the action. The intro is just ridiculous ott 80's style nonsense, and peppered throughout are gunfights, lazer raptors and kung fu masters... but then there's a huge fight scene near the end where Kung Fury takes on wave after wave of enemy soldiers that is mind-blowingly good. Like, better than actual film good. Just IMAGINE what this guy could do with a proper budget and effects team...
All in all, if you are a fan of 80's action films and are in the mood for some tongue in cheek absolute nonsense that is perhaps the most self aware film ever released, then I can't recommend this highly enough. I mean, David Hasslehoff sings the theme tune. That is all you need to know.
Serving as a colossal love-letter to 80's action cinema, the film starts in 1985 Miami, where an arcade cabinet springs to life and starts murdering random people. Enter Kung Fury, a cop with super human martial arts skills who comes to the rescue. But when the whole police force is murdered by a time travelling super criminal, it's up to Kung Fury to solve the case and of course, kick some major a***.
I first heard about this thanks to a tie in indie video game, and upon first watch I honestly didn't know what to make of it. The whole thing is an 80's parody, with purposefully wonky acting and dialog... (I think?) along with questionable effects. When I started to read more into it though, I began to develop a whole new appreciation for it. David Sandberg and a few of his friends basically made this whole thing in his house. Everything is CG apart from the people. Adding in all the stupid little jokes that poke fun at the 80s, along with animated sections that pay tribute to 80's Japanese animation, and the purposefully bad 'tracking' to make it look like a dodgy vhs tape, it blows my mind that a small group of people can make something like this.
And then, there's the action. The intro is just ridiculous ott 80's style nonsense, and peppered throughout are gunfights, lazer raptors and kung fu masters... but then there's a huge fight scene near the end where Kung Fury takes on wave after wave of enemy soldiers that is mind-blowingly good. Like, better than actual film good. Just IMAGINE what this guy could do with a proper budget and effects team...
All in all, if you are a fan of 80's action films and are in the mood for some tongue in cheek absolute nonsense that is perhaps the most self aware film ever released, then I can't recommend this highly enough. I mean, David Hasslehoff sings the theme tune. That is all you need to know.