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Kung Fury (2015) - David Sandberg

5/29/2015

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David Sandberg's Kung Fury is a crowd-funded 30 minute short film that aims to place itself among some of the more celebrated absurdest b-movie "so-bad-it's-good" type of films.  The film is centered around Kung Fury, a god-like Kung Fu Master and police officer, who after stopping a rampaging arcade game from tearing apart Miami, finds himself being torn a new one by his Captain for the destruction caused.  When his captain is murdered by the most lethal kung fu master of all time, Adolf Hitler, Kung Fury must travel back in time to Nazi Germany to kill the Kung Fuhrer and stop his Nazi empire.  With are Laser Raptors, Thor, Homicidal Arcade Games, Kung Fu Hitler, among other absurdities, Kung Fury is a film that left me overwhelmed and wanting more.  At 30 minutes long, Kung Fury feels awfully short, and while some would argue this was more than enough time, the film could have easily been expanded a bit in order to let the absurdity breath.  Dripping in 80's nostalgia, from a time travel sequence that looks very similar to something out of Nintendo Power magazine, to loads of cheesy one-liners,and an animated sequence reminiscent of the time period, Kung Fury is a film very much made for this particular generation.  I particularly enjoyed the homage to VHS, with the film playfully illustrating the VHS static and tracking issues that haunted so many 80s kids on a regular basis while trying to watch their favorite movie.  For fans of this strange sub-genre of filmmaking, David Sandberg's Kung Fury should satisfy, but if you are not someone who enjoys these type of films, stay away.

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