Do yourself a favor and watch ‘Kung Fury’
“Kung Fury” is a fast-paced 31-minute film that begins with the main character Kung Fury killing a sentient arcade game machine that runs amok, followed by Adolf Hitler shooting people through the phone, and a hilarious tech nerd devising a time machine after a mere five-second pause.
That’s right, someone finally directed the perfect video game-commentary movie, “Kung Fury,” even though critics keep calling it a smashing ode to 1980s films about cops, karate, computer nerds, mythical creatures and Miami-style mayhem.
I don’t want to ruin the surprises of this masterpiece, which satirizes not just 1980s movies, but also 1980s arcade games of the old-bit variety, especially the “Street Fighter” platform-fighting series.
It was written, directed and stars Swedish filmmaker David Sandberg, who looks like a young Charlie Sheen delivering lines as if Clint Eastwood were Batman with a sore throat.
The $630,000 movie, featuring violence and language Sarah Palin probably wouldn’t like, was funded via Kickstarter with promotional help from David Hasselhoff, so the Hoff sings and appears briefly.
If you find yourself in the right state of mind this weekend, do yourself a flavor and watch “Kung Fury,” if you’re not already one of the 13 million people who’ve seen the free little film on YouTube.
If you really want to go down the rabbit hole of great recent satires, also watch the Adult Swim film, “Too Many Cooks,” an 11-minute parody of family sitcoms of the 1980s and 1990s.
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