A street cop (David Sandberg) is hit by lightning and bitten by a cobra, transforming him into Kung Fury, a powerful martial arts master dedicated to fighting evil. When Adolf Hitler (Jorma Taccone)—the Kung Führer—travels to the present to kill Kung Fury, our hero leaps into action—by travelling back in time to 1940s Nazi Germany to battle the dastardly dictator.
We've already had faux 70s grind-house and retro 80s horror; now we have faux straight-to-video action in the form of Kung Fury, an outrageously daft short that offers up such silliness as a killer arcade machine, a sexy, wolf-riding Viking warrior woman armed with a mini-gun, dinosaurs with laser eyes, a cop with the head of a triceratops, and a hacker who uses his computer skills to heal bullet wounds.
The film features a heavy dose of tasteless 80s graphics, a fitting synthesizer soundtrack and even goes so far as to throw in video tracking problems for that authentic VHS vibe; sadly, it also includes an awful lot of unconvincing CGI which seriously detracts from its credibility as a product of the 80s. Had the makers gone 'old-school' and used some shonky stop-motion for the robots and dinosaurs and a few bad matte paintings for the backdrops, it would have been a whole lot more convincing—and, as far as I'm concerned, a lot more entertaining.
We've already had faux 70s grind-house and retro 80s horror; now we have faux straight-to-video action in the form of Kung Fury, an outrageously daft short that offers up such silliness as a killer arcade machine, a sexy, wolf-riding Viking warrior woman armed with a mini-gun, dinosaurs with laser eyes, a cop with the head of a triceratops, and a hacker who uses his computer skills to heal bullet wounds.
The film features a heavy dose of tasteless 80s graphics, a fitting synthesizer soundtrack and even goes so far as to throw in video tracking problems for that authentic VHS vibe; sadly, it also includes an awful lot of unconvincing CGI which seriously detracts from its credibility as a product of the 80s. Had the makers gone 'old-school' and used some shonky stop-motion for the robots and dinosaurs and a few bad matte paintings for the backdrops, it would have been a whole lot more convincing—and, as far as I'm concerned, a lot more entertaining.