16 Brilliant WTF Moments From Kung Fury

Hitler vs ninjas vs laser raptors vs Thor.

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Laser Unicorns

You don't really need to get to the end of any sentence involving ninjas, 80s synths, dinosaurs, time travel and David Hasselhoff before people start foaming and handing over their money blindly. And to a certain extent that premise was always going to be inevitable as soon as a certain kind of cinema fan got wind of the true potential of Kickstarter.

Having been launched back in December 2013 with a trailer shot by title star David Sandberg (a former music video and commercial director with a properly lunatic idea) on $5000, Kung Fury took the crowd-funding platform by storm and exceeded its target after just two days. That's what combining 80s action movie with a very self-consciously meta approach to parody and homage and dinosaurs and Hitler will do for you.

Now that the film has been released on Youtube in full (31 minutes of genius, jaw-dropping lunacy with a lavish side of humour) everything that Sandberg promised - violence, brilliance and a full-blooded, bonkers spirit - has come delightfully to life. It's not a five star film; it's not even on the same plane of existence as most things you'll see in 2015, or what you saw in 1985. It's something else entirely.

And that is a decidedly brilliant thing. Kung Fury takes the intrepid, outrageous spirit of something like Kung Fu Hustle and pushes it through a Saints Row filter to create something some deliciously unexpected and satisfying that you may just want to redefine your parameters for entertaining cinema...

16. The Opening Sequence (Skateboard Vs Cop)

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Laser Unicorns

Straight away the film shows its colours, making it clear that a very self-conscious commitment to hyper-violence and ridiculousness is as important as the drenched aesthetic and the gloriously kitsch 80s soundtrack.

It achieves that by having a gang of street toughs respond to a foolish cop by stomping a skateboard under his car and sending it careering through the air, before peppering it with bullets.

If you had any suspicions that Kung Fury wasn't going to live up to the billing, this early flash of silliness should have stamped it out immediately. And despite the intentionally aged visuals, the car flip is actually pretty impressive. At least it seems the kickstarters invested the $600k they picked up properly.

And that's the whole point really: Laser Unicorns know exactly what they're paying homage to, and where the money had to be spent to make it a faithful homage (as well as a spoof).

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