Enamored with fantasy and charm over realism, Kung Fu Yoga goes for zany. The ludicrous nature speaks to a foreign sensibility. By the end of Kung Fu Yoga, Jackie Chan drove a car with a lion in the backseat and reunited India with their historical heritage. The Nicolas Cage National Treasure flicks made more sense, if never accomplishing anything.
Multi-million dollar diamonds, priceless cultural artifacts, and underground chests bursting with gold coins exist to be discovered – and quickly for being hidden since 600 AD.
He frequently uses Bollywood star Disha Patani as an impromptu weapon, taking a pause to stare down Kung Fu Yoga’s villain, Sonu Sood.Ĭhan, playing a 60-something college professor and archaeologist, is brought into a treasure hunt only feasible in movies. Chan finds more choregraphed inspiration here than in five or six of his previous imports combined. Good luck finding that scene in another movie.Ĭhan finds more choregraphed inspiration here than in five or six of his previous Chinese imports combinedĬreativity washes over this Chan/Stanley Tong production, their eighth together. At one point, characters fight their way out of a hyena pen, kicking and running from the clearly CG animals in a ridiculous escape sequence. If it’s a bit laborious between set-pieces (and it is), Kung Fu Yoga’s make-up time is spent riffing Fast and Furious or setting up a cartoon-saturated brawl in an Indian bazaar. All of the stiff, stubborn English being spoken drifts away in a wild concoction of comedy, drama, and adventure, sprinting through genres on its way to a Bollywood dance climax. It’s so colorful, spirited, jovial, and excited to exist, each new minute provides something to smile at.
Kung Fu Yoga makes itself difficult to hate. Its purpose: International togetherness, bonding Indian and Chinese cultures through a wild, irreverent action flick, utterly content to disavow logic. Every actor is a male model, every actress a female super model, the action is utterly improbable, and the plot gibberish. No moment in Kung Fu Yoga is less than total fantasy.
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