Taking on the unenviable task of making ’80s cop movies seem more ridiculous than they already are…
Kung Fury is a homage/parody not just to buddy cop movies but to 80’s movies in general. Think Running Man, Lethal Weapon, Escape from LA, stuff like that.
The problem with parodying such a ludicrous era is that so much of it already feels like a parody of itself. Kung Fury really ramps things up though to the point that a lot of the visual jokes are so out there it is actually shockingly funny. Cult classic and blaxploitation parody Black Dynamite overcame a similar problem the same way.
A feature length film based around this concept would have been too much but thirty minutes is perfect for director/actor David Sandberg to see his project realised in spectacular fashion via a budget raised almost entirely from crowd fund project Kickstarter.
Sandberg is hilarious as well as being really really good looking and I would be interested to see him take on something else actually, such is the quality and imagination behind Kung Fury.
Any film with Adolf Hitler portrayed as a Nazi ninja called Kung Führer is worth looking into as far as I am concerned.