KUNG FU YOGA BLU-RAY 2017

Kung Fu Yoga makes itself difficult to hate. It’s so colorful, spirited, jovial, and excited to exist, each new minute provides something to smile at. 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.

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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. 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. Good luck finding that scene in another movie.

Creativity washes over this Chan/Stanley Tong production, their eighth together. Chan finds more choregraphed inspiration here than in five or six of his previous imports combined. He frequently uses Bollywood star Disha Patani as an impromptu weapon, taking a pause to stare down Kung Fu Yoga’s villain, Sonu Sood.

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