Talk:Kung Fu Hustle/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Khazar2 (talk · contribs) 03:27, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

I'll be glad to take this review. In the next few days, I'll do a close readthrough, noting here any issues I can't immediately fix myself, and then follow with the criteria checklist. Thanks in advance for your work on this one! -- Khazar2 (talk) 03:27, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

• Just a heads up that I won't have Internet access for the next 3-7 days. I apologize for the delay this will cause in the review. -- Khazar2 (talk) 16:36, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Initial comments

This looks very strong on first pass, as I'd expect from a former featured article that was only narrowly delisted. I've made some copyedits and prose tweaks as I went; please feel free to revert anything you disagree with, and doublecheck that I haven't accidentally added any new errors. Anything I couldn't immediately fix is listed below. Out of this, the biggest issue is probably the original research in the parodies/references section. Let me know your thoughts, and thanks again for your work. -- Khazar2 (talk) 21:49, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

• "After achieving commercial success with Shaolin Soccer,[2] Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia began to develop Kung Fu Hustle in 2002. " -- Did Columbia Pictures also develop Shaolin Soccer? The later description implies it was another company.
• "Kung Fu Hustle was produced with a budget of US$20 million" -- I'm not sure this detail belongs under the header "choreography".
• "Yuen managed to take seemingly outdated wuxia fighting styles like the Deadly Melody and Buddhist Palm and recreate them on the screen with his own imagination" -- This perhaps verges on opinion, with the strong implication that Yuen succeeded at something difficult. "recreate them on the screen with his own imagination" is also so vague that it could simply be cut. I'd suggest either attributing this in-text, or rewrite it more neutrally, e.g., "In his choreography, Yuen drew on seemingly outdated wuxia fighting styles like the Deadly Melody and Buddhist Palm."
• "under high resolution" -- would it be better to say "in high resolution"?
• "Having lost the Taiwanese film market in the late 1980s following a visit to China" -- What does it mean to say he "lost the market"? Is the sense here that he became unpopular?
• "Sing studied the same Buddhist Palm style" -- the same as what?
• "In reality, it does not leave palm-shaped craters and holes on impact." -- this is a real style as well? the previous sentence indicated it was just a wuxia film.
• The comparisons to Of Mice and Men, Palm of Ru Lai, The Return of the Condor Heroes, Internal Affairs, Blues Brothers, Untouchables, The Godfather, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Raging Bull, and Way of the Dragon appear to be original research--is there any source that contains these comparisons that could be included here? I'm not sure this information is worth including if it doesn't appear in any sources.
• "As a result, Kung Fu Hustle 2 is slated for a 2014 release" -- Is this still accurate? The source appears to be a dead link from 2005.
• "An MMO 2D side-scrolling fighter game based on the film is currently undergoing closed beta testing in Taiwan, and is due for release in 2010." -- This paragraph clearly needs to be updated. -- Khazar2 (talk) 21:49, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

Closing review

Since it's been more than a week without some of the more important points above being corrected or responded to, I'm closing this review for now and not listing for GA at this time. I think that this article's getting close, but needs a little more sourcing and clarity at some points. (As I noted above, the biggest concern is the collection of apparent original research in the "Parodies and references" section, which needs some secondary sources.)

I hope you won't give up on this one, though! Renominate this one as soon as you've addressed some or all of the above, and I think this one will be ready for passing. Thanks for all your work on the article for this great movie! -- Khazar2 (talk) 13:44, 13 March 2013 (UTC)