History YMMV / KungFuHustle

** Another meta example was the bad blood between Eva Huang Shengyi (Fong the mute girl) and Stephen Chow's agency after the film was released. In August 2005, Huang unilaterally ended her contract with Chow's company, citing unreasonable demands, exploitation and threats. Both sides sued each other in Hong Kong and China. In March 2007, the Hong Kong court declared that Chow's company had lost the suit. Allegedly, this has nothing to do with Chow himself and says she still respects him.

** Another meta example was the bad blood between Eva Huang Shengyi (Fong the mute girl) and Stephen Chow after the film was released. In August 2005, Huang unilaterally ended her contract with Chow's company, citing exploitation and threats. Both sides sued each other in Hong Kong and China. In March 2007, the Hong Kong court declared that Chow's company had lost the suit.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Yuen Qiu (Landlady), who earned an award nomination and several roles in later movies.[[note]]She was allegedly just dropping a friend off who was auditioning but the staff thought she would make a great Landlady.[[/note]] Even more amazingly, Yuen Qiu had actually stopped acting for almost two decades prior to this film.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: The beggar who sold young Sing his martial arts manual is a huge case of MaybeMagicMaybeMundane. Is he actually some hidden kung fu master, who correctly knew Sing's destiny? Is he just some bum talking out of his ass for money but ended up accidentally correct? Or maybe he's both; genuinely well-versed and a good judge of kung fu prowess but considering he's living in squalor, isn't above asking for money while he's trying to set a kid with potential on the right path?

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Yuen Qiu (Landlady), who earned an award nomination and several roles in later movies.[[note]]She was allegedly just dropping a friend off who was auditioning but the staff thought she would make a great Landlady.[[/note]] The Three Masters also tend to make up quite an impression in audiences due their interesting characters and introductory fight scene, with many viewers lamenting their deaths.

* AmericansHateTingle: Not the film itself, but the bizarre GagDub it received in Spain, which made the characters speak in very stereotypical Spanish accents (to try to convey the effect of the original, where the actors used several Chinese accents too) and altered their lines at will to insert naff cultural jokes (some of them, to make matters worse, being TotallyRadical for the time of the release). Spanish critics and watchers were dismayed alike upon watching the thing, to the point many people reportedly left theaters a few minutes into the movie, and specialized internet forums received cadres of visitors asking whether it was all a bizarre joke or even some kind of sociological experiment. Nowadays, while there are who appreciate it as a brave decision to adapt the original in a sort of faithful way, most Spaniards consider it rather a grievously failed example of {{Woolseyism}}, with some of them seeing it halfheartedly as a case of SoBadItsGood.

* HarsherInHindsight: Meta example. Chow's relationship with long-time collaborator and friend Ng Man-tat (last seen in ''Film/ShaolinSoccer'') soured over this film, allegedly because Chow at the last moment used another actor for the role which was meant for Ng[[note]]Apparently, the role was the Landlord (which went to Yuen Wah)[[/note]]. Over the next two decades, the relationship gradually mended, but was never the same again[[note]]There were also counter-claims that the two never collaborated again simply because their schedules were perpetually in conflict, or due to Ng's ill health.[[/note]]. Just before his death in February 2021, Ng even said publicly that he's still open to collaboration with Chow as long as "Stephen's not retired, and I'm not dead".