Upon my initial viewing of the film Kung-Fu Hustle I found it to be deeply enjoyable. A great combination of exciting action and hilarious visuals, the film left me in constant state of uncontrollable laughter, which might be why I overall regret watching it in public area. Raechel Dumas argues that the film Kung-Fu Hustle sacrifices its sense of Chinese identity in its attempt to achieve global appeal. Though I am not as fluent in the field as she is, I find her argument flawed in that she seems to go into this paper with biased, often contradicting herself as well as overlooking many details. In her article Raechel discusses Bruce Lee and his contribution to the Kung-Fu genre seemingly as a reference to compare against Kung-Fu Hustle. In examining Bruce Lee, Raechel brings up Bruce Lee’s “style of no style” in which she quotes Bruce Lee saying “...styles tend to not only separate man because they have their own doctrines and these doctrines become gospel truth that you cannot change, but if you say “Here I am as a human being. How can I express myself, totally and completely?” that way you won’t create a style because style is a crystallization - that way, it is a process of continual growth.” This philosophy is the basis of the kung-fu genre as it breaks from the traditions of the wuxia literature and the link to the past and focused on self expression. Raechel notes this in her discussion and yet when analysing the portrayal of kung-fu in Kung-Fu Hustle Raechel seemingly holds the film to a different standard as she criticizes the film for diverging from the normal format. If anything this film truly holds the spirit of kung-fu films as it uses its portrayal to break norms, to not be confined by style.