Kung Fury Officially Released on YouTube

Posted by on May 28th, 2015   Filed under: Action, Comedy, Internet

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The ultimate crowdfunded homage to ’80s action movies is finally here. David Sandberg’s tongue-in-cheek Kung Fury has officially been released on YouTube after taking Kickstarter by storm back in December of 2013 where it raised over $630,000. That was quite a bit more than their original goal, although it did not meet their budgetary requirements for a feature-length film. In the end, Sandberg and his crew have delivered a 30 minute short film about a renegade cop who travels back in time to kill Hitler (and yeah, maybe it’s for the best that it wasn’t feature-length). Anyway, the good news is that you can now watch Kung Fury in its entirety on YouTube free of charge; check out the movie after the jump and let us know what you think.

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  • Lasermensch3000

    Calling Kung Fury “tongue-in-cheek” is like calling Hitler a petty thief. Completely over the top more likely. I do dig the score, though.

  • Agreed that it was for the best that they didn’t get to expand it to feature length. The best part with Kung Fury was its trailer, and the score.

  • pcch7

    Saw it live last night. Not very good, some funny lines and ideas and that’s about it. I’m a fan of Mitch Murder so I did enjoy the music and also the Hasselhoff song.

  • ECONOMYpolitica

    Video game monster is awesome. Sean, make a game of this.

  • ReelJunkie

    Really really fun short. I just hope studios don’t capitalize on it and make it a feature film…. we all know how Sucker Punch turned out.

  • Todd S. Gallows

    What a struggle it was to get through that one. It’s just a 30 minute FX reel with broad jokes inserted between action scenes, and aimless 80s pandering… I regret contributing to this one.

  • pcch7

    Sandberg has told swedish press that they’ve already had discussions with studios regarding making it a full length feature.

  • ReelJunkie

    Don’t know if I can get through a 90 minutes version of this. Then again, who knows… it might turn out amazing.

  • pcch7

    With real actors and an actual script rather than a bunch of scenes jumbled together maybe it’d be interesting. Personally I’d drop the dinosaur shit and just focus on the time travel 80s b movie aspect.

  • BatemanBegins

    The bad news is that you can’t log this one on Letterboxd.

  • Jr

    Well I thought that was just great.

  • Todd S. Gallows

    Well there’s already one called CoinOp Story… Also a Metroidvania game. Maybe he’s responsible for it. http://www.kamizoto.com/#!coinopstory/chj8

  • Deven Science

    Hell with it! Logged.

  • BatemanBegins

    I think I can hear the Letterboxd police sirens in the distance.

  • I enjoyed every second of it.