Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
January. 25,2002 PG-13A movie within a movie, created to spoof the martial arts genre. Writer/director Steve Oedekerk uses contemporary characters and splices them into a 1970s kung-fu film, weaving the new and old together. As the main character, The Chosen One, Oedekerk sets off to avenge the deaths of his parents at the hands of kung-fu legend Master Pain. Along the way he encounters some strange characters.
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If you don't like this, we can't be friends.
It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.
It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional
Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
If you are looking for excellence, you are not going to like this movie! But you are looking for laughs strictly without having to turn your brain on, this movie is just for you! Kung Pow oddly enough has likable characters, funny voice acting & dumb but somehow great jokes! Whole idea of this movie was to make it dumb on purpose but still laughable. It's not like Date Movie, Scary Movie or Jack & Jill where those movies are just bad comedies with bad jokes with little effort put into them. The creator put his heart into this and it came out golden! And to add to this great review, I saw this as a kid, found it funny! I recently saw this and I found it much funnier than those 15 years ago! Usually as adults, we don't find those same things as good as it was as a child but this is one of the few times I'd enjoyed something more in my 20's! GREAT JOB, STEVE!!
Kung Pow: Enter the FistGoofy, no, it's beyond Goofy. There needs to be a word for how ridiculous this movie is all throughout. The martial arts film is a edit of archive footage that they got the rights too, dubbed everyone of the voices to complete hilarity.Written, Directed and Stared by Steve Oedekerk. You probably don't recognize his name so I'll list some of his credentials you might know of. Bruce/Evan Almighty, Nutty Professor I and II, Patch Adams, and Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls.I don't laugh easy, and I particularly don't laugh at stupid humor. For instance I don't for the life of me understand the draw of Pewdiepie. Normally I laugh at comedians like Kevin Hart and Lewis C.K. but this movie made me laugh. If it can do that to me then it'll probably bust some guts for others.There are some cultural references in the movie that you'd have to lived through the late 90s and early 2000s to understand. There's a matrix reference, one of the thousands out there with the bullet time bending of the main characters back to avoid the bullets. In this case it's a martial arts cow shooting milk at him. Nuff said."WEE-OOH WEE-OOH WEE-OOH!" - Ling One of the best catch phrases in comedy. I'm probably going to appear as some sort of sociopath (more than normal) saying that at random moments because it's stuck in my head. Good luck getting that ear worm out.Verdict: Cult Classic. Definite watch. It's free on HBO, at the moment, if you got it.
Kung Pow- Enter the Fist is a parody movie. Wait do not run away just yet. Unlike the mass of lackluster parody movies that are produced these days, this movie is actually very funny. Its vehicle is that it uses old footage of kung fu films such as Enter the Dragan and overlays its modern content onto them. Plus add intentionally bad dubbing and you have a movie which never for a second tries to be subtle, ingenious, or intelligent. It's clear that Steve Oedekerk and crew prided themselves on this movie making little or no sense at all. Oedekerk had himself digitally inserted into dozens of existing scenes from other older movies simply because he could and it looked ridiculous.
Kung-Pow is a woefully underrated film. The type of comedy the film contains is certainly not for everyone, but it works wonderfully for those familiar with older kung-fu movies. This movie is like what the "X Movie," series (think "Disaster Movie," "Epic Movie,", etc.) would be if those movies actually bothered to poke fun at the genres they are named after instead of making inane, unfunny pop-culture references.Roughly half of the film's humor won't make any sense at all without prior understanding of kung-fu movies. Bad lip-syncing/dubbing, over-the-top fight scenes and low-quality editing are all targets of parody in this movie and the end results are hilarious. Combining this with generally silly characters and some dumb comedy just works.If you're looking for a comedy movie that isn't too intelligent and you're familiar with kung-fu films, you will probably enjoy this movie a lot. If you aren't, then you should go watch a couple of those kung-fu films then watch this.