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One of my all time favorites.

Highly Overrated But Still Good

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Kung Pow (2002) is a haunting, chilling cinematic masterpiece. I weep for the beauty of every frame. Every dumb joke that leaves the mouths of these genius actors makes me feel laser beams of joy erupt through my body. I am constantly amazed by this movie, it was better than any I've seen yet. To be honest, I am wholeheartedly shocked that it was not nominated in every Oscar category for every year that movie's have been being made ever. It is the greatest movie ever to be written, filmed, and released for public consumption. Amazing. 11/10.

Kung Pow: Enter the Fist (2002): Dir: Steve Oedekerk / Cast: Steve Oedekerk, Fei Lung, Ling Ling Tse, Hui Lou Chen, Lau-Kar Wing: Utterly stupid to the highest degree but that is the point. Nobody was attempting to create art but I still laughed throughout the entire spectacle. Plot doesn't matter as it satires a Japanese film Tiger and Crane Fist onto itself with clichés in full exposure. Director Steve Oedekerk plays the Chosen One raised by various rodents and wishes to avenge the death of his parents at the hands of Master Payne (or Betty as he prefers). Betty makes his presence known under the leadership of the Evil Council in a hilarious jab at Independence Day. There is a martial arts fight scene against a cow in a jab at Twister. Running joke regards Oedekerk providing all of the voices completely incoherent as to when the actors speak. He plays the hero who has a tongue with a face of its own, and advised by the one-breasted woman to seek training. In hilarious supporting roles are Fei Lung as Betty whose defeat seems impossible. Ling Ling Tse plays the damsel with the dubbed, "Oowee, oowee!" Hui Lou Chen plays his trainer who seems to become increasingly ill. Lau-Kar Wing has the triumphant name of Wimp Lo, which must be encouraging. Celebrated lunacy with much originality and a cow that fights its last before falling to exhaustion drained of its source. Score: 9 / 10

Kung Pow! Enter the Fist is not your average martial arts flick. For one thing, it stars a white guy- with a face on his tongue. Plus there's a dastardly villain called Betty, a climactic fight with a cow, and a mysterious one-breasted woman who shows up in one scene and is never seen again. And no, I am not on crack as I write this, just Mountain Dew and gratuitous amounts of AC/DC.Anyways, as you've probably guessed, Kung-Pow is intended as a send up of all those campy, poorly dubbed kung-fu movies from the Far East. Those of you who are Woody Allen fans or have particularly long memories may remember a film called What's Up, Tiger Lilly, in which Allen took two low budget Japanese spy movies, moved some of the scenes around, and completely re-dubbed it to create an entirely new, entirely nonsensical plot. Here, writer/director/producer/leading man Steve Oedekerk takes things a step further, digitally replacing the original film's star with himself, and adding completely new scenes, like the aforementioned one with the cow.Like What's Up, Tiger Lilly, Kung Pow! Is utterly ridiculous, and makes little if any sense, which is the whole point. Exhibit A is the dialogue. As stated before, all original lines have been replaced by new, hilariously nonsensical ones. Seriously, half the lines in this movie have nothing to do with anything. Ling, the Chosen One's love interest seems to be voiced by the same actress who does Miss Piggy. And in a nod to the usual quality of dubbing in Asian films, many characters sound just like fifth-graders reading from a Chinese-to-English dictionary. There's even a part where the guy's mouth keeps moving forever, and all he says is "no." And this is far from the only aspect of traditional martial arts movies that gets lampooned. The training sequences, the requisite close up of each fighter's face accompanied by dramatic music, the dramatic last words of the hero's dying sensei, and many more clichés are stretched well beyond their logical limits. Just for good measure, they even threw in parodies of the Lion King and the Matrix.And just in case the ludicrous re-dubbing and slaying of clichés weren't enough, Oedekerk goes for further laughs by suspending all attempts at believability and adding whatever random ideas popped into his head. One suspects that much of the story for this movie was fleshed out by guys sitting around a table taking bong hits, which if true makes this one of the best things ever created as a result of drugs. Besides the fight with the cow, there's also a fight between the bad guy and a baby, and several fights set to hip-hop. And there's that tongue-face, who has lines of his own and proves key to defeating the Council of Evil. Add an intermission straight out of Monty Python and a trailer for a fictional sequel, and you get one of the most oddball productions in many years.From this review it may sound like the filmmaker is desperately trying to inject humor any way he can, which may be why most critics panned Kung Pow! upon its release. But I personally could not stop laughing. This movie is simply to oddball and too original not to like. Even its flaws, like the sub-par CGI, only add to the campy feel. It may not engage your intellect, broaden your horizons, or make much sense, but if you have any experience with its source material, Kung Pow! Enter the Fist will have you laughing too hard to care.

Kung Pow (2002)5 word summaryChosen one battles against evilKung Pow is truly one of the dumbest and most ridiculous film ever made, it also is one of my personal favorite comedies ever made. After watching the previews back in 02 I thought this movie looked stupid, I had no interest in seeing it. The main focus of the trailer is the battle against the cow and that looked stupid. Most of my friends at the time thought it looked hilarious. One day, while home sick, I decided to watch it against my better judgment. And what happened? I laughed my ass off. The comedy in it is really, really stupid and yet genius at the same time. one of those things that prove there's a thin line between genius and insanity. Right when you figure out the humor they toss in something you didn't expect that is just so random and hilarious that takes the film to another level. For instance, the opening scene. We see a baby fighting a man. He flips all over, pees on him, and soon the man gets frustrated and burns down the house. The baby flies out the window and falls down a hill. At this point you think you know the humor. Alright its immature dumb humor but it seems like it will be OK. Then we see what the film really is like. The baby lands on a path going through the hill. A woman picks him up and holds him swaying and mentioning how cute he is. She turns and walks to the hill and throws him off saying "bye bye" and the baby continues to fall. So random and yet it's a remarkably genius addition to the scene. A scene that most films would have stopped 2 minutes earlier. It's the first clue that this will not be your average comedy. Kung Pow has so many great lines. Along with Anchorman and Monty Python and the Holy Grail, it is one of my favorite movies to quote.My main problem with the film is the same reason I didn't originally want to see it. The fight with the cow. I do and always have skipped that scene, it goes on to long, it doesn't look good, and it's just not funny. But for some reason that's what the film is remembered for, and that's a shame.Other than that I haven't much else to say. The film is definitely not for everyone and I don't get mad when someone I talk to didn't like it or the not so high ratings it gets. I understand it's a dumb film but I do truly believe it is fantastic. If you're willing and open to it maybe you will see it for the genius it is.8/10