Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
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Director: | Steve Oedekerk | Actors: | Steve Oedekerk (as Chosen One/Dubbed Voices), Fei Lung (as Master Pain (Betty)), Leo Lee (as Young Master Pain), Ling Ling Tse (as Ling), Lin Yan (as Dying Ling), Chia Yung Liu (as Wimp Lo), Hui Lou Chen (as Master Tung), Chi Ma (as Master Doe), Jennifer Tung (as Whoa), Lo Ming (as Father), Peggy Lu (as Mother), Tad Horino (as Chew Fat Lip), Tori Tran (as Peasant Woman), Simon Rhee (as Young Master Pain's Henchman), Joon B. Kim (as Henchman #2) | Country: | USA | Category: | Action | Year: | 2002 | Personal Rating: | |
| Description: | *** DVD Rip: No - Quality: Low *** Kung Pow: Enter the Fist is a 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, one of which is a cow trained in the martial arts. | Imported Comments: | Using japanese footage for a "new" film isn't a particularly new idea. Woody Allen did it all the way back in the 60's with "What's Up, Tiger Lily?" Haim Saban has made a career out of it. Anyways, our hero the chosen has taken an existing martial arts movie and dubbed himself in using Bluescreen with humorous intention. The result? A goofy seventy minutes. Some jokes fall flat, and some are funny but quickly wear out. (Some jokes appear deliberately stretched out to pad the running time. Not the best idea in the world.) Nonetheless, I did laugh, about half the time. Steve O. has some good comic instincts, and while sometimes he can spend a lot of time building up to a ho-hum gag, he can also elicit some very powerful cheap laughs. I can't justify someone paying full-price for this movie (70 minutes isn't my money's worth), but I imagine this will have a healthy life on home video. | Languages: | English | Subtitles: | None | Length: | 81 | Video format: | DivX 3.11 Low Motion | Audio format: | MPEG Layer 3 (MP3) | Resolution: | 352x176 | Files sizes (Mb): | 273 |