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Kung Pow: Enter the Fist

Goofy, 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.

I didn't know what to expect from Kung Pow: Enter the Fist, from the cover, it looked pretty stupid, but my boyfriend said that it was worth a look and that it was pretty funny if I was in the right mind set. But we watched it last night and even if I was in a normal mind set, I thought it was a pretty funny movie. I think I just needed one of those stupid comedies in my night, the one's where you don't have to think, just watch and laugh. Kung Pow: Enter the Fist was interesting where Steve Oedekirk took these old martial arts films and just made them into his own amusing comedy. I think the reason why this movie was so funny besides the ridicules voices was because Steve really had a passion for the film and his writing. Who among us has not made fun of the old martial arts films? It's great to see someone else bring it to life, even it at times it was a bit stupid.

The Chosen One is one of the finest martial arts masters in the world, but his family was murdered when he was just a baby. When he meets the villain who murdered his family, he wants revenge. But he discovers that he needs more strength, with the help of his martial arts teacher, the love of his life that makes strange noises, and his wood chuck nun chucks, he learns the way of the martial arts and now must face the evil villain that plays popular music while defeating his opponents.

Kung Pow: Enter the Fist is stupid, but I'm sure you'll get a couple laughs out of it. Like I said the voices are so over the top that you can't help but at least laugh at the movie if not with it. Steve and the rest of the crew looked like they had so much fun making this movie and they didn't take themselves too seriously. I really loved a lot of the spoofs they had like The Lion King, it was so out there, but it was really funny. Just give this movie a chance, I'm sure you'll have a fun time watching it if you just wanna laugh.

6/10

There's a good chance that when you saw the trailers and TV spots for this movie the first word that came to your mind was "stupid". Yes, this a stupid movie. It's one of the stupidest movies I have ever seen to be honest, but it is also one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. Up until I saw this movie earlier today, I hadn't seen one good movie in 2002 so I can say that this is the best move of 2002..so far. No jokes fall flat [except the gay henchman was sort of annoying at times], the action scenes are well done, and it's always a treat to see really bad movies get spoofed. ****

Only kidding :) Kung Pow is in a league of its own in terms of calibre. It's a slapstick 'chop socky' martial arts comedy full of silliness and ridiculous dialogue. 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.

Kung Pow is absolutely, 100% absurdity and it uses this to its fullest extent.

The plot, if that's what you'd call it, is a mocking of just about every martial arts classic which has a 'wrong fella decides to wreak revenge on the nasty sorts who ruined his life' style story.

Steve Oedekerk is 'The Chosen One' whose mission it is to get revenge on the bad folk in as amusing a way as he possibly can. Master Pain is his nemesis and the bad man directly responsible for the unspeakable acts against his family.

The rest of the movie is purposefully disjointed and has no continuity half the time, but a masterclass in editing is not the point of this exercise. This is simply ridiculous fun, and assuming you switch off your brain completely and wreck any remaining braincells, you will be quite entertained.

As for how funny it is, well, that's quite subjective. Many of the gags are clearly forced and milked (No pun intended (You'll understand that one if you see it)) for all they're worth. However, many *do* work and provide belly laughs. Sure, you'll not have tears rolling down your cheeks but if you're willing to stoop to the dumb level the movie demands of you, you *will* be at least amused.

One thing the movie makes particularly good use of is special effects, with some more than decent CG animation complimenting a number of scenes. Aside from this, the technical merits of the movie are pretty decent, in that the interpolation of old footage and new footage is actually rather seamless and you'll not spot it a lot of the time, except where you're supposed to.

As The Chosen One, Oedekerk seems to have a great time. It's a daft movie, so he indulges in stupidity as a matter of cause, and it works reasonably well. It's always easier to enjoy a film if it appears the actors are enjoying making it.

Overall, leave your brain at the door and do not expect high brow laughs or Jackie Chan style action and you'll probably get something out of this.

I love this movie. I remember getting this as a gift in middle school and I could not stop watching it. Hilarious! Fun! One of a kind! Satire at its finest!

It is a "Savage Killers" (the original) spoof!

Steve Oedekerk is like if Tom Cruise and Paul McCartney morphed into one.

'Kung Pow' is a movie that would have been served better as a five-minute sketch on SNL. Or, it could have worked better as a martial arts spoof a la 'Scary Movie'. Instead, the movie is basically an old kung-fu movie with voices dubbed over in silly style by the movie's director and star Steve Oedekerk.

At first, the dubbing seems moderately amusing, but there is no doubt that this spoof wears thin well before its halfway mark. Although, it has its moments like the cow-fight that does a good job at poking fun at 'The Matrix'. In a movie where the laughs are few and far between, it needed more moments like these.

Rating: 5/10 or (2 stars)

OK... Usually I hate juvenile, pointless humor. Thats why the films of directors like Kevin Smith so attract me. The situations and characters serve as the platform for the jokes.

"Kung Pow!: Enter the Fist" is a movie I should have hated. In fact, when I saw previews for it back in 2002 (five years ago now, wow time flies!), I thought it looked like the worst movie out there.

Finally, in 2004, when my friend convinced me to watch it, I realized just how wrong I was.

"Kung Pow" is without a doubt the stupidest film I have ever seen in my lifetime... bar none. But, I have to say, it is also one of the funniest movies I have seen in quite some time. The humor comes from how dumb it is. Steve Oedekerk (director/writer/star) really does an excellent job at making what is essentially an 80-minute Nickelodeon cartoon entertaining enough for the open minded to enjoy.

I was surprised that within 10 minutes, I was laughing at a pretty constant pace... and laughing with much more gusto than I did with big-budget studio-based duds like the "American Pie" films. (I'm not dissing "Pie", mind you, it just wasn't my cup of tea.) Sure, the humor is pretty random... For example, unnecessary quips from characters, and oddball visual touches added into the footage...

And some of it just falls flat as a pancake... Like our hero (aptly named "The Chosen One") fighting a CG cow, and the fact his tongue has a face and can talk...

But the ingenious parodies of martial arts films in general (everything from bad dubbing to bad visual effects to bad directing/editing) is pulled off perfectly.

If you are willing to look past the fact that you will feel like your IQ is dropping whilst watching this film, you will probably have a blast.

And that is why I give it a very good 8 out of 10.

Kung Pow:Enter the Fist sounded like a failed cheap B-grade movie,with average reviews and without any great success commercially.After watching it,boy,was I surprised.

Making fun of 70's Hong Kong action movies,from the dubbing to cheesy fighting sequences,you really gotta hand it to Steve Oedekerk,who,I'll just say it,has talent at.I have never in my life seen a spoof comedy like this.The meant-to-be-terrible dubbing was annoying at times,but at some parts you can't help it but laugh because it's exactly or beyond what you had in mind when you see these cheesy scenes.I could literally see the Shaw brothers coughing blood at every scene.

As a young Asian,I guess I'm among those few people who could totally enjoy this movie,simply because I've had my share at poking fun of chop-socky flicks,and also know how to appreciate them as action movies.If my Dad or anyone around his age were to see this however,I think Oedekerk just made himself one of the most hated film-makers among them.

Which is why I love it^^.

The Chosen One (Steve Oedekerk) was attacked by the mysterious Evil Council. They killed his parents but he already had kung fu powers even as a baby. He managed to escape and raised by rodents. His powers continue to grow as he fends off his tormentors. He has a thing on his tongue that he calls Tonguey.

The silly voice dubbing is funny for awhile but it gets repetitive. The same goes for the silly ridiculous fighting. The use of old kung fu movies also wears thin. There are some good comedy but all of it just feels repetitive. This genre parody has some cult appeal but it's limited in the broader audience.

The first time i heard of Steve Odekerk was when I first saw the movie "Thumb Wars" on UPN, I found it to be so stupid that it was hilarious. After I saw the movie I quickly went out and bought all six in the series and loved everyone, now the humor in these movies is the stupid off the wall type that I love. Now Kung Pow is the same way and has the most random unexplainable humor that I have seen in a movie. Now I personally love this kind of humor but not everyone does, so I would say if you saw any of his other movies like Ace or Juwanna man these are more "normal" movies and aren't good to go by. But if you have seen the thumb movies or just love weird humor you will love this movie, I loved but that doesn't mean you will, so my advice is if you don't like stupid comedy don't watch this but if you like that kind of stuff you should check it out.

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.

Whew! This piece of crap is so lame and stale it makes Tom Green look like Woody Allen. It has one joke, and it repeats it over and over and over and over... you get the idea. Worse, it doesn't even do the joke very well. Speaking of Woody Allen, his "What's Up Tiger Lily?" from 1967 or so was the first movie to dub joke English dialogue onto an entire actual Oriental (Japanese in that case) movie. It was fresh, outrageous, and funny then. It's not so outrageous now, but it's still fresh and funny. "Kung Pow, Fists of Crap" is just the opposite. And, it's rather mean spirited and dreary. As a whole, it is a shabby exercise in someone not really knowing when he isn't being entertaining anymore, and yet still managing to get a bunch of money to put that stale garbage on the screen.

There are only two ways to master the world. One is through Kung Fu. There are only two ways of becoming a Kung Fu master: by doing the work, or by dedicated watching of certain movies.

This is no relaxing work in general, my little crickets, and this movie may need some guidance from someone trained in the inner art. Take my word for it that hidden beneath some repetitious, dumb, childish, cardboard humor this movie contains the final secrets for those waiting to get through the eleventh portal.

Naturally, you cannot watch this in its English translation, rather you need to see it in the original language, actually several languages. But be careful; one character is there to throw you off and is obfuscating in glossolalia.

Thanks go to Quenten Tarantino. His uncredited efforts to bring this to the masses could result in a massive shift toward enlightenment.

Also, the tongue-works rocked!

Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.

IMDB asks "would you like to comment on this film" whenever you rate it. While I am not sure that I would actually *like* to comment on this film, I feel compelled to comment on it.

I like to think of myself as a pretty smart guy with pretty decent taste. You know, the kind of person who is happy to sit down and watch a high quality foreign film with a glass of port. In general, I despise mindless comedy. Oh, mind you, I like smart comedy - like, say, Monty Python or Oscar Wilde.

Then I saw "Kung Pow" and just about burst a lung laughing. I don't know if it was the hilariously stupid dialogue of Master Betty, or the heroine's constant "wee-ooo wee-ooo" sobs, but something about this film had me on the verge of tears from laughing several times.

While this is not a film that will impress your educated friends, it is a great "sit around with your beer swilling pals and laugh until you barf" kind of film. Better still, the lines and, well, sounds from the film will stay with you and become fun little in jokes (much like the more intelligent dialogue from, say, "This is Spinal Tap" or "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"). For example (and this will make no sense until you've seen it), my friends and I sit around still going "Birdie... birdie... birdie..."

There is no logical reason why this film should be so much fun, but, for me at least, it really was. (7 out of 10)

I laughed so hard I could hardly breathe. This is one of the funniest films I have ever seen.

The Screen-It Our Take reviewer doesn't like "silly" humor. I do. My most common comments while watching: "That's SO STUPID!!" (when I could catch a breath from laughing) and "What was THAT??"

There are no swear words, no realistic violence, and no sex scenes. It's just FUN!! My 13-year-old son & I rented it and watched it twice in one week. It was even funnier the second time.

My husband hated it. He thought it was the most "un-funny" film he'd ever seen.

You either love it or hate it.

Kung Pow: Enter the Fist was a long time coming. Parodies of kung fu movies are not unheard of when done in small bits,

but what I'd never seen before was an entire movie done as a spoof of your typical kung fu movie; complete with the horrible voice overs and simple plot.

I'd say this movie was a success.

It was funny, innovative, and impressive.

I could tell from the movie that they were using actual footage from a real movie with obviously new voice overs and a few new actors. But that is just how good the movie was done that I wasn't completely sure.

I'd say that it was very well done.

I was wondering every single time when it is going to finish and have to bring myself to fast forward a movie for the very first time just to get it over with and done for.

As a Chinese myself, I don't find the comedy that funny. Not that I am discouraging Hollywood from spoofing Asian movies, but at least they could have done it far better. Even amateurs could have done better, this more like reminds me of the orientation I had to go through while in university, when we were required to come up with a skit, which we ultimately made it to look totally silly that wins laughter not for its content but for the way it was done.

I first saw Kung-Pow on DVD with friends who had seen it in the theater and loved it. But they said that people had been walking out of the theater, lots of people. Despite this, I still watched. Everyone around me knew the jokes, and knew when to laugh. I quickly picked up on Oedekerk's sense of humor in this movie, and I ended up loving the movie. If it hadn't been for my friends, I could easily see myself hating this movie too.

There are so many things that seem like mistakes, but are done *on purpose* by Oedekirk. If it looks like a mistake, it's probably a joke. After all, it is a spoof type movie.

One reviewer's headline says "You'll Either Love It Or Hate It" I did both of those in two viewings! The first time I loved this. On the second viewing, I hated it....and gave it away. Oh well, at least I got a lot of laughs out of it one time. So.....I guess you could say this definitely a one-look film, perhaps just out of curiosity since it is different. It's simply a spoof - an outrageous one at that - on these wild Hong Kong martial arts films that have become popular in recent years.

Babies kung-fu fighting?? Tongues in people's mouthing fighting? Animals flying in the air doing drop kicks? Horrible (on purpose) dubbing in which the voices don't match the person saying them? Bad voices, too! A dog that barks but you don't hear him until 5 seconds later? Yup, that and a whole lot more - many funny things, many incredibly stupid things - that added up to a fun viewing experience the first time but too stupid to watch again.

Having an absurd sense of humor is a must. This is all tongue-in-cheek (well, most of the time.)

Haven`t seen the full movie as the first 10 mins are so bad. Still if your on a desert island somewhere or on top of the mountain and this is the only movie in exsistance.

Might be worth a watch, but there are more movies thankfully.

Since this movie was released on DVD, I have made it a personal mission to watch it at least once a year. I generally end up watching it more than that, usually 3-4 times. I estimate I've seen it well over fifty times at this point, and every single watch is a glorious experience. I unapolagetically adore this movie. It never fails to make me laugh, even though I know all the jokes, and I live for the days where I get to watch it with somebody who hasn't seen it before.

Since 2002 I've graduated high school, college, and university. I have a degree in Design for Digital Media, and over the years I've had the luxury of time and education to pick apart every single scene, flaws and all.

This movie has several technical flaws (the most egregious of which is the scene where Wimp Lo challenges the Chosen One in the training yard, and Chosen's head is pasted onto Jimmy's body extremely poorly) and the CGI baby and cow did NOT age well but, despite that, it brings me no end of joy whenever I see it. The only real gripe I have that doesn't come down to "it was made 20 years ago, of course some of the VFX suck" is that your hair and nails don't keep growing after you die, that's just an artefact of your flesh drying out and contracting a little, making your hair and nails appear slightly longer.

I have even seen the undubbed version, warts and all, and some of the dubbing is so cleverly done from a technical standpoint that it makes the final cut so much funnier to know what they're actually saying (my favourite example of this is where he's calmly telling Ling "I implore you to reconsider." but in the undubbed cut he's yelling "I'M SOMEBODY'S MOMMY!"

The thing that really pleases me, though, is that to this day I'm still noticing little things that Oedekerk put in this movie, like the pringles behind Chosen in the "That's a lot of nuts!!" scene, which I only noticed for the first time a couple years ago. Seeing all these little things, and noticing when the dubbing is cleverly related to the script "But! Isn't Betty a woman's name?/But! Isn't Trouble a family game?", makes me realise just how much of a labour of love this movie was for Oedekerk to create.

Over the years I've seen so many people both criticise and laud this movie for its "silliness", but the truth is that the creative decisions it took to MAKE that silliness really betrays the secret at the heart of it all: This movie is astonishingly clever. It's written, performed, and directed by a strikingly intelligent man with a childish love of filmmaking that takes me back to my youth, where I'd set up a low resolution camera and make silly videos with my siblings. I can just feel the passion that went into this movie in the memory of my younger self doing just the same, and I honestly can't see myself ever getting tired of that.

My love of this movie genuinely grows with its--and my--age, and I look forward to many more wonderful years of laughter. Thanks, Steve!

-KC

The first time I saw this movie I was sort of stunned. It didn't really sink in while I was watching it. Sure, I laughed here and there but overall I wouldn't give it a very good score. However, I do know that over the years there have been a few comedies that I didn't find funny the first time I saw them. I remember seeing The Life of Brian in the theater and I was not impressed. A few years later my friends and I saw it again in a 2nd run theater and I laughed my a$$ off.

This movie is something like that. I have watched it three of four times, each time finding it funnier than the last. I just read a review someone wrote about the girl love interest, and how she's constantly saying "wee ooh wee yea wee oh oh wee" or something like that. Just reading that brought tears to my eyes and made me start laughing again. I have decided to watch this movie again tonight. Lucky for me I own it as part of my video collection. I can't wait to see it again tonight.

If you get a chance to see this movie, and you love stupid comedies, please see it. If you REALLY love stupid movies you might want to bring a change of underwear with you.

I just saw Kung Pow and I must say that I'm very disappointed. I first got my eyes opened for Steve Odekerks work when I saw The Thumb Wars. This was a excellent work with the right kind of parody-humour for my taste.

Even though I had small expectations about Kung Pow after seeing the trailer I thought I'd give it a try... it would at least be fun to see the man behind my favorite thumbs.

Since a lot of scenes in the movie is borrowed from an old kung-fu movie most of this movie is a simple "make funny voices to silent movies humour" The kind of thing that one did when seeing Fong Say Yuk the first time without subtitles. Great fun in the living-room for a small "be there" group of people. But on the big screen? Very dull.

I smiled 3 or 4 times watching this movie but I can't call it comedy. Sure. Steve has some great faces and the movie has some really good blue-screen jobs. I found myself trying to see when there was original actors and when there were new ones. A great job some of the time but the rest of the movie was really bad in my opinion. maybe I'd liked it more if I had watched with some friends and being doomsday drunk at the same time. But then anything would be funny.

Summary: I like some of Odekerks humour. I like some crazy-wire-superhero-kung-fu-movies like Iron Monkey and such.. but Kung Pow had none of this. just pointless "silly talk".

THUMBS down =( Better luck next time. 1 out of 10.