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Kung Pow: Enter the Fist (2002)

January. 25,2002
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6.2
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PG-13
| Action Comedy
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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.

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Matrixiole
2002/01/25

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

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FuzzyTagz
2002/01/26

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

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Fairaher
2002/01/27

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

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ChanFamous
2002/01/28

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

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Michael_Kennedy
2002/01/29

Well I went into this knowing nothing. The opening scene I found to be rather funny. And from then on I laughed once more. The movie is inane. The humor is aimed at towards people below the age of 5 and it is one of the most stupid, unfunny and boring films I have ever seen in my life. The humor consists of silly voices, silly faces and terrible dubbing and that is really about it. It is 1 hour and 21 minutes long and halfway through I had to stop, it is really boring. The film is suppose to be funny, I think. I'm not really sure. There are films that are both stupid and funny. Monty Python and the holy grail does this perfectly, but Monty python and the holy grail is stupid and intelligent. This is stupid and stupid. This really is a pile of crap. The most suicide inducing scenes are when really terrible music starts playing during fight scenes. I really hate this film. It is abysmal.

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SnoopyStyle
2002/01/30

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.

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jimyt666
2002/01/31

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.

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keesnaylon
2002/02/01

5.9?!? This hardly feels like a proper rating in my opinion, this movie was well made, and took as long as lord of the rings to make, I have NEVER in my entire life laughed as hard at a movie as I did this (with maybe the exception of Borat), This movie can be watched over and over again, with no more than 30 second having been passed without a joke being said. The reason the rating is so low is because 45% of users rated this movie as a "10/10", which actually get's rejected by this site, so if you agree, please vote this a 9, and write a review, this is easily my favorite movie of all time, sit down, open a bag of popcorn, and get ready for 2 hours of the funniest kung fu you've ever seen (then come back and rate this a 9).

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