Rotten
Naturally, much fun is made of the poorly synchronized dialogue inherent in kung fu flicks, but the gag pales with repetition, especially since Billy Crystal and Robin Williams did it better years ago.
Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
If you've got an ass...he'll kick it!
2002 · 1h 21m · PG-13
Action, Comedy
Directed by
Steve Oedekerk
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Steve Oedekerk Director
- Yu Wang as "The Chosen One"
- Chen Hui-Lou as "Master Tang"
- Tad Horino as "Chew Fat Lip"
- Lau Ga-Yung as "Wimp Lo"
- Jennifer Tung as Whoa
- Steve Oedekerk as The Chosen One
- Ming Lo as Father
- Peggy Lu as Mother
- Lau Kar-Leung as Wimp Lo (archive footage)
- Simon Rhee as Young Master Pain's Henchman
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
13%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Not since Freddy Got Fingered has a major release been so painful to sit through.
Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune
Rotten
A processed comedy chop suey.
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
Rotten
Kung Pow is Oedekerk's realization of his childhood dream to be in a martial-arts flick, and proves that sometimes the dreams of youth should remain just that.
Melanie McFarland, Seattle Times
Rotten
Full of flatulence jokes and mild sexual references, Kung Pow! is the kind of movie that's critic-proof, simply because it aims so low.
Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle
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