Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
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.
Critics Sentiment
The Chosen One fights Moo Nieu the martial arts cow
The Chosen One finds his friends severely injured by Betty
The film drops significantly from the beloved cow fight sequence to the darker town massacre aftermath, losing much of its comedic momentum.
Kung Pow divides audiences between those who find its absurd humor brilliant and those who think it's too stupid to sustain feature length. The film peaks with its most memorable absurd moments like the cow fight and Ling's crying, but struggles when it tries to maintain dramatic stakes. Most reviewers acknowledge it as cult classic material that works best for viewers in the right mindset for intentionally dumb comedy.
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Steve Oedekerk
The Chosen One
Lung Fei
Master Pain (Betty) (archive footage)
Leo Lee
Young Master Pain
Hsieh Ling-ling
Ling (archive footage)
Lau Kar-Wing
Wimp Lo (archive footage)
Lin Yan
Dying Ling
Chen Hui-Lou
Master Tang (archive footage)
Jennifer Tung
Whoa
Ming Lo
Father
Peggy Lu
Mother
Tad Horino
Chew Fat Lip
Tori Tran
Peasant Woman
Simon Rhee
Young Master Pain's Henchman
Joon Kim
Henchman #2
Philip Tan
Grilled Face Fighter
Nasty Nes
Boom Box Henchman
Chad Stahelski
Masked Fighter
Michael Li
Stick Fighter #1
Jen Sung
Stick Fighter #2
Al Goto
Stick Fighter #3
Crew
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