Kung Pow: Enter the Fist (2002)

Lack of good storyline.

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

If you are looking for excellence, you are not going to like this movie! But you are looking for laughs strictly without having to turn your brain on, this movie is just for you! Kung Pow oddly enough has likable characters, funny voice acting & dumb but somehow great jokes! Whole idea of this movie was to make it dumb on purpose but still laughable. It's not like Date Movie, Scary Movie or Jack & Jill where those movies are just bad comedies with bad jokes with little effort put into them. The creator put his heart into this and it came out golden! And to add to this great review, I saw this as a kid, found it funny! I recently saw this and I found it much funnier than those 15 years ago! Usually as adults, we don't find those same things as good as it was as a child but this is one of the few times I'd enjoyed something more in my 20's! GREAT JOB, STEVE!!

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.

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.

This one gets a 3 because it doesn't sink as low as Friedberg and Seltzer's rubbish; at least it keeps its nose above the swamp.Anyway, what's the formula here? Redubbing an old kung fu film, superimposing the image of the lead actors in some scenes, and adding some crude CGI parts and other inanities. That is all. This COULD work, but it doesn't: the script is bland and adds pretty much nothing interesting to what you'd expect from a kung fu spoof, the CGI bits redefine "crude", and the jokes are... Look, ANY 15 year old kid could have written jokes funnier than these. The comedy in this film is unbelievable -- they are rarely tasteless, but most of them are utterly stupid, and stupid in a bad way. I see people here saying it's so stupid it's good, and it's actually genius and whatnot, but those are people who never watched "Airplane!"; if you watch that one, you'll realise that sometimes stupidity and genius walk hand in hand. But that is not the case here: this is just a writer thinking that the stupider, the better. There is a very clear difference in approach.Once in a while you'll bump into a good joke; say, I actually laughed about every 15 minutes in average. Unfortunately, every good joke is either eventually spoiled as well, and they sink under the weight of everything else. And the redubbing? Eventually, all it does is get on your nerves: it's just a guy whining in falsetto, anyway.I believe the extraordinarily low bits are the cow fight (spoofing "Matrix"? I know this was made in 2002, but come on!), the "Lion King" spoof (for real? Didn't the Simpsons do it way better about 8 years before??), all the bits with "Tonguey", the baby fight and many other smaller moments. Good bits include the dog with a SEVERE problem of audio/video synchronisation (a very clever target of spoofing), the flashbacks in which nothing is added to what has already been said (until it turns into a fart joke), the parody of the "dramatic zoom in" effect of Japanese films (it's slightly overdone but still works) and the nut salesman with a very loud voice ("THAT'S A LOT OF NUTS!!" That was unexpected and genuinely funny). But overall, I'd say skip this, it's not worthwhile. If you want an example of what GOOD film spoofing is, watch "Airplane!" and the "Naked Gun" films, and if you want a truly excellent comedy kung fu film, with creative storytelling, great CG effects and smart comedy, watch "Kung Fu Hustle"; skip this garbage and go straight for the real thing.