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What
do you get when you take CGI and blue screen technology then mix it with Mystery
Science Theater 3000? You get the movie Kung Pow! Enter the Fist starring Mr.
Steve Oedekerk, who also wrote and directed the film. The film itself is a
hybrid of a mid 70s Kung fu film with people, faces, and products added in along
with an entirely new soundtrack. The creators of the film use the same
technology to add in new people and product placements for Taco Bell, Pringles
and others the same way Hollywood has made John Wayne into a pitchman for Coors.
So you might think that this would make for a kick ass parody of kung fu films,
and you would be right if it only lasted 30 minutes, but instead it goes on for
nearly an hour and a half. It gets to a point where the jokes get real old and
the parodies get real stupid (not that most of the film isn’t stupid to begin
with). But just for the hell of it, I’ll still give you a very brief
description of the plot. Steve
Oedekerk is The Chosen One who was supposed to be killed as a child, but
survived the attack of the evil guy, only his family is killed. Then the Chosen
One grows up while the evil guy changes his name to Betty. The Chosen One seeks
revenge, Betty seeks to kill The Chosen One. Then there are the aliens which are
really French who float around in giant pyramid spaceships while controlling the
council of evil. The Chosen One gets a little help from his friends while
battling with Betty, Moon You the cow (a parody of The
Matrix), and Betty’s
henchmen. Blah, blah, blah. The end. Oh shit, there is also a love story, but I
couldn’t care less. To
be perfectly honest, I’m not a big kung fu film fan to begin with, but I think
the film would have been better off as a half-hour TV show on cable. Making fun
of bad dubbing should only be one joke, not the main basis for a film nor a
movie-long running gag. As you can tell I don’t have a high opinion of the
film. Nonetheless I did get a couple of laughs out of it so I give it two
couches, one for the effort and another for those few laughs.
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