Kung Pow: Enter the Fist

Kung Pow: Enter the Fist — 8

Alright, now I’m sure everyone knows about Mystery Science theatre 3000, or MTST3K. This movie is an almost similar concept, except for the fact that they took an old Kung-fu movie and basically edited the crap out of it. They added in scenes, they changed the order of them, they redubbed over the movie. Genius really. It’s just a little hard to understand what was done to the original movie because I never saw it.

Now the voice-overs were done in the traditional kung-fu style. Mouth moving, but the words do not sync up at all. It’s not even really syncing, it’s that they didn’t take the time to either re-film for English, or take the time to edit the movie to make it look like they were speaking the English language. But it works. If you have ever seen any kung-fu movie in English, then chance are you know what I am talking about.

I love the style of making fun of movies in this manner. I don’t know what it is, but maybe it was actually growing up on MST3K, maybe it is my crazy insane love for one-liners. I don’t know but I love these types of movies.

Now Steve Oedekerk is also responsible for the thumb movies. I hated those. I watched the star wars ones and I never even got through the first hour before I walked away. But his scene of humor is well placed and as long as you have an open mind going into this then you will be very satisfied.

Of course there are some parts where all you can do is slap your palm on your forehead and think, why the hell did he do that? Well no one really knows, maybe it was filler, maybe it was just something he thought was funny, maybe his funny juices wore out. This only happens a few times, but its friggen awesome when it does.

All in all if you like MST3K or just making fun of movies, then this is defiantly for you. If you don’t like MST3K then stop reading my blog and go kill yourself.

Base Score = 6
+1 for remaking an old Kung-fu movie in a new way
+1 for Toungy
-1 for a few parts that were stupid
+1 for an awesome, unexpected ending.
=8/10

Last updated: 2010-01-12 01:49:56 by Tolll