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Kung Pow! Enter the Fist is a 2002 comedy film. Written, directed and starring Steve Oedekerk, it uses and manipulates footage from the 1977 Hong Kong martial arts movie Tiger and Crane Fist (also known as "Savage Killers"), along with new footage shot by Oedekerk, to create an original, unrelated plot much like Woody Allen's movie What's Up, Tiger Lily?
, which employs a similar technique of overdubbing an obscure Asian movie to comedic effect. It also draws resemblance to how Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
borrows from films noir.

For example, in many scenes Jimmy Wang Yu, the lead actor in Tiger and Crane Fist was replaced by Oedekerk via post-production chroma key techniques. Oedekerk also redubbed all of the original cast's voices himself. The new footage shot for Kung Pow! was also overdubbed by Oedekerk.

Plot

Steve Oedekerk stars as "The Chosen One". He is marked by the sign of the Chosen One, which is the fact that his tongue has a small face, including mouth and its own small tongue, and emits high-pitched screaming from time to time. The Chosen One calls his tongue "Tongue-y".

When he was a baby, the mysterious Evil Council had Master Pain kill Chosen One's parents. However, Master Pain was not able to fulfill his task to kill the Chosen One because, even as an infant, the Chosen One had powerful martial arts skills and was able to defend himself in an action-packed scene with lots of special effects.

Years later, the Chosen One then devotes his life to finding and seeking revenge on Master Pain (now named "Betty") and discovering the true identity of the Evil Council.

Highlights

One of the oft-cited moments of the film is when the protagonist fights Master Pain's cow, Moo Nyu, which is computer rendered for the movie. This is the only bullet-time effect in the film and a cliched parody of The Matrix. The 3D animation quality is, perhaps intentionally, quite poor and unrealistic in contrast to the rest of the film; however, the budget of this film was very low in comparison with blockbuster films. Like many comedic movies, the credits are accompanied with bloopers, along with demonstrations of how Steve Oedekerk was digitally inserted into the original movie.

Many obvious name brands are distributed throughout the film, both in usual product placement form or clearly shown (especially Taco Bell). For example, during a sequence when Master Pain is showing his strength, a "Hooters" sign is hanging above one of the doorways.

Cast

Original actors

Jimmy Wang Yu
- "The Chosen One" (mostly replaced by Oedekerk)
Hui Lou Chen - "Master Tang"
Tad Horino
- "Chew Fat Lip"
Chia Yung Liu - "Wimp Lo"
Fei Lung - "Master Pain"
Ling Ling Tse - "Ling"

Voiced over characters

All character voices by Steve Oedekerk for the exception of "Whoa".

DVD special features

Deleted scenes
Directors commentary
Alternate audio tracks, including the "What they are really saying" track, which includes the original Chinese and the speech Oedekerk uses to parody the bad dubbing in old kung-fu movies
”Making of” featurette
Theatrical trailer
Tongue-y featurette

Sequels

Steve Oedekerk has said that two sequels are planned, and they are currently expected to be done with help from 20th Century Fox.

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