Kung Pow! Enter the Fist
Kung Pow! Enter the Fist is a 2002 American martial arts comedy film that parodies Hong Kong action cinema. Written by, directed by and starring Steve Oedekerk, it uses footage from the 1976 Hong Kong martial arts film Tiger & Crane Fists (also called The Savage Killers) starring and directed by Jimmy Wang Yu, along with new footage shot by Oedekerk, who is also digitally inserted over Wang in many scenes, to create an original, unrelated plot.
Plot
A man, called The Chosen One by the narrator, wanders from town to town to search for the man who killed his family and tried to kill him when he was a baby. In one town, he meets Master Tang, a very ill and slightly deranged sifu, and asks Tang to help him improve his already impressive martial arts ability. Master Tang is skeptical at first, but after seeing The Chosen One's mark (his sentient tongue, which he names Tonguey), he allows him to train at his dojo. The Chosen One is introduced to two other students: Wimp Lo, a young man who was deliberately trained incorrectly as a joke, and Ling, a young woman who has romantic feelings for The Chosen One.
More details
| author | Steve Oedekerk |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Hong Kong |
| director | Steve Oedekerk |
| editor | Paul Marshal |
| genre | action animation comedy |
| keywords | asks someone bo chosen one derange discover eat fight fourth wall france french gift golden eagle holstein cow holstein friesian cattle inspire kill knock out learn lion lion king mother ship night out old friends one take post-credits scene sifu supernatural power the chosen one the lion king train wound young man young woman |
| musicBy | Robert Folk |
| producer | Paul Marshal Steve Oedekerk Tom Koranda |
| productionCompany | O Entertainment |
| publisher | 20th Century Fox |
| theme | action comedy kung fu martial arts parody slapstick |