Stars: Steve Oedekerk, Leo Lee, Lung Fei

Director: Steve Oedekerk

Summary: Oedekerk 'The Chosen One' sets out to avenge his family's death and he goes in search of Master Pain aka 'Betty'... Martial arts spoof.

Director Steve Oedekerk (ACE VENTURA: WHEN NATURE CALLS) wrote, produced, and stars in this this goofy spoof of martial arts movies, which he created by re-dubbing and digitally inserting himself into a 1976 Kung Fu film called TIGER AND CRANE FIST. Oedekerk plays The Chosen One (so named because of his magic tongue) who grows up in the wild after his family is murdered by the evil Master Pain--who later changes his name to Betty. Hunted and attacked continuously, The Chosen One eventually finds shelter at the Crane School, where he falls in love with a squealing maiden (Jennifer Tung) and figures out how to avenge his parents' death. He also encounters a woman with a very unusual breast, French aliens, an animated spirit father styled after THE LION KING, a martial arts-expert cow, and other digitally animated wonders. Somehow Oedekerk manages to wring a lot more funny moments out of the concept than one might think possible, and thanks to amazingly inventive editing and a gleefully juvenile sense of humor, the film never runs out of steam.

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A shamelessly low-brow parody, Kung Pow: Enter the Fistis a scrambling of footage from the 1975 Hong Kong martial arts epic Tiger &Crane Fistwith new material shot by director Steve Oedekerk (Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls) in which he doubles for original star Jimmy Wang Yu.

Following the style set by Woody Allen in What's Up Tiger Lily?, Oedekerk also dubs all the voices, rendering the basic revenge story even more formulaic and ridiculous. The villain turns out to be working for flying saucers manned by French aliens (!) and the Chosen One hero has an odd habit of using animals as weapons (gopher nunchakas, squirrel padding) and, in the stand-out scene, doing a full-on Matrix/Crouching Tigerbattle with an extremely agile killer cow.

A lot of the film is just dumb, but it still manages to beat laughs out of you with its relentless goofiness. Though it might seem an ego trip for Oedekerk, he is actually a likeable leading man, pulling funny faces and deliberately dubbing even his own voice badly.

On the DVD:Kung Pow: Enter the Fiston disc includes an animated draft of the kung fu cow scene, with special effects elements shown pre-mixing. There are also several deleted sequences and a director's cut of one extended fight scene. --Kim Newman

Aspect Ratio:	2.35 Wide Screen, 16:9 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	3 Commentaries, 14 Deleted Scenes, 3 Visual Effects Sequences, 7 Alternate Dialogue Scenes
Year:	2002
Release Date:	January 20, 2003
Runtime:	78 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	23298 D V D
Keywords:	Action, Comedy, General, Fist, Wide, Screen, Enter, Pow, Adventure, Kung
Genre:	Action/Adventure