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NUMBERS
Box Office: $15,943,478
VHS Rentals: $1,570,000
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CONSENSUS
A short sketch's worth of jokes stretched into a full-length feature.
CAST & CREW
Steve Oedekerk, Jennifer Tung, Tad Horino
Directed by Steve Oedekerk
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SYNOPSIS
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. more...
MPAA RATING
PG-13, comic violence, crude and sexual humor
RUNTIME
81 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Jan 25, 2002
Video: Jul 23, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
20th Century Fox
GENRE
Comedies, Martial Arts, Spoof, Kung Fu
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Kung Pow! Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
POSTERS
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
NEWS ARTICLES
SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "The dose is strong and funny, for the first 15 minutes anyway; after that, the potency wanes dramatically."
-- Ross Anthony, HOLLYWOOD REPORT CARD
"It's not that Kung Pow isn't funny some of the time -- it just isn't any funnier than bad martial arts movies are all by themselves, without all Oedekerk's impish augmentation."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
 "I'd be lying if I said my ribcage didn't ache by the end of Kung Pow."
-- Bill Chambers, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"MST3K gone Kung Fooey, Kung Pow! makes you chuckle for a bit, but leaves you hungry an hour later."
-- Rose 'Bams' Cooper, 3BLACKCHICKS REVIEW
"This is the type of movie best enjoyed by frat boys and college kids while sucking on the bong and downing one alcoholic beverage after another."
-- Matt Easterbrook, MATT'S MOVIE REVIEWS
"Must be seen to be believed."
-- Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE
"The concept behind Kung Pow: Enter the Fist is hilarious. It’s too bad nothing else is."
-- Forrest Hartman, RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL
"I basically went in expecting garbage, but color me surprised when it actually turned out to be quite funny!"
-- JoBlo, JOBLO'S MOVIE EMPORIUM
"Did no one on the set have a sense of humor, or did they not have the nerve to speak up?"
-- Jim Lane, SACRAMENTO NEWS & REVIEW
"An incredibly narrow in-joke targeted to the tiniest segment of an already obscure demographic."
-- Wade Major, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
"I haven't seen such self-amused trash since Freddy Got Fingered."
-- John R. McEwen, FILM QUIPS ONLINE
"As deadly to brain cells as huffing paint thinner, but more delightful!"
-- Brian Mckay, EFILMCRITIC.COM
"Kung Pow seems like some futile concoction that was developed hastily after Oedekerk and his fellow moviemakers got through crashing a college keg party."
-- Frank Ochieng, MOVIE EYE
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"It’s not a bad premise, just a bad movie."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"We can't accuse Kung Pow for misfiring, since it is exactly what it wants to be: an atrociously, mind-numbingly, indescribably bad movie. Unfortunately, we'd prefer a simple misfire."
-- Blake French, FILMCRITIC.COM
"The film is so bad it doesn't improve upon the experience of staring at a blank screen."
-- David Grove, FILM THREAT
"The concept is a hoot. The trailer is a riot. The movie is a dud."
-- Louis B. Hobson, JAM! MOVIES
"Oedekerk mugs mercilessly, and the genuinely funny jokes are few and far between."
-- Andy Klein, NEW TIMES
"...if it had been only half-an-hour long or a TV special, the humor would have been fast and furious-- at ninety minutes, it drags."
-- Anthony Leong, MEDIACIRCUS
"Mocking kung fu pictures when they were a staple of exploitation theater programming was witty. Mocking them now is an exercise in pointlessness."
-- Maitland McDonagh, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"Kung Pow is Oedekerk's realization of his childhood dream to be in a martial-arts flick, and proves that sometimes the dreams of youth should remain just that."
-- Melanie McFarland, SEATTLE TIMES
"The laughs are as rare as snake foo yung."
-- Roger Moore, ORLANDO SENTINEL
"Steve Oedekerk is, alas, no Woody Allen."
-- David Perry, CINEMA-SCENE.COM
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ROTTEN 0%
Avg. Rating: 2.6/10 |
"This is amusing for about three minutes."
-- James Berardinelli, JAMES BERARDINELLI'S REELVIEWS
"Not since Freddy Got Fingered has a major release been so painful to sit through."
-- Robert K. Elder, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"An inept, tedious spoof of '70s kung fu pictures, it contains almost enough chuckles for a three-minute sketch, and no more."
-- Jonathan Foreman, NEW YORK POST
"To imagine the life of Harry Potter as a martial arts adventure told by a lobotomized Woody Allen is to have some idea of the fate that lies in store for moviegoers lured to the mediocrity that is Kung Pow: Enter the Fist."
-- Lawrence Van Gelder, NEW YORK TIMES
"Full of flatulence jokes and mild sexual references, Kung Pow! is the kind of movie that's critic-proof, simply because it aims so low."
-- Edward Guthmann, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"As an entertainment destination for the general public, Kung Pow sets a new benchmark for lameness."
-- Tom Maurstad, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"A processed comedy chop suey."
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"Hopelessly inane, humorless and under-inspired."
-- Kevin Thomas, LOS ANGELES TIMES
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-- ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
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"The movie's plot is almost entirely witless and inane, carrying every gag two or three times beyond its limit to sustain a laugh."
-- John J. Puccio, DVDTOWN.COM
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