Thursday, 29 November 2012

Kung Pow : Enter the Fist

















This is going to be a review of one of the best motion pictures of all time. 
But first . . . a taste of marvelous-ness.


Master Betty: I have been called bad before. Many have said I do things that are not correct to do. I don't believe in talk such as this. I am nice man, with happy feelings. All of the time. First, a joke. What do you get when you cross an owl with a bungee cord? [pause] 


Master Betty: My ass. Nyah, haha, haha, haha, ENOUGH. 


[the intermission begins


Master Betty: Go get some snacks, perhaps a carbonated soda!
Ling: I hope they have Icees!
Chosen One: I have chosen the large tub.
Wimp Lo: My nipples look like Milk Duds!
Master Tang: I've got some yellow liquid for your popcorn, and it's non-dairy


As you can see, simply through a minuscule fragment of the entire script and the sophistication of this masterpiece is so clearly depicted. I mean; seriously. 


I can't imagine how Kung Pow has received so much stick considering it is meant to be deliberately bad - and I mean - it's Steve Oedekerk! Thats a free pass to blatant brainlessness.

It hasn't been rated very highly at all on sites like rotten tomatoes and imbd. I have suddenly lost hope in all of the viewers. Like Gah. Are there really only "5/10" stars worth of people out there who actually have a sense of humor? -- Disgrace


The issue here with viewers I think is that the classiness of the humor is questionable. In fact, its pretty bad. And again, I must keep stressing that it is so obviously supposed to be bad in the first place.

If you haven't seen the movie, I insist you do. All of what I'm  saying would make complete sense to you assuming you are in fact a good-natured person with an open sense of humor.

Tiger and Crane Fist was a movie made in Hong Kong and then released in 1976 and starred some apparently not very well-known or publicized actors - considering its minimal hits on google-searches. I reckon the movie did relatively well among the Cantonese-speaking market ; 69% of viewer votes overall - I think that's rather decent keeping in mind the era in which it was made.  Nevertheless, it was still, for some reason, dubbed in English a little bit after it was released ( high demand in English-speaking countries. {?} ) Inevitably, this dubbing had revolutionized to a whole new level of dubbing in 2002.

I think of the point and style of the whole movie pretty ingenious. 

Original visuals from the one released in '76 ( mostly ) + 99% manipulated audio + complete inadequate re-dubbing by Steve Oedekerk + shallow and sometimes distasteful old school humor  = I present to you, Kung Pow ; Enter the Fist ( 2002 ).  I feel the tears of pride emerging already. 

A little visual taste of what it's all about - and trust me; to get a thorough picture you must indeed listen to the audio sometime. 















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