Kung Pow: Enter the Fist (2002) on Netflix
A wanderer called The Chosen One hunts the man who murdered his family. The ailing sifu Master Tang lets him train at his dojo, where he meets Wimp Lo and Ling.
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Plot summary
The Chosen One drifts from town to town, looking for the man who murdered his family and tried to kill him as an infant. In one town he approaches Master Tang, a sifu who is very ill and a little deranged, and asks Tang to help refine skills he already has. Tang has doubts until he sees The Chosen One's mark, a sentient tongue he calls Tonguey, and agrees to take him at his dojo. The other students are Wimp Lo, taught wrong as a joke, and Ling, who is drawn to The Chosen One.
Cast
- Tori Tranas Peasant Woman
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- Ling-Ling Hsiehas Ling (archive footage)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Kung Pow: Enter the Fist (2002)
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- Written by, directed by and starring Steve Oedekerk, the film uses footage from the 1976 Hong Kong martial arts film Tiger & Crane Fists, starring and directed by Jimmy Wang Yu, with Oedekerk digitally inserted over Wang in many scenes to create an original, unrelated plot.
- Oedekerk re-dubbed all of the original cast's voices himself, inventing a different voice for every character; the only exception is the character of "Whoa", who was voiced by her actress, Jennifer Tung.
- In all new scenes, Oedekerk, Tung and the other actors spoke nonsensical lines, which were later re-dubbed with the correct lines from the script, in order to maintain the appearance of a poorly-dubbed foreign language consistent with the rest of the film.
- In a livestream on March 27, 2022, Oedekerk stated that while his original plan was for there to be a Kung Pow trilogy, discussions to make a sequel with 20th Century Studios had not worked out, as no interest was ever shown.
- At the 2002 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards, the film was nominated for Worst Picture and tied with The Master of Disguise for a win for Most Painfully Unfunny Comedy.
