So, what the hell I thought, it can be a "cheat week" in the descent into fine, fine cinema.
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist is a film that was released in 2002. It looks like it has the Aesthetic of 1980s b-grade films, and it plays this to its advantage. As an outlandish parody to martial arts films, Kung Pow: Enter the Fist leaves reason, logic, and Earth-like physics at its door.
The film starts with a birth of a baby. The baby almost dies through an assassination attempt, a tumble down an endless mountain (or so it seems), and all of a sudden, the baby is an adult man.
An adult man known as "The Chosen One", who is out to avenge the attempted on his own life.
Another feature of this film is that it is entirely voiced by one man. He just puts on different, remotely distinct, and passable accents to play every role. The film is terrible from a cinematic, plot, and dramatic standpoint, but it does not itself at all seriously.
This is evident from the cover art, the title, and the fact that people (@ursa) still want to watch and re-watch this film today.
There's crazy stunts (some of which I'm sure are even real) - Matrix bullet-time sequence rip-offs, and outlandish martial weapons such as nun-chucks made from small rodents.
This film is a comedy sketch in its nature, and has some genuinely side-bursting one liners. If you don't respect martial arts films (I'm not really one for seeing a single man round-house kick his way through a packed market) - you will enjoy
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist.
If you do respect martial arts films and you've watched
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist, what did you think? I'd love to know!