Review of Kung Pow: Enter the Fist (2002) by B P — 12 Nov 2009

You know I almost hate to say this, because I'm as pretentious as they come when it comes to movies...BUT I remember watching this movie 5-6 years ago and just finding this movie absolutely hilarious.

Maybe it was because I was 15-16 back then, but I still knew what this movie was and I wasn't expecting anything other than a stupid and retarded movie that's not even supposed to be taken seriously.

And this coming from a guy, who in the last couple of years, has realized that the Oedekerk bros are actually really talentless people. I recently saw this movie on Spike tv (I think) for the first time since the last time I saw it all those years ago and I STILL laughed.

It's a very amusing movie, amusing in the sense that you know that the movie is really horrible, yet that's what really makes the film enjoyable. Sort of how Clerks was charming because it was so low budget that it was still superior to Clerks 2 even though Clerks 2 had a bigger budget and a better story, a film does not have to be Academy Award-type quality to be enjoyable.

Sometimes it's fun to just be immature and that's what this film does. And it's funny how 'professional' critics and the audience differ from each other, at least according to flixster.

More than 2/3rds of the people that rated this movie enjoyed it, where as 12% of the pro critics enjoyed it. And I think this is the case where the audience is right, this movie is enjoyable despite the fact that if you really think about it, this movie is really horrid.

But when it comes to movies like Transformes 2, which I'm sure a ton of flixster users enjoyed whereas the critics just panned it. In that case the critics are right, Transformers 2 is just an abomination upon the eyes of god.

Just a terrible piece of filmmaking and everyone who worked on it should be ashamed. Sure it made like a gazillion dollars, but that doesn't justify its existence. I've rambled long enough. Like I said, nobody should really expect an arthouse masterpiece.

It's just a movie that's so bad it's good, to use a worn out cliche.