If it falls short of doing for chopsocky cinema what "Airplane!" did for the formerly friendly skies, neither is Steve Oedekerk's "Kung Pow Enter the Fist" the unwatchable embarrassment Fox clearly ...

"Kung Pow: Enter the Fist" is a movie within a movie, created to spoof the martial-arts genre. Writer/director Steve Oedekerk uses contemporary characters and splices them into a 1970s kung-fu film, ...

KUNG POW! ENTER THE FIST: Action spoof. Starring Steve Oedekerk. Directed and written by Steve Oedekerk. (PG-13. 81 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) Raised by rodents, with no true home, a man wanders ...

Twenty years ago, Steve Oedekerk released a parody of Kung fu cinema that forever warped my humor and elevated my appreciation for martial arts movies. Kung Pow! Enter The Fist dominated the ...

An undeniably punchy title, “Kung Pow: Enter the Fist” may prove a self-administered knockout blow for Steve Oedekerk, who misjudges the cleverness and stamina of his own one-man show. Failing himself ...

In 1966, Woody Allen launched his filmmaking career by taking a cut-rate, straight-faced 1964 Japanese James Bond knockoff called Key of Keys, erasing the sound and music tracks, replacing it with his ...

Sometimes, and it is rare, sometimes a DVD comes along that manages to kick the feature film contained on it up a couple notches. Such is the case with Kung Pow! Enter The Fist, a film poorly reviewed ...

Steve Oedekerk wrote ”Patch Adams” and ”Nutty Professor II: The Klumps.” He wrote and directed ”Ace Ventura 2” and ”Nothing to Lose.” His audience does not prize subtlety; it prefers talking butt ...

He is more flexible than any other fighter. He knows techniques that keep him spinning in the air for minutes at a time and defeats his opponents one after another. He's traversed miles (sometimes ...