Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
Directed by Steve Oedekerk
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, weaving the new and old together. As the main character, The Chosen One, Oedekerk sets off to avenge the deaths of his parents at the hands of kung-fu legend Master Pain. Along the way he encounters some strange characters.
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- AGENTROCKSTARJanuary 31, 2026Classic comedy. A keeper. Repeat watch ever so often.
- Marcelo ScatenaJanuary 21, 2026I'm coming I'm coming! That's a lot of nuts! My name is Betty!
- YhoozernameDecember 4, 2024THAT'S A LOT OF NUTS
- Dale LeerDecember 21, 2025Kung Pow: Enter the Fist is the rare film that commits so fully to being so terrible that it loops back around into a kind of deranged brilliance. The purposefully atrocious dubbing of completely unhinged phrases and out of context phrases feels like it was recorded on an Motorola razer while the superimposed faces hover over the original footage like it was done by a guy hired from the website Fiver. The whole movie is stitched together with such reckless disregard for continuity that it becomes its own form of genius. By the time a villain "Master Pain aka Betty" proudly announces, “I am a great magician... your clothes are red,” you realize the film isn’t trying to make sense; it’s trying to see how far it can push you before you start questioning your own grip on reality. Yet somehow, against all odds, it’s glorious a masterpiece of deliberate incompetence that somehow works far better than it has any right to.
- ZombieCortezApril 17, 2025ENTER THE FIST IRON
- Newton ServerJanuary 19, 2026Gr8 movie
- MacatackaDecember 31, 2025Movie seems not to be historically accurate. Great movie to watch when hungover.
- RichardOctober 5, 2025I didn’t know what I was getting into when I popped that disc into the player. No trailers, no expectations, just a goofy title and a vague promise of martial arts mayhem. What I got was something completely unhinged, brilliantly stupid and oddly unforgettable. Oedekerk’s style was my kind of chaos: fearless, absurd and totally self-aware. That DVD didn’t just introduce me to a film, it introduced me to a filmmaker who clearly didn’t care about playing it safe and thank god for that. I remember thinking, “Who is this guy?” and immediately wanting to see more of whatever he touched.
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist Trivia
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist was released on January 25, 2002.
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist was directed by Steve Oedekerk.
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist has a runtime of 81m.
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist was produced by Tom Koranda, Steve Oedekerk, Paul Marshal.
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, weaving the new and old together. As the main character, The Chosen One, Oedekerk sets off to avenge the deaths of his parents at the hands of kung-fu legend Master Pain. Along the way he encounters some strange characters.
The key characters in Kung Pow: Enter the Fist are The Chosen One (Steve Oedekerk), Master Pain (Betty) (archive footage) (Lung Fei), Young Master Pain (Leo Lee).
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist is rated PG-13.
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist is a Comedy, Action film.
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist has an audience rating of 6.9 out of 10.
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist had a budget of $10M.
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist has made $17M at the box office.