"Kung Pow: Enter the Fist" has a marvelous premise but fails completely due to some fundamental misunderstandings of the
ways of comedy. The idea is that Steve Oedekerk got a hold of a long-forgotten 1976 martial-arts film called "Tiger & Crane Fists." He redubbed the dialogue, shot some new scenes, and digitally inserted himself into the action, thus creating a movie that is a parody of karate flicks in general, and a "Mystery Science Theater"-style mocking of this one specifically. The problem is that I only know all this because I read the press kit. The movie itself does not make it clear, and how is the audience supposed to laugh along with your concept if it doesn't know what the concept is?
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