Kung Pow! Enter the Fist is a comedy film that parodies Hong Kong action cinema. Written, directed by and starring Steve Oedekerk, it uses and manipulates footage from the 1977 Hong Kong martial arts movie Tiger and Crane Fist (a.k.a. Savage Killers), along with new footage shot by Oedekerk, to create an original, unrelated plot much like the Kung Faux TV series and Woody Allen's film What's Up, Tiger Lily?, which employs a similar technique of overdubbing an obscure Asian movie to comedic effect.
In many scenes Jimmy Wang Yu, the lead actor in Tiger and Crane Fist, was replaced by Oedekerk via post-production chroma key techniques. Oedekerk also redubbed all of the original cast's voices himself, inventing a different silly voice for every character. The new footage shot for Kung Pow! was also overdubbed by Oedekerk. It is rated PG-13 for "Comic violence, crude and sexual humor" by the MPAA.
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, 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, one of which is a cow trained in the martial arts. Written by kem
