Quarter-Circle + Paaaunch!
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Mar 2006
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Mar 16, 2006, 04:27 AM
Local time: Mar 16, 2006, 08:27 PM
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Yeh okay. Kung Pow, in terms of its jokes and gags, was not funny.
The point of the movie was to make fun of Asian cinema, as well as English dubbing for Asian films. Have you ever seen an English dubbed Jackie Chan movie (his Hong Kong films)?
Based off this concept, Kung Pow was a clever film, mocking all the conventions of an English dubbed Chinese movie: Badly timed lip-syncing (this also applies to the Asian films without English dubbing... the lip-syncing was off!), corny "Killed-my-family-so-I'll-take-revenge" story, stupid English dubbing (anime is a victim of this too) and a female lead who is supposed to be hot, but not. All this plus references to modern pop-culture and society for eg. putting on the "I Like Big Butts" song on and Mushufasa saying "This is CNN.... C N N!!!"
Not only that, technically the film was great. Putting Steve Oederdek into the original 1976 Chinese film using digital technology was awesome and it really did look like he was filmed back then. Sure, it wasn't perfect (you could sometimes see the original actor's black hair) but it was incredible.
The cow scene was just stupid though.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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