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Kung Pow: Enter the Fist

Kung Pow: Enter the Fist

Jan 25, 2002
81 min
ComedyAction
6.4/ 10
704 votes

Overview

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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TMDB
6.4/10
704 votes
IMDB
6.2/10
50,110 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
13%
Tomatometer
Metacritic
M
14/100
Metascore

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Box Office & Budget

Budget$10,000,000Production cost
Box Office$17,000,000Worldwide gross
Profit$7,000,000Profitable
ROI
+70.0%Return on investment
US Box Office$16,037,962Domestic earnings

Awards & Nominations

1 win & 1 nomination total

Details

Production information

"If you've got an ass...he'll kick it!"

Status

Released

Original Language

en

Budget

$10,000,000

Revenue

$17,000,000

Production Companies

O Entertainment20th Century Fox

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