Now this is more like it!
There were just so many moments in this
film where I was almost dying with laughter, from the gopher
nun-chucks to the intermission song, I was smiling the whole way
through.
Kung Pow is the story of The Chosen
One's (Steve Oederkerk) journey to avenge the death of his parents at
the hands of Master Pain. Isn't that what most martial arts movies
are about? What you might not know is that Kung Pow is unique (to my
knowledge) in that it is part archived footage of another movie (Hu
He Shuang Xing/Tiger and Crane Fists) with the audio all dubbed by
Oederkerk in addition to some green-screening. I won't say that this
technique is flawless, but it was very well done, with some scenes
looking flawlessly edited. The CGI is better than some films too.
It's not very often you get called on to create a kung-fu cow, but it
happened, and boy did it kung my fu.
Wow. That sounded wrong.
With Oederkerk doing all the dubbing,
there are bound to be a few over the top voices, and this is
confirmed as soon as Miss Piggy starts squealing. It doesn't stop
there though. He even gives the background characters voices. See
that group of kids running down the street? They're singing a song
about how they are children. I didn't say they were interesting
voices, did I? We do get a scene of two guys with their mouths
completely shut singing while carrying stuff though. Because they're
ventriloquists! How ingenious is that? We get the obligatory
'mouth-moves-for-ages-and-only-says-one-word' line, and even the dog
gets dubbed. For barking... With copious amounts of video game
sound-bites and the line, “killing is badong”, I'll leave you
with this thought.
Did that cow just piledrive him?
I don't care what anyone says, I loved
this film and highly recommend anyone who enjoys old martial arts
films to watch this. Too bad there's no sequel. - 4 gophers out of 5
Oh. And there are aliens in it. They're French. Deal with it.
