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Summary: Lighten Up! It's a Great Movie!
Review: Honestly I can say that even quoting this movie makes me double over in laughter. I originally saw this in the theatre, not knowing what to expect and laughed through the entire thing. I couldn't wait for the DVD! My roommates, co-workers and I can hold hours conversations based on this movie alone! All I can say is critics lighten up! It's a great movie, worth seeing again and again because you catch more and more every time. I absolutely adore Evil Master Betty. He's the best part of the entire movie.
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Summary: This was bad!
Review: This movies was so horrible! I cant believe I sat through the whole thing. I am a big fan of Steve O's thumb movies so I thought this movie would be great but it was just a big disappointment, the dubbing over the real voice just gets old, stupid and boring. Save your money and buy a thumb movie you will be glad you did!
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Summary: Better than it's worst critics say, but still a stinker
Review: It is funny in the same goofy, lazy way as flatulence jokes and sexist jokes. Which is to say you have to turn off a vital part of your intelligence to enjoy this movie. But in spite of realizing what was taking place, I still found myself laughing at parts of it when I knew better. It is totally stupid, but will probably work on you anyway, especially if you are a non-circumspect, easy laugher. So much laughter takes you by surprise anyway, like a spasm; if you are one of the highly susceptible, and have a funnybone that is not overly doctrinaire or uptight, this movie may get to you. I guess your questions for yourself would be 1) is it worth the price and 2) do I stand on any principle that would cause me to be offended by anything I see in a no-holds-barred comedy romp through Moronville. My smart friends despise this film. But I must add that some of the very smartest are beginning to join the backlash against those who hate it. They see it as an unprecedented exercise in critic-tweaking that makes a laundry list of dos and don'ts, and goes down that list doing everything wrong that it possibly can, even throwing in some improvisational violations of all recognized canons of art and common sense and good taste that are inspired. As compelling as this take on Kung Pow may be, the fact remains you still have to sit through it and listen to it for an hour and a half. And THAT, my friends, is more pain than a lot of us are willing to endure for our progressive attitude.
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Summary: Dubbing, laughs, and a whole lot of confusion
Review: I enjoyed watching this movie. It had very funny lines and dubs. It had the gopher-chucks, the cow, and a whole lot of funny moments. And, yes, there WERE outtakes. "I'll get some tweezers and choke you with a cotton ball, you son of a..." There was even a nice little birdie after the credits... :)If you haven't seen this movie, I say you're crazy.
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Summary: Worth it for the overdubbing of Master Pain alone
Review: OMG this movie had me rolling numerous times, and I've watched it a few times a day recently. Yes, it's got some horribly bad jokes but understand they are more aimed at the really little kids that will inevitably watch this movie. Sorry, did I say Master Pain? I meant Betty...
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Summary: Not funny by any stretch of the definition.
Review: I am glad the word is getting out on this movie through citizen reviews like these. Media critics are an irrelevancy in the lives of the average Kung Pow viewer. Maybe the ridicule of their peers is all that will embarrass those who love Kung Pow off this junk. After everything has been said about it, I think it's clear that Kung Pow is a kid's film, not an adult one, and more specifically a film MADE for the taste of the typical 13 year old boy. This sounds cut and dried, but the complicated part comes in the fact that there are a lot of 35 year old 13 year olds out there who are eating Kung Pow with a spoon. Sad to say, this group may be beyond hope; this DVD will probably still be selling briskly when we are all 99 years old, or, as Abe Lincoln might put it, "as long as foul taste endures". If you have [money]to spend on a lowbrow comedy, may I recommend any of the following: Ace Ventura, Pet Detective (definitely the first one), Airplane, Top Secret, Rat Race, or Death Becomes Her. Or maybe you should just order a pizza or tub of hot wings and tape the all-weekend WWF-athon on cable.
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Summary: Beyond awful!
Review: It's amazing that this guy was allowed to spend the money to make this. How bad is this thing? Well, it almost makes Tom Greene and Adam Sandler seem to be the height of sophisticated comedy....Really and truly, Oedekerk should be paying US to watch this junk. It's not even as funny as a test pattern on your TV
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Summary: Great, funny, enjoyable movie, with an original theme.
Review: Despite what others say, I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. I'm a fan of the classics, and I own over 100 DVD's, done by the likes of kubrick, spielberg, etc. But I can still find enjoyment in silly comedies. There was really nothing bad about this flick at all. The jokes were funny, the dialogue was hilarious, and it was overall very enjoyable to watch. There were a few moments when I was insanely laughing (Like when the dog barked, and the sound of the barking came three seconds later). However, there were also moments I thought were a bit too cheesy or unfunny. For the most part, they were the cow-fighting scene and the whole Lion King parody. The graphics on the Lion King parody part were a bit too unrealistic to even be enjoyable. Despite small flaws, I would recommend this film to anyone who has a sense of humor and isn't anal about "wasting 85 minutes of their lives" on this film.
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Summary: Like Unsorted Leftovers from 25 years of Bad Amateur Comedy
Review: Oedekerk, the brains behind this film, connected with Jim Carrey to script the second Ace Ventura flick. That is the brief shining moment in a career otherwise devoted to movies in which the only actors are giant close-ups of thumbs with miniature human mouths grafted on them through crude digital effects. The humor and the ambience of these films is childish, but they are not aimed at kids. (Oedekerk has a potty mind and frequently goes where he shouldn't go with the general audience.) Maybe that is all I need to say about Kung Pow. But indulge me for a minute. There is a joke here about a man named Nurse Betty Pain who is left in charge of a sick man with a chest wound. The nurse/guy gets way too friendly with the man and way too interested in the wound, and in the next scene, we learn the man took an inexplicable turn for the worse and died (inexplicable, except to the audience --nudge nudge, wink wink, haw haw). The implication here, I leave to you. But this is typical Oedekerk. The coarsest humor in the most questionable of taste. And, for those who care about such things, no finesse or style to anything that happens. Oedekerk is a thoroughly accomplished Mr. Amateur Night. (The only thing worse than Oedekerk here, might, MIGHT be any one of the millions of wannabe funnymen launched at a target far past their grasp by Bill Murray's lounge singer from the first season of SNL.) Consider yourself warned.
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Summary: Quite Simply, THE GREATEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME!!!
Review: The critics are FOOLS! You will not only watch this movie repeatedly, but also quote lines of dialog with your friends at work again and again! Can you say that about Citizen Kane? Watch this movie along with BASEketball to understand the true meaning of ART.
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