SpunkySelfTwitter
It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.
Ketrivie
It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.
KnotStronger
This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.
Rosie Searle
It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
MartinHafer
In the last few years, there have been several martial arts spoofs that I could recommend. If you like your humor really, really dumb (yet oddly funny), then take a look at KUNG PAO--ENTER THE FIST with Steve Oedekirk. If you want the funniest and most memorable, see Steven Chow's KUNG FU HUSTLE--a film that is much more polished and less dopey than KUNG PAO.In light of these two good and watchable martial arts send-offs, I really can't see why anyone would want to see KUNG PHOOEY!--especially since it is really dumb--and not in a good way. The humor is purely elementary school level with one dull joke after another (such as calling a holy site 'Shir Lee Temple'). Frankly, I kept waiting for the jokes to get better but they didn't. The bottom line is that life is short and I doubt if many people want to see more than one or two parodies of martial arts films--so why bother with this rather limp one?! Watchable but ultimately very stupid and, at times, very annoying.
phrixion
This film goes consistently along with Scarie Movie 2 and 3, Better Off Dead, One Crazy Summer, Weird Science, Ferris Bullers Day Off, Kung Pow, Harold and Kumar, Half Baked, Big Trouble in Little China and I can go on and on. The movie presents comedy on a lot of different levels and is highly entertaining in my opinion if you like cheesy indie comedies. The film incorporates satire of traditional Chinese film and cultural stigmas in kung fu style showing the great sense of humor these comedians and writers have.Thie movie is great for kids and family too, it had me laughing and repeating lines from the movie for weeks.
porkfriedduck
I stumbled upon Kung Phooey at a local video store that tends to cater towards the indies and not so much of the mainstream. I was pleasantly surprised to see that a low-budget film could have such a good look to it. The cover just looked too silly for me to pass up. Sure, it's filled with cheap gags and goofy character imitations, but it is a slapstick spoof and that's exactly what I was expecting. Kung Phooey was a huge step up over the extremely disappointing Kung Pow: Enter the Fist. I seemed to notice some familiar faces in the cast too. Not sure why it's rated R...there didn't seem to be anything inappropriate. I watched it with my two kids and they loved it!
elaine-55
This film was very funny and entertaining! I saw both Kung Pow and Kung Phooey and there were no similarities at all. Kung Phooey has funny one-liners, action and visual laughs. The story is goofy, but well written. Definitely a movie I would see again (there was so much laughter in the theater, it was hard to catch all the jokes). There's more to this film than a crazy comedy, there's an underlying message about Asian stereotypes. For an independent film, the fight scenes, costumes and locations were exceptional. I also hope to see more of Darryl Fong's work in the future.
