Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Strong and Moving!

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Seriously, this movie was great. It is a low budget film, and that into consideration should be taken into account. I laughed my as off! The acting, directing, and writing were good. I hope he makes more films! The sound editing was great also. The director/writer, cast, and crew made this film great! And no, I do not know any of them, but I would like to me them!My friend just did a low budget movie (really low, and it isn't a zombie movie...even though it was made in Florida). It is called Mandatory Overtime. It has some good writing, but the sound quality and acting were kind of bad (sorry Brad, I liked it but just being honest...not that you will ever read this). But the point is the movie made laugh. Anyway, check out http://www.mandatoryovertimethemovie.comIf you are interested!But back to this movie...Tons of laughs and clever writing!! Thank you!

Kung Phooey is for anyone who has deliberately forced themselves to watch every eastern and western martial arts chop-socky schlock flick known to man, although only a few of these genre fans will truly appreciate where KP is coming from (and ultimately going to). As bad as this film is to any sensible movie critic, the first few minutes alone will have you spurting out your favourite beverage through your nose - the intro recreates the "Kung Fu sanddune walkabout" Zucker-style with many of those bizarrely unrelated visual tidbits to keep you guessing every few seconds. The rest of this film however takes itself about as seriously as a secondary school stage play and is probably just about as interesting, at least on the surface. The seemingly $2.50 budget does not give one much expectation for world-class fight choreography or acting for that matter, but if you are willing to forgo these "small graces" then there are many mildly amusing filmic, cultural and (the all-important) stereotypical send ups to be savoured here. Basically, Kung Phooey is the martial arts spoof home-movie that you and your mates have always wanted to make but were truly afraid to see through to fruition.As far as sustaining this one-joke-wonder into a 90 minute foray it inevitably falls short of the mark, well below that of the joke-per-minute classics like Flying High (er, Airplane). Instead, the filmmakers decided that if they couldn't be overtly hilarious, then they should at least try and be clever about the self-contained universe that all martial arts films seem to live in. The humour is thence derived from the characters often using real-world logic to dismantle their own movie-world actions and motivations that occur around them (and vice versa if that's possible). If you can, grab the DVD to watch the making-of featurette which shows all the heavenly glory of Z-budget film-making as well as the fun you can have when you really put your mind to it (you can't make a dream come true unless you have a dream). The deleted scenes also go further into a couple of other characters who should have had equal screen time with the Muscles from Brussels when he finally gets his comeuppance in the most painful way imaginable. And of course, don't forget the outtakes! If you have watched (but not necessarily enjoyed) Kung Pow: Enter The Fist for its unique take on this undervalued film genre, who knows if you will get into Kung Phooey or not ... maybe having a bottle of the cheapest booze on hand will help. But one thing is almost certain with this movie ... it will not have a sequel!

I saw this at the SF Asian American Film Festival. The first show completely sold out so there was a second showing too. In both cases, the theaters were PACKED!! Not a single empty seat either. The humor was sly in the way it took jabs at stereotypes of Asians in the movies.**SPOILER** For example, there was a scene in a chinese restaurant where a group of Midwest tourists had just finished a meal. After they left the owner turns to the rest of the diners and says, "OK, white people gone!" At the point EVERYONE puts down their chopsticks and pick forks and knives!**SPOILER** There was another part where Waymon says to Uncle Wong, "Why do you keep doing that subserviant chinese old man thing!?" Uncle Wong's accent disappears and he calls the script supervisor into the shot and says, "That's what it says in the script!""Kung Phooey!" hit the mark much better than the god awful "Kung Pow." The fact that "Kung Phooey!" was actually a low budget independent movie added a certain amount of charm to it.The jokes and humor were paced well enough so that it didn't overwhelm the story. What "Better Luck Tomorrow" did for Asian Americans in a drama "Kung Phooey!" does for Asian Americans in comedy. Go see it and you'll leave the theater cracking up too!PS. Stick around through the credits and you'll see some HILARIOUS outtakes!

Despite the title, Kung Phooey! is really not so much a spoof targeting kung-fu movies as it is a spoof on cultural stereotypes of Asian Americans, particularly Asian-American males. It does take shots at the kung-fu film genre, but it is limited by its budget, and the action scenes, while well-executed considering the limitations, are few and far between. While Kung Phooey! hits a few of the obvious bases in its parodies of martial-arts films, it mostly spoofs them in ways that purposefully examine how they inform popular conceptions of Asians. While the film seeks to hide its social satire within its media/pop culture parodies, its social satire is far too unsubtle to stay below the surface. That's not necessarily a bad thing, since spoofs like this aren't about subtlety anyway, and this cultural perspective is the strongest thing Kung Phooey! has going for it. Besides, it's nice to see a film that has a message of ethnic pride but doesn't use it as an excuse to get overly serious and self-important--and parody is the perfect genre for achieving this. The message is made quite clear, but it never hits you over the head in that obnoxious, self-righteous kind of way.As a kung-fu spoof, the film is a bit lacking, but taken as a satirical response to media portrayals of Asian Americans, it's much stronger. Some jokes play better than others, but overall, it's a satisfying ride--especially for Asian-American audiences who have been thinking these things for a long time, and can now see them acknowledged on screen.