Hey Beautiful, Harry here... wink wink.... It's been a long night, wanna make it longer? Actually, this is something KINDA cool MAYBE.... Steve Oedekerk, genius behind ACE VENTURA: WHEN NATURE CALLS, co-writer on NUTTY PROFESSOR, NOTHING TO LOSE and PATCH ADAMS brings us THE DUBBED ACTION MOVIE: ENTER THE FIST. Now, what this 'genius' has done... is take a fine classic 70's Kung Fu Flick directed by Run Run Shaw star actor and director... JIMMY WANG-YU... who prior to BRUCE LEE was the big tamale in the world of Hong Kong Kung Fu films. He was the lead in the first Kung Fu flick to make over a Million Dollars for the Shaw Brothers. He Later demanded to have complete control over his films (Like Bruce Lee did later btw) and made THE CHINESE BOXER, which was the first unarmed pure hand to hand foot-to-head kung fu flick! As you can see... this guy was a pioneer in the world of Hong Kong Kung Fu flicks..... So Steve Oedekerk who helped Jim Carrey pioneer talking out your ass more times in the sequel to the original ass speech flick which technically he wasn't involved in... Is going to take this movie.... SAVAGE KILLERS and insert his white boy self into it digitally... while also changing what everybody is saying and make it a pure comedy. sigh.... Ok, fine whatever... "Harry is a stick in the mud" But ya know.... I really have a profound problem with taking other people's movies EVEN IF YOU PAY FOR IT and then fucking with them in ways that were never intended. Now sure... this falls under the banner of FOUND ART.... He found this movie.... and is going to clean it up, add some new twists and sounds and dum... Put it on the market for us all to LAUGH AT. I just hope... that when he and the studio come out with the film on DVD that they have the original somewhere on the DVD so we can see it.... preserved the way it was before his white boy ass was digitally inserted... Which brings me back to FREDDY GOT FINGERED.... um... no it didn't.
Harry here.... so that brings me to this... a review of this film that came in mere moments ago... Astounding how my instincts based purely upon the past brilliance of Oedekerk, I seemed to feel that this was gonna rule dollar theaters for half a week... Well, here's the review...
I saw Dubed action movie as part of a test screening back in late November in San Diego and wasn't going to write a summary but I see you've got some info on it so here's my two cents.
When I came back from Thanksgiving Vacation, my roommate told me that he'd been given a hand out about being part of a test audience for Dubed Action Movie and that he could bring a guest. After hearing about these mysterious and illistrious test screenings for years, I was totally stoked to finially be a part of one. I'd read about the movie about a year or so earlier in Entertainment Weekely and being a longtime fan of MST3K and the like was really looking forward to seeing the film when it reached theaters anyways. Plus I heard it was from some guy named Odenkirk. Unfortunately this wasn't Bob but Steve and insted of the great stuff I'd been loving for years on Ben Stiller and Mr. Show I got a little over 2 hours of jokes that are kind of funny in theory but don't really seem to work.
The Movie is your basic Kung Fu movie (protaginist must avenge nearly invincible master who has killed his brother/girlfirend/family) with new stuff of Odenkirk put in. I was expecting a little of him here and there as kind of a little joke, but the guy has taken over the role of the protaginist. The first problem with this is the guy looks like he dosen't belong in the movie at all. Forget the fact that he's white. He looks like your sterotypical Hollywood prettyboy and sticks out like a sore thumb. Maybe someone like Ben Stiller or the other Odenkirk could pull this off but not this guy. He also has a penchant for taking his shirt off all the time and showing off his abs.
While the movie started out funny (a new scene that has an animated babby kisking a bunch of guy's asses) the movie just started sucking once it really began. There were a few pretty funny parts but the movie was just one not very funny but extremely long joke after another. I guess this guy is know for his thumb movies where he recreats movies as shorts staring thumbs with faces cg'ed on them. Well they did a thing like that where his tongue had a face on it. It was funny when they introduced it but they kept showing it over and over again and it just got anoying. Of couse there was the perverbial matrix spoof, this one versus a cow. The audience thought it was funny but I personially think it's overdone. I wouln't be suprised if they'll do a reshoot spoofing Crouching Tiger between now and it's release.
I kind of feel bad for the director becasue after about 45 minutes or so, people started leaving, a few yelling "this sucks" as they walked out the door. I guess if they really clean this movie up and trim alot of the not funny crap out it could turn in to somehing decient. But I'm not betting on it.
Max Power
