Kung Pow: Enter the Fist

Kung Pow: Enter the Fist (2002) parodies the martial arts genre with a self-aware meta-narrative that splices contemporary characters into a 1970s kung-fu film. Writer-director Steve Oedekerk stars as The Chosen One, an inept martial artist seeking vengeance for his parents' murder at the hands of the notorious Master Pain. Accompanied by a roster of bizarre characters, Oedekerk's film lampoons the conventions of the genre, delivering a campy, irreverent send-up that skewers both the form's grandiosity and its clichés.