Kung Phooey!

Mar 11, 2003

1h 27m

★ 5.3

All the action, twice the laughs... no M.S.G.

Overview

The plot follows Art Chew's (a pun of the sound one makes when sneezing) quest to retrieve the ancient peach. The movie starts with Art Chew traveling to America, as well as showing Art's training at the Shur-li temple (a play on words with the child actor Shirley Temple), showing many kung-fu clichés such as grabbing the pebble from the masters hand (which Art succeeds without effort), fighting on trees in this case small potted palms and "listing" for elements (Earth, Wind and Fire play a funky tune). After the montage is shown Art meets up with his cousin Wayman (A parody on the way Chinese pronounce r as w) a Chinese adult who tries to act American so he isn't embarrassed by stereotypes and foster cousin Roy Lee, an African American who sincerely believes he is a reincarnation of Bruce Lee.

Genres

Action

Comedy

Production Companies

Kung Phooey Productions LLC

Nakota Films

Outpost Studios

Kung Phooey! Trailers

Cast

Art Chew

Michael Chow Man-Kin

Helen Hu (as Joyce Thi Brew)

Joyce Brew

Roy Lee

Colman Domingo

Waymon

Darryl Fong

Sue Shee

Karena Davis

Uncle Wong

Wallace Choy

One Ton

Fred Salvallon

Ralph

Ralph Peduto

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