Steve Oedekerk helped Jim Carrey with Ace Venture Pet Detective and directed and wrote Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls. He’s also known for his Thumbmation parodies. But Kung Pow! is probably what he’s known best for.

Tiger & Crane Fists (also known as Savage Killers) is a 1976 directed by and starring Jimmy Wang Yu, a former Shaw Brothers actor who was “the biggest star of Asian martial arts cinema until the emergence of Bruce Lee” and the star of The Chinese Boxer, a movie that made his name famous and led to Chinese kids wanting to know more about Shaolin Kung Fu. After that movie, he broke his contract with Shaw Brothers, got sued and was banned from making movies in Hong Kong. That led to him going to work for Golden Harvest and making movies in Taiwan.

He also had ties to organized crime and when Jackie Chan needed to get out of his contract with Lo Wei — one also with Triad ties — Wang made it happen. That’s why Jackie is in Fantasy Mission Force and Island of Fire. Wang also associated with members of the Bamboo Union, a Taiwan-based triad, and was even part of their war with the Four Seas triad. He also had a stroke in 2011 and refused to listen to doctors, doing five times the rehab they told him to do, eventually regaining a lot of his muscle and memory. Sadly, he died in 2022, but man, what a life both on the silver screen and off.

So how strange is it to see Steve Oedekerk’s face and voice superimposed over a legit killing machine?

He is The Chosen One — identified by a sentient tongue called Tonguey — who is trained alongside  Wimp Lo (Lau Kar-wing, one of the most important people in Hong Kong martial arts movies and the choreographer of Master of the Flying Guillotine, King Boxer and Armour of God) and Ling (Ling Ling Tse, ). He also has the chance to battle Master Pain — or Betty — his enemy who is played by Fei Lung (Hand of Death), a man he can’t defeat until more training from Master Tang (Hui Lou Chen) and a one-breasted woman named Whoa (Jennifer Tung).

He must also fight Moo Nieu, a cow that knows martial arts, and his need to battle his enemy causes the death of Ling’s father Master Doe (Chi Ma). Then there’s advice from Mu-Shu Fasa — The Lion King Hong Kong version — and learns that Master Pain is powered by French aliens.

Your love for this will depend on how much you like people making fun of kung fu movies. Then again, Odenkirk at least does martial arts. He claims that he wanted to make three of these movies with one being a peplum and the other an Italian Western. Now that I want to see.