A movie within a movie, created to spoof the martial arts genre. Writer/director Steve Oedekerk uses contemporary characters and splices them into a 1970s kung-fu film, weaving the new and old together. As the main character, The Chosen One, Oedekerk sets off to avenge the deaths of his parents at the hands of kung-fu legend Master Pain. Along the way he encounters some strange characters.











25th January 2002
24 years ago
1 hour 21 minutes
Finishes at 8:09pm
$10,000,000 ($14,741,000 today)
Revenue $17,000,000




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