While most of the deadpan remarks hit the spot, the erratic sketch-like editing and overall slapdash structure give it an air of incompleteness. Fun in parts, slipshod in others.
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09/26/08
The Foot Fist Way (2008)
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Reviews Counted:80
Fresh:44
Rotten:36
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: The rough edges and biting humor of this martial arts comedy will keep audiences laughing and cringing in turns.
Theatrical Release:26-09-2008
Synopsis: The literal translation of "Tae Kwan Do," THE FOOT FIST WAY is a hilarious look at a suburban North Carolina strip mall martial arts school run by a bullying egotist (Danny McBride). Shot on the... [More]
Reviews for The Foot Fist Way
Top CriticWhen it works, The Foot Fist Way is among the most painfully funny comedies of the year. Alas, there’s just as much here that doesn’t quite hit home, making for a lot of dead air between the gags.
09/26/08
From a bunch of minor Judd Apatow protégés, a dispiriting low-budget series of witless, misogynistic sketches masquerading as comedy.
09/26/08
Top CriticThe comedy is of the kind that makes you wince rather than laugh; the camerawork is defiantly ugly and the performances are unpolished.
09/26/08
Top CriticShot on video, more vérité than mockumentary in style, Foot Fist shames bigger-budgeted fare with its gags-to-bucks ratio.
09/26/08
Top CriticWatching the movie, even when it's not working -- which is a lot of the time -- one doesn't tire of McBride.
10/18/08
Cut from the same cringe-inducing cloth as The Office and Napoleon Dynamite, this low-budget comedy about a clueless Tae Kwan Do tutor punches, chops and karate-kicks above its weight.
09/26/08
Top CriticA funny showcase for rising star Danny McBride, if not quite the second comedy coming it's being marketed as.
09/26/08
Top CriticWatchable mockumentary with strong performances, but it's not as funny as it should have been and is ultimately both depressing and uncomfortable to sit through.
10/18/08
A striking low-budget debut that manages to combine deadpan one-liners, pathos, physical comedy and fighting stars.
09/26/08
Top CriticBut the annoying McBride often resorts to foul-mouthed tirades and so lacks Ricky Gervais’s warmth.
09/26/08
Top CriticThis could have been The Karate Kid done as The Office, but in the end drops to its knees as The Flat-Foot Ham-Fisted Way.
09/26/08
Top CriticEven though The Foot Fist Way has some moments of inspired lunacy, its paper-thin premise could barely sustain a half-hour short, let alone an 85-minute feature.
05/29/08
A film crying out to be discovered by midnight movie mavens.
05/22/08
Top CriticBasically plays like a Will Ferrell vehicle without Will Ferrell.
06/18/08
Worse things can and will happen this year than The Foot Fist Way being a small success.
05/29/08
This is a really small film, shot in 19 days, and it's a little rough around the edges, but it's got a huge comic heart that's undeniable.
01/26/06
This is a really small film, shot in 19 days, and it's a little rough around the edges, but it's got a huge comic heart that's undeniable.
10/18/08
It may not look like much, but the low-budget tae kwon do comedy The Foot Fist Way is one of the funniest DIY flicks in years, thanks to the droll wit of writer-director Jody Hill and star Danny McBride.
05/27/08
Breaking boards and concrete blocks is fun to watch, but that and a few good laughs, do not a viable comedy product make
05/28/08
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