But the annoying McBride often resorts to foul-mouthed tirades and so lacks Ricky Gervais’s warmth.
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09/26/08
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The Foot Fist Way (2008)
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Reviews Counted: 72
Fresh: 41
Rotten:31
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.
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 cheap (in just 19 days), the film uses its... [More]
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When 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
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
This 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
From a bunch of minor Judd Apatow protégés, a dispiriting low-budget series of witless, misogynistic sketches masquerading as comedy.
09/26/08
Shot on video, more vérité than mockumentary in style, Foot Fist shames bigger-budgeted fare with its gags-to-bucks ratio.
09/26/08
The 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
A funny showcase for rising star Danny McBride, if not quite the second comedy coming it's being marketed as.
09/26/08
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.
09/26/08
A striking low-budget debut that manages to combine deadpan one-liners, pathos, physical comedy and fighting stars.
09/26/08
...there is no way of my getting around saying how badly amateurish the film is and how prosaic it can be.
09/23/08
Apparently the writers thought Fred was so inherently funny they barely bothered to write jokes for him - and then thought those jokes were so funny they didn't need well-timed delivery.
06/27/08
This comedy clocks in around 90 minutes. Yet somehow it still feels too long and overly padded -- as if it were a sketch-comedy show bit that was stretched out to feature length.
06/26/08
A semi-hilarious nonformula movie that makes you realize why formulas are born.
06/20/08
Built out of the 'asshole as hero' mode of amusement...The Foot Fist Way is a collection of contradictory ideals gelling effortlessly into a smart, savvy whole.
06/19/08
A low-budget wannabe cult comedy shot three years ago, only recently graduating from underground DVD circulation to a small theatrical release. It should've stayed in obscurity.
06/19/08
A raucous and often very funny examination of a man who is a loser in every possible respect.
06/13/08
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