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tubalcane420

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If you love The Office, you are guaranteed to love this movie. I, however, am getting very tired of cringe-marathons like this. Danny McBride's brutally clueless and cruel character is extremely funny, but it's far too painful to consider the...
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If you love The Office, you are guaranteed to love this movie. I, however, am getting very tired of cringe-marathons like this. Danny McBride's brutally clueless and cruel character is extremely funny, but it's far too painful to consider the normal people in his path.

I try to imagine that it's all just a movie, and the director says "cut" and all the actors have a laugh. It's just hard when he's trying to hit on a student that obviously is not interested or any of the other humiliating failures he runs into.

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Posted feb 10, 2009 9:17 am pt

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Being that I'm a huge fan of this type of comedies there wasn't much of a chance I wasn't going to like this movie. The main character was just so into his job as the head instructor for a tae kwon do school. It kept me laughing the whole time....
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Being that I'm a huge fan of this type of comedies there wasn't much of a chance I wasn't going to like this movie. The main character was just so into his job as the head instructor for a tae kwon do school. It kept me laughing the whole time. Fred Simmons rules!

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Posted dec 18, 2008 8:20 am pt

• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  100
  The result is a comedy that's low budget in all the right ways - so hilarious, testosterone-charged and yet cringe-inducing to watch that the result is almost exhausting.

  by Peter Hartlaub | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  91
  Not short on broad physical humor. But Simmons is a brilliantly detailed grotesque capable of withstanding comparison to his most obvious inspiration, Ricky Gervais' "Office" boss David Brent.

  by Clark Collis | Read Full Review »
• [+] Portland Oregonian
  
  83
  The always thin tightrope between "laughing at" and "laughing with" is negotiated with success in the low-budget comedy The Foot Fist Way.

  by Marc Mohan | Read Full Review »
• [+] Film Threat
  
  80
  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.

  by Eric Campos | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  80
  It's all saved by actor Danny McBride, who has created such a distinctive character in Simmons, at once engaging and repulsive, that it's hard not to keep watching even while cringing.

  by Mark Olsen | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  80
  An itsy-bitsy, ultra-indie, super-silly comedy packing huge laughs and unexpected heart.

  by Nathan Lee | Read Full Review »
• [+] USA Today
  
  75
  A refreshingly silly and clever portrait of a strikingly daft and clueless man.

  by Claudia Puig | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Post
  
  75
  The movie is so heavily weighted toward the Simmons character that no one else really gets to breathe. And though McBride's shtick is brilliant - he could get rich by playing variations on this character for the next few years, and probably will.

  by Kyle Smith | Read Full Review »
• [+] Rolling Stone
  
  75
  This hilarious, high-kicking nonsense cost two cents and looks it -- hell, it was shot in 19 days, but you'll laugh helplessly anyway.

  by Peter Travers | Read Full Review »
• [+] Philadelphia Inquirer
  
  75
  A deadpan, dead-on comedy.

  by Steven Rea | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  70
  It plays exactly like a Will Ferrell comedy, but better, because Ferrell's not in it.

  by J.R. Jones | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  70
  The character of Fred Simmons is a Cliff Clavin-esque sensei deluxe in The Foot Fist Way, a low-budget, low-flying farce a la "Napoleon Dynamite" or "Jackass: The Movie."

  by John Anderson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Village Voice
  
  70
  Truthfully, The Foot Fist Way is no different from an episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm": This is irritainment, something you snicker at while covering your eyes, praying that this guy never gets loose in the real world, when, in fact, he's your next-door neighbor. Or you.

  by Robert Wilonsky | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  63
  This scrappy, ultra-low budget comedy, made in 19 days for $70,000 by North Carolina School of the Arts graduates Jody Hill, Danny McBride and Ben Best, comes with its own Cinderella tale: It debuted at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival but failed to find distribution until comedian Will Ferrell and his business partner, Adam McKay, championed it.

  by Maitland McDonagh | Read Full Review »
• [+] Miami Herald
  
  63
  It's more amusing than not, but some scenes outlast the humor in them.

  by Connie Ogle | Read Full Review »