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17 September 2008 2:25 PM, PDT | From MovieBlog.Ugo.com | See recent Ugo MovieBlog news

Review by Matt Patches First, a note to the studios: Putting “The best thing of its kind since Napoleon Dynamite” across the top of a DVD is the equivalent of meeting a person with “Norbit Fan” tattooed across his forehead.  You’re asking me not to be their friend, and hey, that’s just not cool. The case for The Foot Fist Way, an indie comedy from rising star Danny McBride and director Jody Hill, is branded with such a label, and unjustly so.  Yes, both films may be micro-budget comedies about small-town America, but what works in Foot Fist’s favor is that the movie is funny.  Who would have thought?  Danny McBride, who may be the product Will Ferrell and

2 September 2008 8:00 PM, PDT | From MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news

The Foot Fist Way is coming to DVD and below you can checkout the spiff dvd art for the film.  The Foot Fist Way, strikes a blow on DVD September 23, 2008 from Paramount Home Entertainment. Starring up-and-coming comedy sensation Danny McBride (Tropic Thunder, Pineapple Express), the hilarious story follows an inept Tae Kwon Do (which translates as “foot fist way”) instructor whose life hits the skids when his wife cheats on him. Unbalanced by this personal upheaval, he seeks enlightenment by traveling to meet his martial arts hero and role model, Chuck “The Truck&rdqu...

8 August 2008 6:00 AM, PDT | From Spout.com | See recent Spout news

Rogen and Franco are hilarious in Pineapple Express, but the pothead to really watch out for is Danny McBride. Often relegated to brilliant and all-too-brief supporting roles, McBride stars in The Foot Fist Way, which is finally getting a gradual release thanks to Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. McBride's magic lies in his ability to be a complete asshole 100% of the time on screen, while still charming the viewer. How does he do that? ALSO, a call to Karina brings us back to the mid-twentieth century with some great television. What is it that makes AMC's Mad Men so addictive? ...

Kevin Buist

5 August 2008 5:06 PM, PDT | From JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news

The first time I saw Danny McBride was back when he worked opposite David Gordon Green in All The Real Girls. Since then, he has exploded and has worked on a few terrific films including the much too under appreciated The Foot Fist Way. In 2009, he is starring opposite Will Ferrell in The Land Of The Lost. In Pineapple Express, he gets to get down and vicious in one of the most fascinating fight sequences I.ve ever seen. I.m sure Pineapple will be winning .Best Fight. at the MTV Movie...

JimmyO

29 May 2008 2:04 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

There's nothing particularly subtle about the humor in Waiting For Guffman, Christopher Guest's mockumentary about a community theater group's attempts to celebrate its Missouri town's sesquicentennial, but there's nothing particularly mean about it either. Guest invites viewers to laugh at the film's parade of provincial eccentrics, but the invitation stops well short of cruelty. But not every small-town comedy knows better than to cross that line. Like an insult comic inviting the audience to applaud at a victim for being a good sport, Napoleon Dynamite gave its hero three minutes of redemption after 90 minutes of humiliation. At least it had those three minutes; the Napoleon-esque The Foot Fist Way is considerably less generous. Star/co-writer Danny McBride (best known for his part in All The Real Girls, but soon to be better known for The Pineapple Express) plays a pudgy tae kwon do instructor who defines himself by...

Keith Phipps

29 May 2008 9:42 AM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

As a rule, we tend to decline invitations to junkets or junket-like events here at The A.V. Club, because the lure of trips and snack tables is so likely to cloud our judgment about a film. But when the chance to speak with Will Ferrell and his producing/writing partner Adam McKay came up, we couldn’t resist the urge to send someone—new L.A. city editor Chris Martins—into on-camera battle. The occasion: the release of The Foot Fist Way, a scrappy indie comedy written by newcomers Danny McBride and Ben Best (who also star) and Jody Hill (who also directs). Ferrell and McKay liked the movie—about a low-rent tae kwon do instructor—so much that it became the first release for their new company, Gary Sanchez Productions. In the first two videos, Ferrell and McKay talk about happening upon the film, and in the third,

Josh Modell

26 May 2008 4:41 PM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Neil Pedley

There's something for everyone this week at the multiplex, what with Carrie and company offering something for the ladies with "Sex and the City," the Tae Kwon Do comedy "The Foot Fist Way" being an alternative for the guys, and "Savage Grace"... well, again, let's just say there's something for everyone.

"Bigger, Stronger, Faster*"

With everyone from Little League coaches to members of the U.S. Congress weighing in on the issue of performance enhancing drugs in sports, body builder (and former user) Christopher Bell injects his own story into this documentary that explores America's obsession with excellence and what it realistically takes to achieve it. Bell chronicles his own family's history of steroid use as a jumping off point to explore the wider love/hate relationship between professional athletes and performance enhancing drugs in a culture where winning is everything and there are no points for second place.

Neil Pedley

7 articles from 2008