Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior

Mom Can't Cook! A DCOM Podcast

Luke Westaway & Andy Farrant

Tv & Film, Comedy

5 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 135 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back, podcast fans, to Mom Can't Cook! This week we're recapping 2006's Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior, a film that attempts to be a martial arts movie, a high school drama, a wacky fish out of water comedy and a thoughtful examination of the pressures affecting first and second generation immigrants. Does it succeed? Kind of!

DCOM royalty Brenda Song plays Wendy Wu, a feisty teen whose only goal in life is to be crowned homecoming queen at the prom, a plan that is thrown into jeopardy when a Shaolin monk turns up to inform her that she is the reincarnation of a legendary warrior who must defeat an ancient evil named Yan Lo. Will Wendy embrace her culture and history to defeat Yan Lo? Can she balance her homecoming campaign with her kung fu training? And why are everyone's clothes so dusty? Listen to find out, and if you want bonus episodes of the show, remember to check out our Patreon at Patreon.com/extrahelpings.

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0:00.0	I'm a fish boy who skates with team X-Plades with a leprecorn who plays basketball
0:08.6	come to my smart house
0:11.1	speed by alien sister don't come hungry because I'll bet my mom can't cook.
0:17.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Mom Can Cook at Decom Podcast.
0:27.0	I am one of your hosts Andy Farons and I am from a long lineage of podcasters who every 90 years must review Wendy Wu Homecoming Warrior and
0:37.4	now I must begin my training. And I'm your other host Luke Westaway and I'm thinking that as a recurring sort of thing to have to deal with
0:46.4	that's not too bad because 90 years ago Wendy Wu Homecoming Warrior wasn't out wasn't made
0:51.8	so there was like a sort of there was like a black and white newsreel of it.
0:54.9	But your previous incarnation must have had a reasonably straightforward time.
0:59.1	Yeah, it was only like two minutes long and it was sort of, yeah,
1:02.0	flickery and nothing really happened I wouldn't really call that your past
1:05.5	self's destiny more just like a thing they had to get out the way one
1:09.0	like before work one morning yeah and podcast didn't exist so they just sort of
1:12.4	stood on a box in
1:13.7	the speaker's corner in Hyde Park and just shouted it. Well I suppose Destiny is
1:17.3	appeased that was roughly right. But now now, now muggin's here I've got a
1:22.1	recap a 90 minute movie.
1:24.0	I don't envy this incarnation of Andy.
1:27.0	You're, you're like the monk who's been sent to help me.
1:30.0	Yes, I am.
1:31.0	Yes, well I reincarnate, obviously I die every time. You don't, painfully.
1:35.0	I painfully die every time.
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