In the annals of bad-film history, Rudy Ray Moore is a legend, a dynamo whose oeuvre (Dolemite, The Human Tornado, The Avenging Disco Godfather) has established him in the pantheon of bad filmmakers alongside such legends as Ed Wood, Ray Dennis Steckler, and Master P. A popular stand-up comedian and recording artist in the '60s and '70s, Moore hasn't starred in a film in almost 20 years, a fact that no doubt has his legions of fans anxiously awaiting his return. Sadly, however, Moore turns in only the most arbitrary of cameos in Shaolin Dolemite, an atrocious martial-arts spoof that takes a cheap old kung-fu film and re-dubs it with "wacky" new dialogue a la What's Up, Tiger Lily? It isn't exactly a new idea, but it's seldom been slapped together in as lazy and half-assed a fashion as in Shaolin Dolemite. For one thing, the vast majority of the soundtrack consists solely of fighting sounds that might as well have been left over from the original film, and the new footage of the way-past-middle-age Moore cursing up a storm is beyond clumsily integrated. A tiny bit of humor can be derived from the replacement of the original film's pidgin-English kung-fu dialogue with supposedly humorous "jive" terminology; it's not a particularly funny device, but it's just about all Shaolin Dolemite has going for it. It would be nice to report that it's a hilarious campfest along the lines of Moore's earlier films, but it's not; it's just lazy, exploitative, and devoid of laughs. Those still jonesing for Moore's comic stylings are probably better off waiting for his next film, in which (God help us) he reprises his Dolemite character alongside Shaggy 2 Dope and Violent J in the upcoming Insane Clown Posse film.