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When tae kwon do instructor Fred Simmons (Danny McBride) isn’t basking in the glory of an early ‘90s championship win, he’s leading uninformative lessons for mostly scrawny students and looking up to his hero, movie star and martial arts legend Chuck “The Truck” Wallace (Ben Best). Fred’s already not-great life gets even not-greater when his wife Suzie (Mary Jane Bostic) cheats on him and he finds out that The Truck might not really be such an awesome guy.

Big questions: Will this low-budget indie comedy attract fans of “Napoleon Dynamite”-style outsiders, or is it a movie just revolving around a group of idiots for us to laugh at? Or both?

Skip it: This is the kind of comedy where a young, strong guy beats up an old woman and a teacher hits on a female student and she still stays in his class. It’s like an entire movie of deleted scenes on a DVD you got for free at the grocery store.

Catch it: To learn from Suzie that you won’t win any friends at work if you make a list of who’s most likely to go on a killing spree. Awkward.

Bottom line: Very little happens in “The Foot Fist Way,” but what does is so mean-spirited and unfunny that you won’t exactly wish for more. McBride (“Drillbit Taylor,” “Hot Rod”) makes a funny sidekick even when he’s sleazy, but he’s got no chance as a star if he continues to play jerks this jerky.

Bonus: Consider if your daily workout, like tae kwon do, can also turn you into a “deadly serious killing machine.” Then decide if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.

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