Balls Of Fury Movie
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Everything this fall
A huge comedy with tiny balls
In the unsanctioned, underground, and unhinged world of extreme Ping-Pong, the competition is brutal and the stakes are deadly. Now, this outrageous new comedy serves up this secret world for the first time on-screen. Down-and-out former professional Ping-Pong phenom Randy Daytona (Dan Fogler) is sucked into this maelstrom when FBI Agent Rodriguez (George Lopez) recruits him for a secret mission. Randy is determined to bounce back and recapture his former glory, and to smoke out his father's (Robert Patrick) killer - one of the FBI's Most Wanted, arch-fiend Feng (Christopher Walken). But, after two decades out of the game, Randy can't turn his life around and avenge his father's murder without a team of his own. He calls upon the spiritual guidance of blind Ping-Pong sage and restaurateur Wong (James Hong), and the training expertise of Master Wong's wildly sexy niece Maggie (Maggie Q), both of whom also have a dark history with Feng. All roads lead to Feng's mysterious jungle compound and the most unique Ping-Pong tournaments ever staged. There, Randy faces such formidable players as his long-ago Olympics opponent, the still-vicious Karl Wolfschtagg (Thomas Lennon). Can Randy keep his eye on the ball? Will he achieve the redemption he craves while wielding a paddle? Is his backhand strong enough to triumph over rampant wickedness?
| John Arroyo | Guard with stolen goods |
| Diedrich Bader | |
| Adam Bobrow | Tiny Player |
| Skyler Caleb | German Ping Pong Player |
| Darryl Chan | Enormous Guard |
| Howard Chan | Russian Roulette Man |
| Gelbert Coloma | Ping Pong Player |
| Terry Crews | |
| Brett DelBuono | Young Randy Daytona |
| Dan Fogler | Randy Daytona |
| Michael Gordon | Hammers' Coach |
| David Holmes | TV Producer |
| James Hong | Master Wong |
| Toby Huss | The Groundskeeper |
| Mark Hyland | Umberto Dinovi |
| Ben Garant |
5.00 out of 10 (4588 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Has its moments
posted on 20 Aug 2009A comic take on both the "Karate Kid" and the "Enter the Dragon" formulas (replacing kung fu with ping pong), "Balls of Fury" is not a great comedy but it has its moments. If I had to single out the one actor who gets the most laughs, it would be James Hong, who spoofs many of the "wise old master" clichés ("I need your advice, Master" - "I'm afraid I can't help you. The game is not in the paddle, the game is in YOU; that's usually my big finish"). Maggie Q wears some tight & skimpy outfits and has 2 crisp, well-edited fight scenes - this film turned me more into a believer than "Die Hard 4" did. Christopher Walken is actually kind of disappointing here - not for his performance, but for the fact that the script gives him little juicy dialogue to work with (Max Zorin is still my favorite Bond villain!). The main lead, Dan Fogler, is on-and-off, just like the film: some jokes hit the target, some fall flat (the spoofy Matrix-type bullet-time effects have gotten pretty tired by the year 2007). Helped by quite a few familiar faces in the supporting cast, "Balls of Fury" is colorful, undemanding fun. (**)
Like Candy - Too Much Is Bad For You, But It's Good While It Lasts
posted on 12 Aug 2009Part of living a full life is indulging a guilty pleasure once in a while. That's my explanation (read: "excuse") for getting a huge kick of enjoyment out of "Balls of Fury"... and I'm sticking with it! The film borrows heavily from the plot lines of "Enter The Dragon", just about every 80s and 90s kung fu movie and (get this), at least 2 Will Ferrell movies! "Balls of Fury" replaces nunchakas and unrealistic sound effects with ping pong paddles and incredibly realistic sound effects. And all the while retaining a lavishly-dressed island-tournament setting.Dan Fogler is believable as the slacker with a huge responsibility, but is totally unconvincing as a table tennis wunder-kind. He's incredibly lucky though and not only for having to play a character called Randy Daytona (I mean how cool is THAT name?!). He also gets to be cooed at by an incredibly hot Maggie Q (being hot in ways I've never seen her be hot before - did I mention she was HOT?) A decent comic performance from George Lopez, whose head looks less distractingly over-sized for his body for once - well done, Costume Department! Diederich Bader, Thomas Lennon and even Jason Scott Lee also turned in delightful and in Lennon and Lee's cases, hilariously over-the-top cameo appearances. Christopher Walken was Christopher Walken, and getting more and more caricatured in every outing.But in my opinion, this picture belonged to the ubiquitous James Hong. He essentially reprises a role from a "Revenge of the Nerds" sequel and takes it up a good few notches. His ultimate triumph was to unseat, finally, from my memory this classic line: "to truly hawk a loogie, you must retrieve the phlegm not from the throat... but from the soul". In "Balls of Fury" he delivers a whole monologue that I am now moved to memorise in its place.You've seen a movie like "Balls of Fury" a hundred times, and one wonders if anything except a predictable financial return motivates filmmakers to keep producing fare such as this.But every now and then, on a lazy Saturday afternoon, you actually stumble onto one that you and your kids will be laughing about for the rest of the weekend.
Craptastic... Ugh...
posted on 27 Jul 2009I wanted to unwind a little after a long day at the University Library and so when I went to the local Cinema, guess what? Balls of Fury was the only movie closest to my desired time. Without second thoughts, I bought a ticket, went in and sat down in the middle-back of the theater without any expectations whatsoever."Oh yeah..." That's all I can say. The jokes weren't really jokes to begin with. Though original to some extent, I didn't find them that funny - and that's coming a lot from a guy who has a very wide sense of humor. All throughout the film, I think I only giggled ONCE (No, not laugh. Giggle.) I think the movie had two problems: One, the pacing of the film. Two, Dan Fogler.I think the movie should have spent more time on the tournament and not during the "training". Watching the final scenes, it was like the movie was trying to catch a bad guy or something. Everything was moving pretty fast. It was as if the movie had to meet a deadline and the crew had to finish the film during the last hours.In my opinion, Dan Fogler was awful in this movie. I don't know. Maybe it was the script or the director or whatever. OR MAYBE... It was his sideburns! I really think he could do much better on TV; like in a sitcom or his own show. But in the movies? I'm not really sure.If you are really curious about this movie, just go watch it on video. Better yet, why not wait for it on HBO? Watching it on the big screen is really not worth it.
Quite Possible the Worst Movie I Have Ever Seen.
posted on 25 Jul 2009Don't let the trailer fool you - this movie is as unfunny as athlete's foot.A lack of development, poor timing, low frequency of jokes, and overall low quality of jokes fills this picture. Other than that, everything was great. It's a shame, as I was really looking forward to this movie. The lead character, Dan Fogler, would really show some promise if he had a decent script to work with. Even the second half of the movie, which introduces Christopher Walken, fell very flat. Probably the most disheartening part of this film is that the jokes played in the trailer are not funny when put into context in the film. I could go on with the poor development (a predictable love story that develops in less than three scenes?), the beating of the dead horse (jokes that weren't funny in the first place being stretched over two minutes) or just the plain idiocy of this film, but I just don't think I can write about this movie anymore. I almost wish they would have just cloned Dodgeball. Bottom line: it was not funny. At all.If you must see this, please gather fifteen friends and wait for the rental. $4.99 at Blockbuster = about 30 cents a person, which will still feel like it was stolen from you, but it will never compare to the feeling that this movie is out there in this cruel world, waiting to make one person's life a little less joyous.
Good story, funny, good acting, great music
posted on 21 Jul 2009From the trailer, you can tell going into this that it is going to be funny/silly. So those people that are complaining about it and saying it was a waste of their time, did you even SEE the trailer??? Besides it being a spoof of Bruce Lee movies, and then to have Jason Scott Lee, who played Bruce Lee in the Bruce Lee Story in it...hilarious!!! Loved it! And those sex slaves...funny. Loved the music! I guess you can tell I graduated in the 80's, huh? I really enjoyed this movie. And any comedy with Christopher Walken is worth seeing, in my opinion. George Lopez just ADDED to the laughs, as he always does. I would recommend this movie to anyone wanting a good laugh.
"Balls of Fury" is pathetic ping-pong porn!
posted on 19 Jul 2009The people that created the hilarious Comedy Central cable TV series "Reno 911" have only marginal success with their new table tennis sports movie parody "Balls of Fury" (** out of ****), about a former ping-pong prodigy past his prime who helps the FBI nab the nefarious Asian mastermind that killed his father. Sadly, despite its inventive comic premise and celebrity cast, this low-brow farce depends on bowel humor and lowest common denominator jokes for its laughs. Okay, you'll smirk a lot at what masquerades as comedy in this lean but lame 90-minute nonsense. You might even snicker at the groaners, but you'll seldom laugh out loud for long. Incidentally, the "Star Wars" epics and "Scarface" provide the inspiration for much of the uninspired dialogue. The wit in the script by "Reno 911" writers Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant is as anal as it is banal, but the PG-13 rating prevents them from stooping too low. When was the last time, for example, that you saw a character in a movie get punched or kicked in the crotch for a laugh? Worst of all, chubby newcomer Dan Fogler looks funnier than he is——an obvious Jack Black wannabe with none of Black's drollery.As "Balls of Fury" unfolds, we meet clean-cut, curly-haired Randy Daytona (Brett DelBuono of "The Casket"), a twelve-year old who wields a mean ping-pong paddle. Randy makes it to the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, Korea, but he suffers a humiliating defeat from the paddle of his maniacal Soviet Bloc opponent Karl Wolfschtagg (Thomas Lennon of "Reno 911") and quits the game. Not only does Daytona lose the championship, but also his coach as well as father--U.S. Marine sergeant Pete Daytona (Robert Patrick of "We Are Marshall")--dies at the hands of the infamous Asian criminal, Feng (tough guy Christopher Walken of "Pulp Fiction"), because he cannot pay off his debt. Meanwhile, Feng becomes a legendary crime lord and strives to keep his identity a closely guarded secret. Nineteen years pass, and woebegone Randy grows up and out (Dan Fogler) to emerge as a lounge act in a small Reno, Nevada, casino. Randy keeps several balls at a time in the air with his paddle with expertise of a juggler. A guy with a talking cockatiel announces his act. Unfortunately, everything goes wrong for poor Randy. He solicits a volunteer from the audience to participate in a gag, and the guy drops dead from a heart attack because Randy's ping-pong balls strike him in such rapid succession.Enter the FBI. Agent Ernie Rodriquez (George Lopez of "Real Women Have Curves") recruits Randy to assist the Bureau in their Feng investigation. They want Randy to come out of retirement and win enough games so that Feng will invite him to one of his illegal underground table tennis tournaments held once every five years. The Bureau wants to bust Feng for international arms smuggling. Despite his expertise, Randy has lost his competitive edge, so Rodriquez enlists a championship ping-pong teacher, Master Wong (James Hong of "Chinatown"), to train him. The catch is that Wong is blind. Naturally, Wong walks into fences, looks the wrong way, and takes a nasty plunge down an elevator shaft. Wong makes Randy appear foolish when Wong's slim, sexy, athletic niece Maggie (the woefully underused Maggie Q of "Live Free or Die Hard") whips him repeatedly at ping-pong. Eventually, after an initial setback against Hammer (Patton Oswalt of "Cake Boy"), a trophy licking wiseacre, Randy regains his skill and Feng invites him to his secret play-offs. The losers here get a poison dart in the neck in what Feng calls 'single-elimination, sudden death matches.' Feng tries to tempt Randy to 'go over to the dark side' and join him in his weapons smuggling operation. Feng has designed an automatic pistol made of polymer so that it doesn't trip airport alarms.Clearly, writer/director Robert Ben Garant and co-scenarist Tomas Lennon are poking fun at the classic Bruce Lee martial arts masterpiece "Enter the Dragon" with their premise about secret ping-pong ball play-offs. The idea that a relatively harmless sport like ping-pong can be as lethal as a kung fu tournament is the source of most of the film's best humor. Some of the participants--who can spin these tiny white balls on their fingertips, crush with their fists, and slice and dice them with a hatchet--are amusing characters, too. "Balls of Fury," however, runs most of its humor into the ground as well as elsewhere. Our heroes must smuggle mini-flashlight sized tracking devices into Feng's Central American headquarters. These devices will alert their FBI back-up as to their whereabouts. Yeah, you guessed, they enter Feng's premises walking a bit off-kilter with their FBI suppositories. Another example of the lowest common denominator humor here concerns host Feng supplying his guests with exotic courtesans that turn out to be male sex slaves. When Randy tries to send muscular young Gary (Dietrich Bader of "Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous") away, Gary refuses to leave. He explains that Feng's towering bodyguard, Mahogany (Aisha Tyler of "Death Sentence"), a Grace Jones look-alike who uses a blow-pipe to launch poison darts, will kill him. Homophobic Randy spends the entire night with Gary playing a board game to keep from falling asleep."Balls of Fury" isn't half as funny as "Reno 911," though it does have its moments. This is Dan Fogler's first major role, and he hasn't been around long enough to establish a signature comic persona like co-stars George Lopez, Patton Oswalt, and Christopher Walken who parades around in some of the most outrageous outfits this side of Elton John and Elvis Presley. Altogether, "Balls of Fury" lacks both the balls and the fury to be the side-splitting sensation that it sought to be.
dull and not a money maker (which was the intent)
posted on 13 Jul 2009At the very least, someone should have said, fix the script, "it's not funny." Give up some money to fix it. Everyone looks bad, including the Asians. That's why Asians should continue to play villains 'til somebody gets in there who knows what to do. Maggie Q is cute from every angle. Be mindful of a limit. She can cross over and she needs to do it now before she gets stereotyped. On screen, she reads with a brain but if she doesn't show it soon ...Christopher Walken as always is a professional and saves what little there is. Likable Aisha Tyler is a talent and she's smart, but she needs to take more control. The nice surprise is that Jason Scott Lee can be funny. The German character gave it a good shot.What's George Lopez doing in there? His character works on his TV show, not here. Did the director say, just be George Lopez? The director deserves this criticism because Lopez' character has so much screen time. This is a director who doesn't protect his people or himself. Sad.
very fun comedy
posted on 01 Jul 2009I think this is one of the best comedies that I watched in my life. It was so so so funny really. I don't understand what people expect from this genre of movies - comedy. You want to think more for the film ? Yo think Balls of fury is stupid ? Yes, maybe you are right... but it doesn't matter. Stupid but funny! It made me laugh all the time! So many different situations, all the time it was interesting... not boring for a moment. If you want to laugh and not to think so much... this is your movie! If you want to think or I do not know what.... then this movie is not for you but I am not even sure if it is good idea for you to watch comedies. You must watch some criminal, drama, thriller... I don't know, you can choose. The other good point of this movie is that the humour is not rude like "What's up mother f*cker" or something like this. I hate such a language. The movie is also not so moral degradation to watch nude girls all the time etc. If you want to watch other super fun movie, I think this is "Rat race" ....these two films were equal funny for me, that's why I gave them 10 :) Other good comedy is "Hot Rod" but it is maybe for people with a little bit strange sense of humour :) I think that all people who rated this one with 1 are just stupid spoilers !!!! And they are the reason to write... p.p. Sorry for the language, I am not the best in English :)
Not as bad as I expected
posted on 19 Jun 2009I went into the theater expecting almost nothing good coming out of it. I read the reviews- Washington Post, USA Today, Rotten Tomatoes, etc. I knew they were horrible and quite honestly, I thought I would hate the movie. But my friend wanted to go, and me having no life whatsoever, I agreed to join her.I have to say, I should go into to more movies with such low expectations, because I really enjoyed it. Was the acting superior? No. Was the script well-written? No. But it was funny and Christopher Walken makes all things glorious, so all in all, it wasn't a bad way to spend a Thursday night after an especially terrible day of work. The actors all seemed to realize that they weren't participating in a project that would make movie history and they all seemed OK with that. It was very much a movie done to simply enjoy the play on the word "balls" and in this particular case, it was forgivable.Overall, don't go in expecting complete comedic genius and you just might find yourself laughing.
'Panda's dead!'
posted on 15 Jun 2009Yet another in an increasingly long line of minor-interest sports films based on the same formula employed by major-interest sports films but injecting a large dose of juvenile humour. Balls of Fury adapts the plot from Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon to tell its tale of Randy Daytona, one time child table tennis contender who is reduced to using his ping-pong talents on stage in a cheesy cabaret act. As far as this type of film goes, this one isn't as bad as I'd expected. I laughed out loud on a number of occasions, which is fairly unusual - I've noticed that as you grow older you find fewer things funny, especially when it comes to Hollywood's mass-appeal comedy.Lead actor Dan Fogler is a new face to me, and seems in danger of being something of a Jack Black clone. As of yet, though, he's far less annoying than Black, less prone to showboating, and makes quite a likable hero. Christopher Walken plays the villain of the piece, and he's pretty good; he looks like he's having fun playing the part and joins in with gusto with the determinedly childish lunacy of the plot. The film's running time is barely an hour-and-a-half, which is probably just about right; even though things are considerably less funny in the final half-hour, there's still just about enough laughs to keep things going.
Ping Pong Choker!
posted on 15 Jun 2009WELL! How should I start this!? Inevitably, I had the gut-feeling this movie was yet ANOTHER teen flick amongst the pile of 2007 'flops', but to my amazement, this one special and glorious movie, actually pulled it off!Dan Fogler, AKA; Andy Daytona, plays a forth-coming part in his role as the 'Ex' Ping-Pong champion of the nineteen eighties league, sure, he had his moments where the script lines became flared in my eyes (bit boring, in another sense), but overall, the overweight, sweaty and hairy actor actually pulled through the budget comedy without much hassle. Ironically, on the other hand, the infamous Christopher Walken, AKA; Feng, played perhaps one of the worst parts in his entire career -- sure, the man's trying to be a diverse actor, but the sensation of him taking this role in the movie, is more embarrassing than his short lived five minute scene in 'Pulp Fiction' harbouring a watch where the sun-don't-shine for a child (Bruce Willis, if you've seen the movie).In all honesty, the movie made me laugh like crazy at points - Why!? Because the British/English have a very dry sense of humour and this movie dictated that role immensely well and even at some parts in the film, the movie conveyed a somewhat dark comedy that had me wondering a little to myself. Overall, the Movie could've been better - without a shadow of a doubt, but for a quick laugh and continuous on-beat comedy throughout, the movie fails to not make you grin or laugh from beginning to end, getting a real good thumbs from me on laughter, but a big thumbs down on conveyed acting skills - particularly by those who've been in the trade for a while.
Starts fun but ends tiring
posted on 07 Jun 2009Admittedly, I have a bizarre connection to the sport of table tennis through family, and in such might have found some of the scenes disproportionately funny, but I do mean to stress only some scenes. Balls of Fury works as the cheesy ping-pong death match parody before it even enters it's clumsy showcase third act.In the meantime, obvious physical humor coupled with some well timed delivery, guided by an occasionally biting script (only in one-liners of course, as the overall script itself adds up to little more then that) from our friends of Reno 911 fame ensures a few well placed zings for multi-demographics. Low expectations may be key, but the movie should carry enough laughs to garner relatively successful reviews for the modest gig it is.
It knows you think it's dumb;it doesn't care
posted on 05 Jun 2009PIng-pong prodigy RAndy Daytona(Dan Fogler,as unlikely a leading man as they come!)has grown up under the failed ambitions of his youth to be a has-been,sideshow act when he is contacted by the Feds(led by a grimacing George Lopez)to infiltrate the racket of the mysterious Master Feng(Christopher Walken,far-and-away the best part of the movie).He'll need the help of the blind MAster Wong(JAmes HOng,having fun in a role written exclusively for him it appears)And his niece(MAggie Q,lean and mean!). Of course,there's added incentive for the one-time Olympic contestant turned wash-out:his hard-gambling father was one of the many victims of the nefarious Feng.It is Oh-so-tempting to give this film a higher rating for me,because I found this film genuinely funny and also wise enough to understand just HOW clichéd and unoriginal the film's plot devices are(a quick list: aforementioned washout re-finding his game,wise old sage teacher,the tough-as-nails female lead/potential love-interest for male lead,high-stakes tournament),hence my summary line. Director Robert Ben Garant and co-writer(who also plays arch-baddie competitor and Cold war German stereotype Karl Wolfstaadt)Tom Lennon create a crass but effective comedy. I guess why I can't give this anything better than the rating I gave it simply because it seems like this movie skimps on the whole plot,choosing to instead put more emphasis on the gags. THat's good for the film in a microcosmic sort of way(i.e.the laughs)but it doesn't distinguish itself from other,similar-themed movies(Kingpin,Blades of Glory come immediately to mind). Still,as a rent,this is a basically likable way to waste about 90 minutes to two hours of your weekend or holidays.
Waste of time.
posted on 28 May 2009This movie is a complete waste of time. This movie had the potential to be funny, but it failed miserably. The only thing that could save this movie was Christopher Walken, and he failed to deliver.Walken was the only thing that I was excited about, and the 45 minutes or so he spent in this movie was terrible.Something that really grinded my gears during this movie was the love plot. Randy likes this Asian girl named Maggie who is tired of "all the guys all over her", and she's also mad that Randy is the reason that her home was destroyed. But soon after, for no apparent reason, she falls in love with him and starts to kiss him. There was no explanation for this, but whatever. The whole movie fails anyway.This movie was not funny. I basically forced myself to laugh. If you're walking into this movie expecting to see a funny Will Ferrell movie or something along the lines of Anchorman, or even a smarter comedy such as Superbad, you will be highly disappointed.I give this movie a 3/10 because it had Christopher Walken in it, and because it had a plot that could have been used to much greater effect.Do not believe what this movie is selling - a laugh fest with your buddies at the local cinema. This is garbage.
Good silly fun...and a nice homage.
posted on 18 May 2009Well what can be said? The thing is you already know whether you'll like this movie or not. You'll like this if you like the kind of goofy stuff Ben Stiller, Will Ferrell, Jack Black, Adam Sandler, etc put out. This is not an "intelligent comedy", this is "silly" stuff, and it's quite good at it. Interestingly, this is also a somewhat of a spoof. Interestingly because that angle wasn't used in the marketing and because the movie spoofed is from the early 70s! Indeed the plot is mainly a spoof/homage of the Bruce Lee classic "Enter The Dragon", with martial arts replaced by table tennis, and let me tell you it's a hell of a lot funnier than the official "spoof movies" delivered regularly by the Seltzer/Friedberg duo. The cast is good and full of familiar faces if you know your stuff (James Hong, Cary Hiroyuki-Tagawa, Robert Patrick, etc...) and the laughs are aplenty. Once again this is a comedy with jokes based on people falling and getting hit, gay guys, pandas and Asian people, and if you know what to expect you should enjoy it. The only disappointing part to me was that there wasn't a ping pong match in a hall of mirrors (watch Enter The Dragon if you don't know what I'm talking about).
OK for a laugh - much better than expected
posted on 18 May 2009Balls of Fury is a fairly amusing movie. Certainly a lot better than expected and on a plane above the recent crop of so called spoof movies.Christopher Walken is good enough to lift this film a bit but so much talent wasted - although I think as the principal villain – he could have been a little more over the top. Dan Fogler does OK too as does veteran actor James Hong and game nemesis, Thomas Lennon.It is good to see that the writing, while not exactly brilliant, didn't rely on 98% smut to carry the 'humour' which seems to be the current trend in so called comedy movies of this type.
Worst film from 2007 so far.
posted on 16 May 2009"Balls of Fury" is an absolutely dreadful comedy. It amazingly would work better as a drama (not much better). With most films, I can find some redeeming quality. I looked hard and I this is what I found on this. The main character was slightly more tolerable than one would expect from such a poor movie. Christopher Walken was occasionally funny, simply because of his delivery...and well, that's it. Other than that, there are only negatives. Every joke could be seen by anyone a mile away. I could practically give the entire outcome of the film, including all the jokes, halfway through.The plot, if you can call it that, started off slightly promising, but quickly became too stupid. Randy Daytona was a ping pong child prodigy. His father bet on him, and he lost, so he was killed. 18 years later Daytona works at a bad magic show. He is needed by the FBI to catch a Chinese mafia criminal. He gets lessons from a blind man, and it just gets dumber from there. To go along with all of this, ping-pong just isn't an interesting sport to make in to a movie. It's repetitive and you can only do so much with it. I really hated this, and I have a feeling this will earn a well deserved spot in the bottom 100 very soon.My rating: BOMB/****. 83 mins. PG-13 for language and sexual humor.
miss it at all costs
posted on 14 May 2009This one is the one to miss folks.Not even the great one himself (Christopher Walken) could save this one. The lead character is at best painful to watch. Maggie Q was the only reason for me staying through the show. Stunning woman that Maggie. George Lopez, leave this OFF your resume there George. And for Jason Scott Lee to be in this show is reason enough for some intervention and immediate rehab! Get some help Jason!! I remember laughing once during the movie. Don't remember which part either. Sad sad sad. Previews are silly yes, but the movie isn't. Shhhhhocking!Anyhow ladies and gents I am only writing more on this subject due to not using enough lines and comments. Thank you IMDb. Now we must all bare the burden of reading the rantings of someone who went to this movie on his only day off this week and kiss $4.50 good bye. Not to mention an hour and a half I'll never get back. And who are these other people who did the other reviews that thought this eyeball burner was "hilarious"? Must be the director or producer. And if it takes 3 film companies to produce a movie, man you're in for a rough ride already. Hope I now used enough space so I can submit. Take care all.
'Balls' are held up by supporting cast
posted on 14 May 2009As an employee of a theater showing this film starting tomorrow, I got to screen it this afternoon after building it.I'd like to start off by saying the trailers don't do this film much justice-there is not nearly as much ping pong as advertised. Having said that, the film isn't any better than it looks.Dan Fogler does an all right job as the comedic lead, but at most points seems to be leaning on the much better supporting cast, including George Lopez and semi-crazed FBI agent and Thomas Lennon in another hilarious role playing a crazed German ping pong player with a personal grudge against Rob.The film has some very funny moments, again, usually from a supporting cast(look for Lopez's hilarious Tony 'Scarface' Montana impersonations), but they are often balanced out by some very weak and often cheesy/clichéd moments.All in all, this film is perfect for some laughs if you are bored one afternoon and have already seen all of the great films out right such as Bourne Supremacy and Superbad. A few laughs, the obvious clichés, and a little bit of action.Just go in with an open mind, and you could have a good time.3/5 stars
its not as bad as people are saying it is
posted on 30 Aug 2009you see this not being an intelligent movie doesn't have to do anything but what i thought after watching this movie was that i enjoyed it. on some occasions it made me laugh and thats what matters in a comedy. who makes an intelligent comedy and who doesn't and blah blah blah , come one people its just a fun movie so enjoy it with some popcorn or something. i just finished watching this movie and i loved , the only negative thing i can say about this movie is that the lead role was too much like jack black but in a bad sort of way . Just watch this movie without taking it seriously , and you will like it , its kinda like pointless fun which works for me.go see it for yourselfi give this movie 7 out of 10