Balls of Fury (2007) Movie Review, Trailer, Film Still and Poster

USA 2007
Director: Robert Ben Garant
Cast: Dan Fogler, Christopher Walken, Maggie Q, James Hong, George Lopez, Thomas Lennon, Jason Scott Lee
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: 29 August 2007
Running Time: 1 hour 30 minutes

The Movie Review

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My Balls!!!!


BALLS Of FURY
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Balls of Fury is a comedy movie with slapstick and clean jokes but still entertaining enough and that everyone can pretty much guess how it ends. You do not need to think hard or analyze the plot, just enjoy its flow. on the whole it’s about ping-pong! That’s what the word “Balls” stands for (well, more or less). You got Chinese, Caucasians, Mexicans, Germans, Afro Americans, and Japanese in one package. I could say it’s like seeing “Bloodsport (1988)” meets “Ping-Pong”. At the core, Balls of Fury is a parody of the 1973 Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon.

It revolves around a guy starred by Dan Fogler as Randy Daytona who plummeted to the down-side of his life since his loss in a Ping-Pong tournament against Karl Wolfschtagg a snobbish contender when Randy was a kid. He now only entertains people in some kind of restaurant which noticeably ignore him. Until one day an FBI agent Ernie Rodriguez asks him to help on a mission by simply (of course you already guess) playing Ping-Pong in a Mysterious Ping-Pong tournament held by sort of Chinese triad leader named Feng (Christopher Walken). And so the journey of the ball begins.

Pretty much some of the jokes and scenes in this movie are moth-eaten ones. Like when our chubby champion has to become a pupil or when he has to defeat his first opponent to prove his come-back or defeat himself (like in “Karate Kid”). But all of those things although kinda dull blended harmoniously with the situation and the help of Christopher Walken who acts as usual with his own unique style of sudden pause in a dialogue. This is not a movie with a regular joke plot, no. There are some scenes that really unpredicted, of course except for those veteran moviegoers out there.

Arguably a kinda comedy film that won’t be memorable for a long time, in-fact you will forget it before long but nevertheless it’s quite fun to see a comedy that doesn’t include people who tries to make people laugh by making creepy-supposed-to-be-funny facial expressions. If only they had developed the jokes more, but then again it would probably be granted R by the MPAA. Balls of Fury will definitely be my choice to watch it with the young ones.

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