Balls of Fury?????????????

Production Year: 2007 - Comedy - Director: Robert Ben Garant - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over more

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Dan Fogler stars as table tennis child prodigy and Def Leppard-devotee Randy Daytona, whose defeat at the hands of an East German (Thomas Lennon) during the 1988 Olympics forced...
more...him leave the world of table tennis competition in disgrace. Randy's life is a shambles until he gets recruited by a CIA agent (Barry Lopez) to infiltrate an ENTER THE DRAGON-style table tennis tournament (to the death), run by an evil triad leader (Christopher Walken). First Randy needs to get back in shape; enter James Hong (BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA) as the blind table tennis master Wang and Maggie Q as his sexy, kung fu-fighting niece.
While BALLS OF FURY is a consistently funny comedy it also manages to slyly infuse some intelligence and compassion into its steady stream of genre spoofing and lowbrow crotch gags (similar in that sense to Mel Brooks' BLAZING SADDLES). Fogler has an engagingly scruffy underdog-style warmth and seems to really connect with the older pros like Walken and Hong; there's the sense everyone had a good time making this film, which carries over to the audience. Director Robert Ben Garant knows when to speed up the action and when to give his actors room to stretch out; the result is a generous spirit where all the cast is allowed to grab their share of the laughs.

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Balls of Fury?????????????

A review by delc1234 on Balls Of Fury DVD
June 27th, 2008

Author's product rating: Balls Of Fury DVD - rated by delc1234

Did you enjoy it?	Liked it
Story	Good
Characters / Performances	Good
Special Effects	Good
How does it compare to similar films?	Outstanding

Advantages:	Quite funny, some cool table tennis scenes
Disadvantages:	A little too slapstick and saturated with too many jokes .

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

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I admit it is quite a retarded show. At first, I had high hopes for the humour level of Balls of Fury after hearing by friends putting it in good books. However, it was as nonsensical as its movie name. The show stars Dan Fogler, who acts as Randy Daytona battle through the ranks of table tennis, fighting players such as "The Dragon", a nine-year old girl and ultimately competing in a high level competition against a kleptomaniac who is being hunted down by the FBI. Full of slapstick humour and nonsensical lingos, this show is indeed funny but saturated with so many jokes that it gets boring after a while. However, it is quite a new concept and definitely worth a watch for a few laughs! Happy watching!