This is pretty thin soup, but the players are spirited and the jokes generally offbeat.
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08/30/07
Balls of Fury (2007)
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Reviews Counted:126
Fresh:29
Rotten:97
Average Rating:4.2/10
Consensus: Tasteless, yet harmless, Balls of Fury nevertheless fails to generate enough laughs despite its lowbrow intentions.
Theatrical Release:26-12-2007
Synopsis: It's ping-pong played to the death in this balls-out comedy: Dan Fogler stars as pong child prodigy and Def Leppard-devotee Randy Daytona, whose defeat at the hands of a hissy East German (Thomas... [More]
Starring: Dan Fogler, Christopher Walken, Maggie Q, George Lopez
Director: Robert Ben Garant
Reviews for Balls of Fury
Just barely goofy enough to sustain its 90-minute running time.
08/30/07
Could a movie that mixes table tennis, spies and kung-fu action star anyone else but Christopher Walken? Probably not.
08/30/07
Balls Of Fury sweeps across the screen with delightfully wacko one liners per second, locked solidly into the genius premise of ping pong as a girlie game morphed into superjock rivalry between ferocious, sweaty he-men.
08/30/07
This low-level laffer seems set to bounce out of theatres in short order.
08/30/07
The surprisingly funny Balls of Fury's tagline may read, "A Huge Comedy with Tiny Balls," but it has some big, brass ones, too.
08/30/07
While Balls of Fury is slightly more sophisticated in its comic strategies, 'slightly' remains the operative word.
08/30/07
A loose string of emaciated ideas that probably cracked up the writer's room, but on the screen it looks sloppy and unrehearsed.
08/29/07
The concept is kind of funny.Christopher Walken is kind of funny.The only thing wrong with the movie is that it isn't funny, and that's bad news for a comedy.
08/29/07
Balls of Fury may be fairly specialized (How many sports-flick/martial arts parodies can you name, off the top of your head?), but even with that weird backhand spin, it scores more than a few points.
08/29/07
relies on so many kicks and blows to the crotch you might think you are watching some sort of strange DVD Mommy and Daddy keep hidden in the bottom of a dresser drawer with a weird leather mask
08/29/07
Balls of Fury is bad, but it's not really bad, and I suppose that's a victory of sorts.
08/29/07
Ultimately, it's a hollow enterprise, all ping and no pong. It doesn't bounce; it splats.
08/29/07
This is a one-joke movie, and it's a joke that's been done dozens of times before.
08/29/07
It relies so heavily on these short spurts of cameo comedians to keep the tired plot afloat.
08/29/07
The movie's big lug of a lead, Dan Fogler...could be dismissed as a poor man's Jack Black.
08/29/07
There are laughs in Balls, but not nearly enough of them.
08/29/07
...there are plenty of funny bits, but the movie runs out of ideas long before its end
08/29/07
Ben Garant fumbles the formula he's mocking, denying us the spectacular and hilarious matches that the story demands.
08/29/07
Christopher Walken has joined the legion of stand-up comics, student actors and bar-stool mimics trolling for laughs by doing bad Christopher Walken impressions.
08/29/07
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