Balls of Fury
Balls of Fury
PG-13 | 29 August 2007 (USA)
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Randy Daytona was a child ping pong prodigy who lost his chance at Olympic gold when his father is murdered by the mysterious Feng over a gambling debt. 15yrs later he's down on his luck and scraping a living doing seedy back room shows in Vegas; when the FBI turn up and ask for his help to take down Feng... who just happens to love Ping Pong.

Reviews
IslandGuru Who payed the critics
Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
Whitech It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.
Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
styxfan29747 Sit down in front of a mirror. Look at what you see. Take a few minutes. When the time feels right, ask yourself this: "am I a F*CKING IDIOT?" If you answered no and rated Balls of Fury less than eight of of ten stars on IMDb you have my permission to stop reading and close your laptop on your face repeatedly. Did that feel good? No? Now you know exactly how I feel when I see a mixed or negative review for Balls of Fury. "It's too mediocre!" "It's only intermittently funny!" "It has the shelf life of open Zoodles!"These are fun criticisms reserved for smaller children and those who sign legal documents with Crayola Window Writers. Only those who are of sound mind and have at least enough mental dexterity to succeed at the exercise "pour the juice in the cup" are capable of giving this movie an unwavering assessment. This is art. You may not like it, but this is how film works. Everyone commits to their role and makes themselves a cog in the machine that is Balls of Fury, from Walken's Feng to most of the other Asians. You have difficulty pointing supporting roles above the main cast due to the strength and impetus of each performer. Of course, this goes unnoticed. Was Kiralee Hayashi's spellbinding portrayal of Hot Asian Servant Girl worthy of a Best Actress winner? You bet your yogurt-swaddling suck pipe it went to Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth! Blasphemy.Have you ever laughed in your life? Not like you have when saw Steve Little as Crazed German Fan. Jokes with payoff? Civilian. Let the grown-ups talk. Can you think of one humorous Double Entendre based around ping pong balls? Too late, this movie came up with ten before the first eight minutes of run-time. Unreal. Is that Christopher Walken as most of an Asian? Outlandish. Name me one movie this decade, one show, one late-night personality that can come up with this. Awfully quiet now, aren't you?You can have your Godfathers, your Doctor Strangeloves, your Citizen Kanes. You have nothing. Balls of Fury is not a movie for you. A diamond disguised as a Friday-night burner to deter the weak-minded. If you cannot appreciate this film, perhaps film does not appreciate you.
schuster_mark I can't believe this title has a rating of 5.3. Is it the best movie you'll ever watch? Probably not. Is it a really, really funny movie that rivals ANYTHING funny out of Hollywood in the last 10 years? Yes!!!This movie is hysterical. What fantastic lines Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant wrote. I like this movie so much I bought it. I've watched this movie at least 7 times. It always delivers. I'm not going to give you the usual summary. You can read that above. What I will tell you is, if you like smart, intelligent comedy - with a little fun slapstick throw in, you'll love this movie. Dan Fogler is not one of the top 10 paid comedic actors in Hollywood, but you would never know it by his performance in this movie. He delivers more than any top comedy actor I've seen in the last five years. George Lopez is hilarious and gives one if his best performances ever. Maggie Q is phenomenal, funny AND gorgeous. Thomas Lennon, however, steals the show as German Karl Wolfschtagg. The performance he gives here is easily in my top-10 comedic performances of all-time. Yes, that good. The man is funny!Please ignore the rating on this movie. IMDb is usually pretty accurate, but I've found every once in awhile a gem falls under the radar. This movie is one of them. Is it for everyone? Maybe not. But if you like your comedy raw and in your face - you'll love this. If you like DEF LEPPARD, you'll love this!
junkdrawer1967 Caddyshack spoofed golf and Balls of Fury spoofs ping pong. It does it in the same witty, deadpan, slapstick style with which Caddyshack spoofed golf. It was hilarious. When this movie first appeared in theatres, all the critics gave it such a bad review that I never went to see it and hesitated to rent it. Now, that I have finally seen it six years later (!!), I can only surmise that all those critics had clearly lost their way AND their sense of humor. The plot is silly, but no-one goes to see a movie called Balls of Fury with the expectation that it's going to be an Oscar nominated film. The movie has plenty of zingers and great one-liners that had me laughing out loud. Even the visuals were fantastically funny. Honestly, this was slapstick at its best. If you enjoyed a movie like Caddyshack back in the day, you will most certainly enjoy this.
artemkelly Don't choose a movie by looking at the cast list! Can't really believe that this was a serious attempt at making a movie and the sad thing is the amount of good that could have been done in the world with the money that was wasted making this tripe. It has no redeeming features.BTW. No problem with not writing a spoiler for this one as I never got to the end.This is the first review I have written as I am only starting to use IMCb, an excellent resource badly let down by reviews that could rate this movie so highly.Regards