Product Description: No Description Available. Genre: Feature Film-Comedy Rating: PG13 Release Date: 18-DEC-2007 Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com: Balls of Fury will score points with anyone who ever wished that Enter the Dragon played out in the subterranean "underbelly of ping pong" instead of the world of martial arts. Tony Award-winner Dan Fogler (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), joining the ranks of Jack Black, Seth Rogan, and Jonah Hill as a schlub (romantic?) hero, stars as Randy Daytona, a Def Leppard-loving ping-pong wizard who, as a 12-year-old, was disgraced at the 1988 Olympics. Nineteen years later and gone to seed, he is reduced to performing a novelty act in Reno until an FBI Agent (George Lopez, and yes, at one point, he will proclaim, "Say hello to my little friend" a la Al Pacino in Scarface) recruits him to infiltrate an underground ping pong tournament run by Feng (Christopher Walken), the arch villain who killed Daytona's father. Co-written by Reno 911 colleagues Robert Ben Garant (who also directed) and Thomas Lennon (who costars as Daytona's taunting East Berlin rival), Balls of Fury is hit and miss, but it fitfully kills with some ace performances, including Walken, bringing more cowbell, as Feng, resplendent in silks and red fingernails (his Christopher Walken impression, while perhaps not as uncanny as Kevin Spacey's or Jay Mohr's, is dead-on). James Hong puts a wicked spin on the clichéd role of mentor, and action babe Maggie Q rocks as his niece. Look quick for David Koechner as hopeless entertainer Rick the Birdmaster, Patton Oswalt as an obnoxious early opponent, Kerri Kenney-Silver as a showgirl, and Diedrich Bader as one of Feng's imprisoned sex slaves (don't ask). With less go-for-the-groin humor than the title might indicate, Balls of Fury brings its A-game with some subversive bits of business, such as an ominous moment that is undercut when a menacing character is forced to re-enter the scene to ask for directions back to the highway. --Donald Liebenson
Campy, cheesy, lame and ridiculously funny in parts... While it's certainly not high cinema, it did have its share of gut-busting laughs... I liked a lot of the casting.
I'll grant you, a lot of the humor was sophomoric, or crude, or offered deadpan (which was funny in its own right in a few instances), and there were some slow, boring and/or predicatble stretches. But on the whole I generally enjoyed it (since I knew about what to expect). If Amazon did half points, I'd give it 3.5 stars. I definitely liked it more than Beerfest, which is rather similar but with drinking games instead of ping pong... I thought this one was carried off better and considerably funnier.
"Enter the Dragon" with ping pong "Balls of Fury" is a competent and amusing movie. As the previous reviewer put it, it's silly fun. It rarely provokes anything more than amusement - this is not a belly-laugh kind of comedy. But "Balls of Fury" provides laughs for 90 minutes and then fades to a bizarre music video that may be the best part of the film, and that's enough for me. Thomas Lennon and Diedrich Bader steal every scene they're in, with Lennon's East German ping-pong ubermensch being perhaps the best character in the film.
"Balls of Fury" is worth a rent if you're in the mood for a comedy and you've seen the other comedies on the shelf already. You'll probably forget you ever saw it two weeks later, but at least you'll enjoy it while you're watching it.
SILLY HARMLESS FUN! 2 1/2 STARS! 'Balls Of Fury' isn't a great film, but it has some very funny moments. Silly and harmless with some good comedic performances by Walken, Lopez and Co. It's a short film that's pretty easy to sit through, if your in the mood for this sort of thing. Lots of jokes about.......balls! If ya get my drift. ;-b
I should feel fury for watching it Balls of Fury wasn't really funny to me. It TRIED to be funny, but failed. It's about a man who gets involved in a tradition where it's believed ping pong is the most important thing in the world, and as a result, the man goes through tournaments until he meets the very best player.
Unfortunately, the story is WAY too goofy for its own good to really feel any positive vibes from the tournament as the man kept winning. In other words, you won't really care about the guy as he keeps winning because the entire story is one extremely goofy segment straight into another, and all the while NONE of it is even remotely funny. It's just a greatly exaggerated story that does nothing to keep me interested. Come on, if a ping pong player loses, he has to DIE by having darts shot in his neck? Or how about the scene involving the supposed "dragon master" of ping pong, and it turned out to be a little schoolgirl?
None of that stuff works for me I'm afraid. And nothing really happens with the ping pong aspect of the storyline. At least, not as much as it *should* be focused on ping pong.
It's best to skip this one.
Solid Comedy, if you are in the mood Reading the reviews I can understand why this movie can be funny. My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed it, but I could imagine someone not liking it if their funny bone wasnt working that day.
I would say if you liked these movies - Dumb and Dumber, Reno 911, Dodgeball - then this movie will be very funny to you.
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