Balls of Fury (2007)
Average Rating: 4.2/10
Reviews Counted: 127
Fresh: 29 | Rotten: 98
Tasteless, yet harmless, Balls of Fury nevertheless fails to generate enough laughs despite its lowbrow intentions.
Average Rating: 4.5/10
Critic Reviews: 29
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 21
Tasteless, yet harmless, Balls of Fury nevertheless fails to generate enough laughs despite its lowbrow intentions.
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Movie Info
A disgraced former ping pong champion is drawn back into the world of high-stakes table tennis to carry out a top-secret mission in the feature directorial debut of Reno 911! writer/director Ben Garant. Far removed from the rigidly regulated world of professional sports, clandestine ping pong tournaments offer thrilling competition where only the strong survive. There was a time when the mere mention of the name Randy Daytona (Dan Fogler) was enough to make even those most hardened ping pong
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Cast
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Dan Fogler
Randy Daytona -
Christopher Walken
Feng -
George Lopez
Rodriguez -
Maggie Q
Maggie -
James Hong
Wong -
Terry Crews
Freddy -
Robert Patrick
Sgt. Pete Daytona -
Diedrich Bader
Gary -
Aisha Tyler
Mahogany -
Thomas Lennon
Karl Wolfschtagg -
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Mysterious Asian Man -
Brett DelBuono
Young Randy (12 Yrs. Ol... -
Jason Scott Lee
Siu-Foo -
Toby Huss
Groundskeeper -
Dave Holmes
TV Producer -
Heather DeLoach
Teenage Fan -
David Koechner
Rick The Birdmaster -
Kerri Kenney-Silver
Showgirl -
Floyd VanBuskirk
Old Man -
Jenny Robertson
Den Mother -
Patton Oswalt
Hammer -
Jim Lampley
Sportscaster -
La Na Shi
The Dragon -
Mather Zickel
Branch Director -
Jim Rash
Techie -
David Proval
Mob Boss -
Philippe Durand
Referee -
Masi Oka
Jeff - Bathroom Attenda... -
Brandon Molale
Male Courtesan #1 -
Guy Stevenson
Male Courtesan #2 -
Steven E. Little
Crazed East German Fan -
Cathy Shim
North Korean Attache -
Greg Joung Paik
North Korean General -
Eugene Choy
Gardener -
Matt Sigloch
Commanding Officer -
Marisa Tayui
Geisha -
Mark Hyland
Umberto Dinovi -
Justin Lopez
Wedge McDonald -
Irina Voronina
Coach Schmidt -
Darryl Chan
Feng's Bodyguard
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All Critics (132) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (29) | Rotten (98) | DVD (18)
CGI-assisted ping pong and lame gags about dead pandas, simpering homos and 'Antiques Roadshow'.
Top CriticThis movie is deadly.
While it's sporadically amusing, Balls of Fury scores fewer points for humor than it could have.
The real trouble is that it's supposed to be an outrageous comedy, but in fact it's fairly tame and not all that funny.
This is pretty thin soup, but the players are spirited and the jokes generally offbeat.
While Balls of Fury is slightly more sophisticated in its comic strategies, 'slightly' remains the operative word.
[Is it] good? Heavens, no. But it has its seedy charms.
Comedians like Will Ferrell, Jack Black and Ben Stiller can get away with lesser material because just looking at them can elicit laughs. Dan Fogler is not in that category.
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A horrendously written and acted movie which even Walken can't save.
A daft, disappointing comedy.
This comedy raises the odd laugh, largely from an absurd appearance by Christopher Walken as a sinister martial-arts kingpin villain.
It's a hodge-podge of Enter The Dragon and Blades Of Glory, yet infinitely worse than either. In short, a film about bouncing balls with the bounce of an anvil.
Cut a ping-pong ball in half, draw a large black dot in the centre of each then carefully insert around your eye-sockets- you'll raise more laughs than this film manages.
Enter The Dragon meets Shaolin Soccer meets Dodgeball - just with infinitely smaller balls. A camp turn from Christopher Walken astounds but it'll be funnier if you wait for the DVD and lubricate it with a six-pack. Or three.
Balls of Fury isn't quite as funny as it thinks it is, but there are some good gags and it's worth seeing for Christopher Walken's performance.
Bad acting, writing and jokes... Apart from a few funny gags that save this from one-star ignominy.
It's good natured enough, but laughs are thin on the ground.
In perhaps the movie's sole bit of irony, it completely lacks what it boasts so furiously--balls.
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A good-natured, easy-to-take goof.
There are just enough interesting characters, along with dozens of fresh ideas relating to ping-pong, to keep the audience along for the ride.
Slapstick ping-pong comedy has very slight bounce.
Ancient Chinese saying: tiny ball with no laugh, make bad movie.
Thank you. Try again.
Audience Reviews for Balls of Fury
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- Feng: Stop! This is Boring! Kill them Both! We're missing Antiques Roadshow!
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- Wong: Welcome to the underbelly of ping-pong where fortunes are won and lost. I'm exaggerating, of course, but you get my point.
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- Rodriguez: I'm from the FBI.
- Randy Daytona: Whoa man. I didn't mean to kill that guy. How was I supposed to know he had a bad heart?
- Rodriguez: Hey. I'm not here for that. I thought that was part of the act. Until the paramedics came I was laughing my ass off.
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