This movie is deadly.
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09/04/07
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Balls of Fury (2007)
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Reviews Counted:23
Fresh:8
Rotten:15
Average Rating:4.6/10
Consensus: Tasteless, yet harmless, Balls of Fury nevertheless fails to generate enough laughs despite its lowbrow intentions.
Theatrical Release:Aug 29, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $32,844,290
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
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Reviews for Balls of Fury
Top CriticThe real trouble is that it's supposed to be an outrageous comedy, but in fact it's fairly tame and not all that funny.
08/30/07
Top CriticThis is pretty thin soup, but the players are spirited and the jokes generally offbeat.
08/30/07
Top CriticWhile Balls of Fury is slightly more sophisticated in its comic strategies, 'slightly' remains the operative word.
08/30/07
Top CriticUltimately, it's a hollow enterprise, all ping and no pong. It doesn't bounce; it splats.
08/29/07
Top CriticThe movie's big lug of a lead, Dan Fogler...could be dismissed as a poor man's Jack Black.
08/29/07
Top CriticChristopher 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
Top CriticSomething of a surprise, Balls of Fury serves up sports thrills and a good amount of laughter...
08/29/07
Top CriticIt's schlocky and tasteless but also good-natured and harmless, and the people who come out to see it will get just what they want: 90 minutes of freewheeling, switch-off-your-brain laughs.
08/29/07
Top CriticBalls of Fury is a stupid movie that's not quite stupid enough, or at least not quite funny enough.
08/29/07
Top CriticDon’t expect me to explain the rules and purposes of the tournament, if it has any. I was preoccupied with observing the sheer absurdity of everything on the screen...
08/29/07
Top CriticChristopher Walken does not actually show up in Asian drag until halfway through Balls of Fury -- not enough to salvage this mostly unfunny, extremely silly pingpong comedy.
08/29/07
Top CriticThe gags are either obvious, lame, ineptly timed or repeated so many times as to render them devoid of humor.
08/29/07
Top CriticNothing original, nothing outrageous.
08/29/07
Top CriticGoodness, gracious, there's no greatness in Balls of Fury, a lifeless pingpong comedy that ricochets from one flat gag to the next. The only novelty it can boast of is that it's a sports spoof without Will Ferrell.
08/29/07
Top CriticLennon, Garant and Fogler are masters of the prolonged punch line, extending a joke so far that it hits funny, whizzes into the stands, then bounces back. The same, come to think of it, could be said for their movie.
08/29/07
Top CriticBalls of Fury also scores points, so to speak, for coming up with its own sports context. Talladega Nights had NASCAR. Blades of Glory had the world of figure skating. Ping-Pong has . . . rec rooms?
08/29/07
Top CriticIt may look episodic and disgracefully low-budget in places, but there's also a theatrical quality in the way scenes are blocked, and punch lines delivered.
08/29/07
Top CriticIt's the kind of comedy that finds Asian people hi-lar-ious because they're...Asian. (Are you laughing yet?)
08/29/07
Top CriticBalls of Fury is raunchier and somewhat more imaginative than Hot Rod, and it will be must viewing for Christopher Walken completists.
08/29/07
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