Classic FunFest !!
'Balls of Fury' is a purgatory-pleasure of absurd, borderline offensive fun that will have you laughing and gasping in offended-comic schlock at the same time !! Christopher Walken provides yet another opportunity to ply his eccentric shtick as the Villain set in the "Cutthroat World of Ping-Pong". - Yes, "Ping-Pong !! Feel the smiles starting on your faces; they will only grow.
'Balls of Fury' represents a new hilarious attack in the gross-out comedy category following obscure low-grade sports & events; driven by talented casts for classic genre newcomers with laugh-spewing classics, like 'Dodgeball' and "Beerfest".
Walken provides some of many amusing moments in this film, "written" by Garant and Thomas Lennon, who previously installed 'Reno 911!: Miami' on us this year. Dressed like a garish cross between Elvis Presley and Fu Manchu; Walken plays Feng, a Ping-Pong loving Criminal Mastermind sought by FBI Agent Rodriguez (George Lopez), a desk jockey eager to make a name for himself in the Bureau.
To that end, Rodriguez enlists the reluctant aid of disgraced Ping-Pong Champion Randy Daytona (Dan Fogler), who's never recovered from his humiliating loss at the 1988 Summer Olympics to strutting German Player Karl Wolfschtagg (Lennon). Although Randy hasn't competed in years, he gets his "groove back", thanks to the grueling training regimen of blind Ping-Pong Master, Wong (James Hong). (These training sequences provide some side-hurting laughter; that may require the PAUSE button while you change your outfit "If You Get My Point").
Summoned to Feng's secret tropical lair to play in an Underground Ping-Pong Tournament; Randy faces the World's Best Players, including his old nemesis Karl, as he tries to foil Feng's evil plans.
Alums of MTV's The State sketch comedy series, Garant and Lennon carry the comic timing and ingenuity to sustain this feature-length film. 'Balls of Fury' lurches from one broad staged set piece to another as it crusades towards the loud and spectacularly carousing finale. The filmmakers aim for the lowest common denominator with crude regularity, which generates the hugest laughs. The actors never need to struggle in performing the comedy equivalent of CPR on 'Balls of Fury'.
Viewers inevitably come to love lissome Maggie Q, Fogler's love interest. A Tony Award Winner in his first feature film lead, it's great to see a beauty as poised as Q play her love scenes with Fogler's charm-free, corpulent beast (or hairy smurf) character.
All around; 'Balls of Fury' presents the copulent fun that requires no deep thought; just a will to laugh and smile. Proceed into the film with that at heart, and you are destined for the ride of a crude-swilling lifetime. A definate don't mis, that will sit amongst the classic comedy shelves; with other recent inductees like "Old School", "American Pie I, II, III", "Anchorman", "Dodgeball", "40-Year Old Virgin", "Knocked Up", "Superbad"....and more.
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