Balls of Fury (2007)

Good concept, poorly executed.

A different way of telling a story

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Humor is subjective, but to me this movie is both fun and funny. Not to mention a great tribute/parody on the karate flicks, primarily Enter the Dragon, that it mimics. I often use it to lighten a bad mood.I think part of the reason it's rated so low is that a lot of viewers may not be familiar with the old-school martial arts films and not get the premise, and/or the references. If you don't, I can imagine a lot of the humor whizzing right past you.Let's put it another way. If you don't think the idea of a ping-pong underworld and ping-pong death matches is funny, you may not like the movie. If you do, watch. I think Dan Fogler is brilliant, as are nearly all the bit players.It's over the top, but in a friendly sort of fashion. Don't dismiss it because of the low rating.

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.

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

I have yet to finish watching this DVD, but already I can see where the movie went wrong. Not to take anything away from Mr. Fogler whose credentials are impressive and talent obvious, but he is miscast in this movie. Sandler would have at least made the relationship part with Maggie Q a little more acceptable. She is hot and the fat comic getting the hot chick is so lame it reeks. It's also becoming stereotypical these daze. I think the mistake that takes everything else off course is the tone of approach to making this movie. It needed just a little more believability. Like any fiction the more believable the story the more successful the movie or book. This movie had too much silly, which seems to be the current generation's idea of comedy. Try subtlety. It would be a lot better. Silly, insults your audience and makes us feel dumbed down. We deserve better.It kinda wasted the talents of Christopher Walken, James Hong, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa among others. A good concept, but poor execution . . .