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Stupendously silly but viciously funny.
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The reason Balls of Fury works as well as it does, aside from its low aspirations, is because of the charm of Fogler in the lead. Like Jack Black, but not as sarcastic, he brings a winning enthusiasm to the role.
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63The first movie combining Ping-Pong and kung-fu and co-starring Maggie Q. How many could there be?
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63If it's not quite the best Will Ferrell movie he never made, Balls of Fury is, at the very least, a lot funnier than it has a right to be.
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63Even at just 90 minutes, Balls of Fury - with its caricatures of the Asian underworld, with its G-man malarkey and gay jokes (Feng keeps an all-boy bevy of sex slaves) - begins to outstay its welcome.
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63The movie flaunts its ridiculousness and offers a relentless string of jokes about blindness, groin-bashing, and bodily odors.
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60The good news is that Christopher Walken, resplendent in purple silk, isn't the film's sole redeeming element. The bad news is that even his arch-villain can't save Balls of Fury from losing bounce as the story proceeds.
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The shtick grows a bit repetitive, so by the end of the story you may be checking the time rather than rooting for Randy.
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50The few jokes it does land can't make this more than a look-what's-on-late-night-cable event.
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50The real trouble is that it's supposed to be an outrageous comedy, but in fact it's fairly tame and not all that funny.
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50In the grand tradition of "Beerfest" and "Bladels of Glory," this insistently ludicrous -- and not entirely unfunny -- two-joke comedy satirizes an old Hollywood standby: the big-comeback sports movie.
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50Ultimately even the strongest characters deliver mixed results.
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As disposable as aluminum cans without the promise of a cash return.
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50A lifeless pingpong comedy that ricochets from one flat gag to the next.
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50Relentlessly silly in spoofing martial-arts movie conventions, Balls of Fury has roughly enough laughs for a first-class trailer but wheezes, gasps and finally goes flat through much of its 90 minutes.
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50This is pretty thin soup, but the players are spirited and the jokes generally offbeat.
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42Add Balls Of Fury to the list of movies that not even Walken's moon-man delivery and oddball comic energy can save.
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40Intended as nothing more than a here-today, gone-tomorrow zany entertainment, and at the very least, it has a good-natured, slightly raunchy spirit about it. But ultimately, it's a hollow enterprise, all ping and no pong. It doesn't bounce; it splats.
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40The nicest thing is the Asian American actress known as Maggie Q.
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38Balls of Fury makes "Dodgeball" look like high art. It'll be tough to crack a smile, let alone laugh, during this uninspired and sophomoric satire of sports movies.
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30A mildly entertaining reworking of the Farrelly Brothers' superior micro-sport parody "Kingpin."
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301. Balls of Fury is a movie about: a. A former table-tennis prodigy enlisted by the FBI to infiltrate the underground pingpong tournament of a legendary Chinese criminal. b. Suppository jokes.c. Little worth discussing and even less worth seeing.
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30Raunchier and somewhat more imaginative than "Hot Rod."
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25Mostly unfunny, extremely silly pingpong comedy.
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Steer clear of Balls of Fury for as long as you draw breath. Period.
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0A joke of a title in search of a movie with a single good joke.
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Positive: 12 out of 30
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Mixed: 4 out of 30
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Negative: 14 out of 30
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imedl.10
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SimonM.9It wasn't perfect but still I didn't feel ripped off.
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BDoty10Now this movie really only deserves a 7-8 but it really needs a 10 to get its average up.