Balls of Fury (Full Screen) PG-13

A huge comedy with tiny balls.
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  • Rated: PG-13
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 31 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: December 18, 2007
  • Originally Released: 2007
  • Label: Universal Studios

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Entertainment Reviews:

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 324,026
Rating: 1/5 -- A horrendously written and acted movie which even Walken can't save.
London Evening Standard
Dec 28, 2007
This movie is deadly.
Ebert & Roeper
Sep 4, 2007
We are stuck with a below average film that Walken almost single-handedly carries to mediocrity -- a feat that is appreciated, but not enough to forgive Balls of Fury for its many faults. Full Review
Bowling Green Daily News
Nov 21, 2019
Rating: 0.5/4 -- On some subterranean level, it's a study of how celebrity agents can coerce a talented veteran actor into participating in one of the most painfully unfunny comedies ever made. Full Review
Cinemaphile.org
Jan 23, 2016
Rating: 3/10 -- 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. Full Review
The Scorecard Review
Mar 3, 2008
Rating: 2/5 -- This comedy raises the odd laugh, largely from an absurd appearance by Christopher Walken as a sinister martial-arts kingpin villain. Full Review
Guardian
Dec 28, 2007
Rating: 2/4 -- While it's sporadically amusing, Balls of Fury scores fewer points for humor than it could have.
Miami Herald
Aug 31, 2007

Product Description:

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 Lennon) during the 1988 Olympics forced him leave the world of ping-pong competition in disgrace. Randy's life is a shambles until he gets recruited by CIA agent (Barry Lopez) to infiltrate an ENTER THE DRAGON-style ping-pong tournament (to the death), run by an evil triad leader (Christopher Walken). First Randy needs to get back in shape; enter James Hong (BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA) as the blind ping-pong master Wang and Maggie Q as his sexy, kung fu-fighting niece. While FURY is a consistently funny comedy it also manages to sluly infuse some intelligence and compassion into its steady stream of genre spoofery and lowbrow crotch gags (similar in that sense to Mel Brooks' BLAZING SADDLES). Fogler has an engagingly scruffy underdog-style warmth and seems to really connect with the older pros like Walken and Hong; there's the sense everyone had a good time making this film, which carries over to the audience. Director Robert Ben Garant knows when to speed up the action and when to give his actors room to stretch out; the result is a generous spirit where all the cast is allowed to grab their share of the laughs. There's also some awesome Def Lepard tunes on the soundtrack, and Maggie Q is one smokin' hot babe.

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  • UPC: 025193184825
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