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Balls of Fury (2007)
Director: Robert Ben Garant
Movie review
From Time Out Chicago
What Blades of Glory is to figure skating and Dodgeball is to dodgeball, Balls of Fury aspires to be for ping-pong. Jokes are lobbed recklessly in all directions, but only a few manage to hit. A good five minutes of script discussion must have gone into the Karate Kid–by-way-of–Gymkata storyline, and the racial stereotypes—faded ’80s table tennis star Fogler learns from a blind, aphorism-spouting Chinese man (Hong)—are, to put it mildly, politically incorrect. Things pick up slightly once Walken turns up as a self-made warlord named Feng; the character is funny not because of anything in the screenplay, but because he’s played by Christopher Walken.Author: Ben Kenigsberg
Time Out Chicago
Cast & crew
Director: Robert Ben Garant
Cast: Thomas Lennon, Dan Fogler, Christopher Walken, Maggie Q, George Lopez, Diedrich Bader, Robert Patrick, Aisha Tyler, David Koechner, Patton Oswalt, James Hong full cast
Genre(s): Action/Adventure, Comedy
Rated: PG-13
Duration: 90 mins
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