Balls of Fury (2007)

Balls of fury

This movie is so stupid it's funny. these types of movies are awesome. i love slap happy stupid humor films. this movie will make you laugh untile you cry. it a pretty good film. October 31, 2008

Insipid time waster

This movie contains one fantastically hilarious joke, a couple of chuckles, and a slew of corny sight gags and banal "wackiness". However, the humor wasn't so dreadful that I was disgusted, and I was pleasantly surprised that it didn't sink to anywhere near the depths of vulgarity that most films of this ilk plumb, so I give it 2 stars. September 28, 2008

Good for a dumb movie

This has to be, quite possibly, the dumbest movie I have seen in a very, very long time.

However, that is not necessarily a bad thing. I don't think there was a single moment in this film that purposely wanted any smidgen of intelligence whatsoever.

And, heck, the reason I went to see this movie was because I thought it looked funny. And, guess what? I laughed. I don't know if this will go into the treasury of greatest stupid movies ever made, but it did leave me with a smile on my face.

I think it was because it was ping-pong. Yes, I like a good game of ping-pong as much as the next person, but come on. It's ping-pong. Just try telling that to these characters. The fact that anyone could take so slight a game so seriously cracked me up.

And that's where this movie works.

It's pointless, silly, and down-right brain cell killing. But I found myself forgiving everyone because they were so good-hearted in waltzing around with their idiotic humor.

No, it will probably not be nominated for Best Picture. But as for dumb comedy goes, this nicely held its own. August 31, 2008

Campy, cheesy, lame and ridiculously funny in parts...

While it's certainly not high cinema, it did have its share of gut-busting laughs... I liked a lot of the casting.

I'll grant you, a lot of the humor was sophomoric, or crude, or offered deadpan (which was funny in its own right in a few instances), and there were some slow, boring and/or predicatble stretches. But on the whole I generally enjoyed it (since I knew about what to expect). If Amazon did half points, I'd give it 3.5 stars. I definitely liked it more than Beerfest, which is rather similar but with drinking games instead of ping pong... I thought this one was carried off better and considerably funnier. August 19, 2008

"Enter the Dragon" with ping pong

"Balls of Fury" is a competent and amusing movie. As the previous reviewer put it, it's silly fun. It rarely provokes anything more than amusement - this is not a belly-laugh kind of comedy. But "Balls of Fury" provides laughs for 90 minutes and then fades to a bizarre music video that may be the best part of the film, and that's enough for me. Thomas Lennon and Diedrich Bader steal every scene they're in, with Lennon's East German ping-pong ubermensch being perhaps the best character in the film.

"Balls of Fury" is worth a rent if you're in the mood for a comedy and you've seen the other comedies on the shelf already. You'll probably forget you ever saw it two weeks later, but at least you'll enjoy it while you're watching it. July 31, 2008

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