Thursday, February 28, 2008

Balls of Fury (2007) ... Wicked!

Source: DVD from SS2

A really REALLY crazy film ... watch it with an open mind, and you are likely to be tickled silly ... it really is a HUGE comedy with TINY balls :-) The one-liners, the slapstick and the extreme nature of what is generally a gentile sport made me laugh so loud!


Great characters in the film were played by ...

Dan Fogler ... Randy Daytona
Christopher Walken ... Feng
George Lopez ... Agent Ernie Rodriquez
Maggie Q ... Maggie Wong
James Hong ... Master Wong
Robert Patrick ... Sgt. Pete Daytona

and perhaps my favourite ...
Thomas Lennon as Karl Wolfschtagg!


I shall leave IMDB.com to describe this mad film :-)
In the unsanctioned, underground, and unhinged world of extreme Ping-Pong, the competition is brutal and the stakes are deadly.
Down-and-out former professional Ping-Pong phenom Randy Daytona is sucked into this maelstrom when FBI Agent Rodriguez recruits him for a secret mission.
Randy is determined to bounce back and recapture his former glory, and to smoke out his father's killer - one of the FBI's Most Wanted, arch-fiend Feng.
But, after two decades out of the game, Randy can't turn his life around and avenge his father's murder without a team of his own.
He calls upon the spiritual guidance of blind Ping-Pong sage and restaurateur Wong, and the training expertise of Master Wong's wildly sexy niece Maggie, both of whom also have a dark history with Feng.
All roads lead to Feng's mysterious jungle compound and the most unique Ping-Pong tournaments ever staged. There, Randy faces such formidable players as his long-ago Olympics opponent, the still-vicious Karl Wolfschtagg.
.. Can Randy keep his eye on the ball?
... Will he achieve the redemption he craves while wielding a paddle?
.... Is his backhand strong enough to triumph over rampant wickedness?

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