Misty's Review

Ball's of Fury

Okay, I admit it – I went to see ‘Balls Of Fury’.  I’m embarrassed just to write it down.  Please, don’t shun me just yet – I have a really good excuse.  It was my husband’s birthday and he got to choose the movie.  A very rare occurrence, but it does happen.  So it was either this or ‘Superbad’.  He ended up choosing the one that started soonest – lucky me.

The plot is pretty simple here: washed up professional ping-pong player is recruited by FBI to infiltrate the dark underworld side of ping-pong.  (Wait, that doesn’t seem too simple, does it?)  Our underdog ping-pong player is Randy Daytona, aka Dan Fogler.  And actually, he’s the high-light of the movie.  He really grows on you.  I think it’s because we all have that one friend who’s too old for cotton shorts and Def Leppard tee shirts, but we hang with them anyways.  I was kind of looking forward to seeing Christopher Walken too.  The previews looked funny and I thought there’s no way he’d do a dumb movie.  Boy was I wrong!  I mean, he did provide some pretty funny moments, but the ‘dumbness’ far outweighed the funny here.

You’ll be surprised to hear I’m giving this movie a D grade.  Cause let’s face it – I like just about everything.  But even I found myself sitting in the theater thinking, “Why am I sitting through this?”  

Take my advice, if you’re in the mood for comedy this week go see ‘Superbad’.  And a year from now when ‘Balls Of Fury’ is in the discounted gallery section of the movie rental store and there’s NOTHING else available, rent it.