Hey, Dan Folger! Jack Black called, and he wants his DNA back.
Folger gives a pudgy, wild-eyed, twitchy performance where he’s obviously channeling Jack Black. Folger plays a ping pong prodigy who as a child goes to the olympics, where his dad bets on him. He fails, and the mobsters kill his dad.
Flash forward a few years and he’s doing ping pong tricks in Reno in a dingy theater were he’s recruited by the FBI to infilterate a ping pong tournament run by the same criminals who killed his dad. The crime lord is played by Chris Walken who chews so much scenery that he could crap out enough props for a broadway play.
This comedy is a parody of Enter The Dragon and The Karate Kid. The funniest stuff are the training scenes with the great James Hong as a blind ping pong master. The hot Maggie Q plays the love interest but has little to do.
Is it me, or has Walken stopped acting and now he’s the worlds greatest Christopher Walken impressionist? What happened to the Dear Hunter True Romance guy? The man has an Academy Award and all he does now is parody himself. I guess with the films he makes now he doesn’t have to stretch himself. Being in multiple Adam Sandler movies is like putting a badger in your pants–you’re going to get a few scars to your talent. Balls Of Fury is an ok comedy, short, not too vulgar, and if you liked Dodgeball, you’ll like this one.
