2008 Woodie Awards
Goodness, Gracious, Great Balls of Fury
By Konrad Klett
9/10/07 - Features
Balls of Fury is going to be a cult classic. It will not become popular. It is doing terribly at the box office and unfortunately I do not think it will do better in the future either. For the connoisseur of silly films (as well as serious ones) this movie is definitely something special.
First of all, if you have not seen Dragon, the Bruce Lee Story (the remake version with Jason Scott Lee) as well as Enter the Dragon (which actually starred Bruce Lee) already, go and see them before you see Balls of Fury.
Not only are those two great movies in their own right, but there are various parodies done in Balls of Fury of those two movies. Regardless of my previous statement, this movie is hilarious.
Okay, if you don't like Dumb and Dumber or Adam Sandler movies, you won't like this. If you do like those, or better yet such ridiculousness as Monty Python's various creations, you will most indubitably like this film.
To start with, the movie is about ping pong, also known as table tennis. The main character competes all over the world in a blown-out-of-proportion plot to save the world.
Fortunately the "plot," if you can call it that, has numerous surprises so that people with ADD can watch it without getting too bored. (Trust me, I know!) It has a lot of off-the-wall and physical comedy. While it does have dirty jokes in it, it is more ridiculous for the sake of being ridiculous than a movie like Austin Powers, which is essentially a series of jokes about sex.
There are not too many big names, except for the legendary Christopher Walkin, of course, but there are quite a few notable characters in it which many of you will recognize from other movies as well as TV.
Christopher Walkin was bloody amazing, by the way. If the entire movie had just been a clip show of only his scenes, it still would have been uproariously entertaining. Overall this movie was great. If you don't like stupid humor, you won't like this; but who doesn't like stupid humor?
First of all, if you have not seen Dragon, the Bruce Lee Story (the remake version with Jason Scott Lee) as well as Enter the Dragon (which actually starred Bruce Lee) already, go and see them before you see Balls of Fury.
Not only are those two great movies in their own right, but there are various parodies done in Balls of Fury of those two movies. Regardless of my previous statement, this movie is hilarious.
Okay, if you don't like Dumb and Dumber or Adam Sandler movies, you won't like this. If you do like those, or better yet such ridiculousness as Monty Python's various creations, you will most indubitably like this film.
To start with, the movie is about ping pong, also known as table tennis. The main character competes all over the world in a blown-out-of-proportion plot to save the world.
Fortunately the "plot," if you can call it that, has numerous surprises so that people with ADD can watch it without getting too bored. (Trust me, I know!) It has a lot of off-the-wall and physical comedy. While it does have dirty jokes in it, it is more ridiculous for the sake of being ridiculous than a movie like Austin Powers, which is essentially a series of jokes about sex.
There are not too many big names, except for the legendary Christopher Walkin, of course, but there are quite a few notable characters in it which many of you will recognize from other movies as well as TV.
Christopher Walkin was bloody amazing, by the way. If the entire movie had just been a clip show of only his scenes, it still would have been uproariously entertaining. Overall this movie was great. If you don't like stupid humor, you won't like this; but who doesn't like stupid humor?
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