Sports comedies are a hit and miss affair and, like my batting, mostly miss. Balls Of Fury avoids the obvious sports, like football or baseball, and goes for the lesser known, but very honourable, sport of ping pong. Unathletic looking Dan Folger is Randy Daytona, a down and out ex-Olympic table tennis player recruited by the FBI to compete against the evil Feng (Christopher Walken as an James Bond style Asian supervillain) in an Enter the Dragon style competition. This film is beautifully absurd, with overacting, overblown stereotypes, and just a little romance. It does for table tennis what dodgeball did for dodgeball.
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