Balls of Fury (movie)

I have to confess that Balls of Fury is a guilty pleasure. I actually like to watch bits of it.


It is a takeoff/spoof on those movies in which the world's greatest martial artists gather to fight to the death. Much of it comes from Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon.

Instead of martial arts, the contest is ping pong, and the "hero" is Dan Fogler, an overweight (or cherubic, as the IMDB calls him) entertainer who was beaten in the Olympics by a German rival. His defeat breaks the heart of his dad, who dies, and he turns into some nebbish. Then, 10 years later, George Lopez as superspy Rodriquez recruits him to participate in a sudden death ping pong tournament on an island belonging to Feng - the very American Christopher Walken. Feng is a gun runner.

It's Walken as Feng who makes the movie.

Overall I have to admit the movie is garbage, definitely devolutionary. But it just goes to show that some devolutionary movies can have good points. A very few good points.