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21 December 2007
This awesomely laugh-free Dodgeball rip-off, from the accursed makers of Reno 911!, relies heavily on the idea that grown men playing top-level ping pong is inherently hilarious.
It isn't. Tubby down-and-out ex-pro Randy Daytona (Dan Fogler) is recruited by an FBI agent to infiltrate a group run by Asian crime lord and table tennis enthusiast Feng (Christopher Walken).
Cue the predictable, yet quite outstandingly unfunny, Karate Kidparody training scenes involving an old, blind (sigh) instructor - who, oh so unamusingly, shags a man thinking it's a lovely lady etc.
Walken provides some camp relief, unblushingly collecting his cheque in a kimono/wig combo that would shame The Spice Girls on tour. But forget the 'Fury', this is just 'Balls'.
Balls Of Fury
Cert: 12A
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