Balls of Fury (2007)

Director:

Robert Ben Garant

Writers (WGA):

Thomas Lennon (written by) &
Robert Ben Garant (written by)

Release Date:

29 agosto 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Comedy | Crime | Sport

Frase comercial:

A huge comedy with tiny balls

Plot:

Down-and-out former professional ping-pong phenom, Randy Daytona, is sucked into a maelstrom when FBI Agent Ernie Rodriguez recruits him for a secret mission. Randy is determined to bounce back and win, and to smoke out his father's killer -- arch-fiend Feng.

Plot Keywords:

Water Park | Testicles | Boom Box | Marine | Panda

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A fun, silly movie. What's everyone whining about?

Cast

Dan Fogler	...	Randy Daytona
Christopher Walken	...	Feng
George Lopez	...	Agent Ernie Rodriquez
Maggie Q	...	Maggie Wong
James Hong	...	Master Wong
Terry Crews	...	Freddy 'Fingers' Wilson
Robert Patrick	...	Sgt. Pete Daytona
Diedrich Bader	...	Gary
Aisha Tyler	...	Mahogany
Thomas Lennon	...	Karl Wolfschtagg
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa	...	Mysterious Asian Man
Brett DelBuono	...	Young Randy Daytona, 12 Yrs. Old
Jason Scott Lee	...	Siu-Foo
Toby Huss	...	Groundskeeper
David Holmes	...	TV Producer (as Dave Holmes)

También conocida como:

Pelotas en juego (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for crude and sex-related humor, and for language.

Duración:

USA:90 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

English | Mandarin

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital | DTS

Clasificación:

Ireland:12A | USA:PG-13 | Finland:K-11 | Singapore:PG | Malaysia:U | South Korea:15

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Rogue Pictures

Goofs:

Factual errors: In individual Olympic sports, competitors are identified by their names, not by their nations (as many individual sports would have multiple competitors from the same nation). Randy Daytona's and Karl Wolfschtagg's names would have appeared on the scoreboard, not "USA" and "GDR," respectively.

Quotes:

Master Wong: Maggie! Your temper brings dishonor to my happy mushu palace.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs Scarface (1983)

Soundtrack:

Balls of Fury

A fun, silly movie. What's everyone whining about?

What are people whining about? Balls of Fury was quite funny! A few years ago, the people who are now trashing this movie would have been going gaga and adding a 100 million to its gross revenue...but that's part of the problem. Tastes have changed.

I'm going to go on the record as saying that this movie is at least as funny as anything Adam Sandler or Will Ferrel has ever made. Why is it doing worse then? People just don't want silly, stupid comedies anymore, which is why Superbad is doing much better instead.

Balls of Fury is a very funny movie with a wonderful cast (especially Christopher Walken and Thomas Lennon), and if some of the jokes fall flat, or gave themselves away in the trailer, the movie moves quickly enough that it doesn't matter. They're already onto another joke.

Times have changed, and unfortunately for the movie, so have tastes. These days, even silly spoofs are expected to meet a required level of maturity, and for those that were raised on Naked Gun, Hot Shots and Police Academy movies, that's a little sad.

Go ahead, say the movie is juvenile. Say it's stupid. Just don't say it isn't funny. There were at least three moments during the movie when the entire theater was rolling in the aisles. I've never seen a SNL alumni movie do that.