Title: mildly amusing at best
Product review: **1/2The humor is broad and predictably predictable in "Balls of Fury," a low-grade, though admittedly good-natured, sports farce that elicits roughly one laugh for every five attempts at being funny (not a bad ratio as movie comedies go these days, but not really high enough to make the film worth seeing). The plot, which is barely worth detailing here, involves a has-been table tennis champion (Dan Fogler) hired by the F.B.I. to infiltrate a ping pong tournament (a literal "death match") being hosted by a notorious underworld kingpin (played to the hilt by the one and only Christopher Walken). George Lopez, James Hong, and Diedrich Bader ("The Drew Carey Show") round out the likable cast.Despite a handful of laugh-out-loud moments and an air of genuine sweetness, there's no compelling reason to recommend "Balls of Fury," aside from Walken`s campy performance. My advice, therefore, would be to skip "Balls of Fury" altogether and re-watch "Airplane" or "Naked Gun" instead.
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