Balls of Fury
CS Rating: Up there with Harold and Kumar
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0424823/
If you've seen the commercial, you've seen about 75% of the jokes in the movie and that's pretty lame. A lot of fellow reviewers felt as disappointed as I did but I didn't hate the movie. I still laughed. I've seen that commercial 100's of times and laughed everytime and the actual scenes were still funny... just wish I hadn't seen the commercial first. The 25% you haven't seen is just as funny if not funnier and if you can't wait for video, might not be a waste of money if you get a good group of friends to go with you.
The cast is fantastic and plays the stupidity well. This movie is stupid like Harold & Kumar was stupid but in that is the humor. It's got it's basic premise and it runs it into the wall. Randy Daytona (Dan Fogler) is enlisted by the FBI to help ensnare an organized crime lord (Walken) that runs underground deadly ping pong matches.
Randy, although once a master ping pong player as a kid is rusty and needs training. Enter Master Wong the blind teacher (James Hong) and his smoking hot niece Maggie Wong (Maggie Q). Wong and Wong train Randy in the typical training montage and somewhere -- it's not clear where -- Maggie Wong falls for Randy.
From there it's off the big game and I'll leave the rest unspoiled as some of the funniest stuff comes once the characters are at Feng's palace.
Christopher Walken is great as Feng, but when is Walken not just awesome to watch? He's very funny.
Maggie Q sticks out like a sore thumb due to her stunning beauty and martial arts skills which come as a welcome surprise. You may have seen her in Die Hard 4 or Mission Impossible 3. She had wanted to try something out of character and this is certainly it, but thankfully she still gets to show off her... well everything. She's not nude - but she doesn't need to be.
The plot is weak but what do you expect from a ping pong movie called "Balls of Fury"? What you should expect is a pretty decent stoner comedy that I'm sure will warrent many a repeated viewings once added to any DVD collection. If you enjoy Reno 911, Dodgeball, Harold and Kumar - you'll enjoy this I think.
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Helena Bonham Carter is returning to reprise her role as the Death Eater Bellatrix Lestrange. Considering the Harry Potter series' amazing continuity standards this isn't much of a surprise but it's nice to know she's officially signed on and will be shooting in the spring of '08.
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is due in theaters Nov. 2008.
The pics below are from Helena's Maxim shoot a few years back. Tim Burton's a lucky guy and I'm sure he knows it!
Source: ComingSoon.net
The Italian Magazine Fotogramas has given us yet another great pic of Jessica Beil in a bikini. This time on the cover of their July 2007 issue. Earlier this year we also had that fantastic GQ shoot. Click here if you missed that.
Someone needs to make a wallpaper out of this one~
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