Balls OF Fury (2007) Dir: Robert Ben GarantLet me begin by saying that I have a very uncanny and unconventional sense of humor - even the smallest joke will have me in stitches. So when I saw the trailer for Balls of Fury whilst enjoying another daily trip to the cinema I thought this was going to be another Dodgeball-esque spoof, which would have me laughing myself into an early grave. Instead this film failed to excite the small child within. The creators Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon are well known for their works on Reno 911 Miami, a funny police comedy, shot in a style cleverly imitating a documentary. Balls of Fury on the other hand is a hopeless attempt to be classed as a slapstick comedy. The film opens with a sequence where we are introduced to 12 year old Randy Daytona - America's Ping Pong Champion. He reaches the finals of the Olympic Games but realizes his father has made a bet with Triads for him to win and little Randy loses focus, embarrasses himself and has to forfeit. His father is then kidnapped and murdered by the Triads and since then Randy has never played ping pong competitively. 19 years later, Randy (Dan Fogler) becomes a showcase performer as a "Ping Pong Magician" to a half-dead crowd
