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(1 - 30) of 30 OFCS Rating: 13% Rotten Page   1   B- "Balls of Fury loses some steam as it enters its second half, but it never comes close to derailing thanks to the impressive Ping-Pong action and Walken's increasingly weird Feng."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark 3.5/5 "Right, you guessed it. It is Enter the Dragon with dorks."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron D- "A loose string of emaciated ideas that probably cracked up the writer's room, but on the screen it looks sloppy and unrehearsed."   eFilmCritic.com   Brian Orndorf 2/5 "The film's inconsequentiality isn't a matter of pedigree; it's a matter of effort"   Filmcritic.com   Chris Cabin 2/5 "It relies so heavily on these short spurts of cameo comedians to keep the tired plot afloat."   Filmcritic.com   Chris Cabin 66/100 "While it's at times inspired, ultimately, its attempt to play with the conventions of both martial arts and sports films does not congeal into something memorable."   Apollo Guide   Dan Jardine 2/5 "Thanks to a sloppy, anemic script and indifferent direction, 'Balls of Fury' lacks the stones to be genuinely entertaining."   eFilmCritic.com   Dan Lybarger A- "Martial arts hysteria, ping-pong wit, and even a bevy of gay sex slaves. What's not to love?"   EDGE Boston   David Foucher 1/4 "Balls of Fury is precisely the kind of dud that gives a bad name to films opening over the lazy Labor Day weekend."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman C "An Enter the Dragon parody? Really? Did it take 34 years to come up with a really good premise?"   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider "In perhaps the movie's sole bit of irony, it completely lacks what it boasts so furiously--balls."   DVD Review   Felix Gonzalez Jr. 2/4 "Look, it could have been worst if the premise involved yak racing so we need to thank our lucky stars...[this] paddle-swinging piece of piffle leaves much to be desired."   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng F "This awful slapstick martial-arts tournament send-up is all bad ideas and worse execution."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/4 "Balls of Fury may be fairly specialized (How many sports-flick/martial arts parodies can you name, off the top of your head?), but even with that weird backhand spin, it scores more than a few points."   Cinematical   James Rocchi 5/10 "Has its moments, but a little too often the comedy runs into this problem of starting with the punchline and then chewing it until it runs out of flavor."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Jeffrey Chen 1.5/5 "i straight to DVDila poy soy myrize stin proheirotita toy montaz kai tis skinothesias, kapelonei olo to synolo mehri to bareto finale"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis "Go see something else."   3BlackChicks Review   Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel 1.5/5 "Too many scenes...are left to pitter out on screen with the punch-line power of a bad SNL sketch. It's no wonder that the humor in the film doesn't go past jokes about balls."   Film School Rejects   Kevin Carr 0.5/3 "Pelotas en juego es un sinsentido que va pasando por los tópicos del género de deportes/artes marciales como quien pasa el dedo por la lista de la compra."   Off-Off-Critica   MalaBesta 2/4 "When [the jokes] should be riotously funny, they're merely amusing; when they should at least get a chuckle, they're just dead spots."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik "Funnily enough, though -- and it's the only thing funny about this dreadful excuse for a comedy -- the movie itself has tiny balls. It's got no nerve, no guts, no daring... no balls."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2/4 "Without a particularly funny nor compelling lead, the hits in the already scattershot script are weakened, to say nothing of the misses."   Mr. Brown's Movies   Michael Dequina 1.5/4 "To put this miscalculation in terms the filmmakers will understand, they don't Armageddon it."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 3/5 "I can't say that it is some kind of comedy classic or that it even rises above the classification of "fitfully amusing" but I will say that I found myself laughing more often than I might have imagined possible"   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski C- "Balls of Fury is bad, but it's not really bad, and I suppose that's a victory of sorts."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux 6/10 "Try as he might, Director Garant cannot bring a winning performance out of this summertime silliness. Ping pong remains in disfavor as of the dog days of August."   Monsters and Critics   Ron Wilkinson 0/4 "crap"   sbs.is   Stefan Birgir Stefansson "Ultimately, it's a hollow enterprise, all ping and no pong. It doesn't bounce; it splats."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 3/10 "It's like a 'Saturday Night Live' skit stretched out to a cheesy, mind-numbing 90 minutes."   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger 1/4 "A top contender for the summer's worst comedy..."   Reel.com   Timothy Knight  (1 - 30) of 30 OFCS Rating: 13% Rotten Page   1