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Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: ...there are plenty of funny bits, but the movie runs out of ideas long before its end Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: This is pretty thin soup, but the players are spirited and the jokes generally offbeat. Read more
Nathan Rabin, AV Club: It's never an encouraging sign when a comedy filled with talented pros produces only a single distinct laugh. Read more
Mark Feeney, Boston Globe: Balls of Fury also scores points, so to speak, for coming up with its own sports context. Talladega Nights had NASCAR. Blades of Glory had the world of figure skating. Ping-Pong has . . . rec rooms? Read more
Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times: Goodness, gracious, there's no greatness in Balls of Fury, a lifeless pingpong comedy that ricochets from one flat gag to the next. The only novelty it can boast of is that it's a sports spoof without Will Ferrell. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Balls of Fury is a stupid movie that's not quite stupid enough, or at least not quite funny enough. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: It's the kind of comedy that finds Asian people hi-lar-ious because they're...Asian. (Are you laughing yet?) Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: Christopher Walken has joined the legion of stand-up comics, student actors and bar-stool mimics trolling for laughs by doing bad Christopher Walken impressions. Read more
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: Something of a surprise, Balls of Fury serves up sports thrills and a good amount of laughter... Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Lennon, Garant and Fogler are masters of the prolonged punch line, extending a joke so far that it hits funny, whizzes into the stands, then bounces back. The same, come to think of it, could be said for their movie. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Christopher Walken does not actually show up in Asian drag until halfway through Balls of Fury -- not enough to salvage this mostly unfunny, extremely silly pingpong comedy. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Ben Garant fumbles the formula he's mocking, denying us the spectacular and hilarious matches that the story demands. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: While Balls of Fury is slightly more sophisticated in its comic strategies, 'slightly' remains the operative word. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Don't expect me to explain the rules and purposes of the tournament, if it has any. I was preoccupied with observing the sheer absurdity of everything on the screen... Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Ultimately, it's a hollow enterprise, all ping and no pong. It doesn't bounce; it splats. Read more
Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: The real trouble is that it's supposed to be an outrageous comedy, but in fact it's fairly tame and not all that funny. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: It's schlocky and tasteless but also good-natured and harmless, and the people who come out to see it will get just what they want: 90 minutes of freewheeling, switch-off-your-brain laughs. Read more
Kamal Al-Solaylee, Globe and Mail: It may look episodic and disgracefully low-budget in places, but there's also a theatrical quality in the way scenes are blocked, and punch lines delivered. Read more
Rob Salem, Toronto Star: The movie's big lug of a lead, Dan Fogler...could be dismissed as a poor man's Jack Black. Read more
Nigel Floyd, Time Out: CGI-assisted ping pong and lame gags about dead pandas, simpering homos and 'Antiques Roadshow'. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: The gags are either obvious, lame, ineptly timed or repeated so many times as to render them devoid of humor. Read more
Brian Lowry, Variety: Relentlessly silly in spoofing martial-arts movie conventions, Balls of Fury has roughly enough laughs for a first-class trailer but wheezes, gasps and finally goes flat through much of its 90 minutes. Read more
Nathan Lee, Village Voice: [Question:] Balls of Fury is a movie about: a. A former table-tennis prodigy enlisted by the FBI to infiltrate the underground Ping-Pong tournament of a legendary Chinese criminal. b. Suppository jokes. c. Nothing worth discussing. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: Nothing original, nothing outrageous. Read more