This was one of those weeks I needed a lift from my DVD collection. Between a bad back, mild depression, and getting blasted out of my car because when I started it I forgot the last time I was driving I was listening to "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" and had left the volume turned up to 11... luckily, my little black tower of magic discs had just the answer: Balls of Fury.
Dan Folger is hilarious, and screw you if you don't think so. After watching this movie for the first time since I reviewed it I am convinced that Mr. Fogler makes the BEST "I've just been hit/kicked/other in the balls" faces. Not only are they hysterical they are brutally convinving.
The Good - Besides Fogler? Christopher Walken as the villain. Cameos from Patton Oswalt, david Koechner, Diedrich Dader, not to mention Robert Patrick reprising his degenerate gambler schtick from the Sopranos. Maggie Q, James Hong, and George Lopez give solid supporting efforts. And lets not forget all those Kung Fu in jokes.
The Bad - In a time where the R-rated comedy has been given a second chance at life one has to wonder how this film would have fared if they'd gone balls to the wall... so to speak. Not that this film isn't plenty crude. It' just makes me wonder what could have been.
The Last Word - I've almost watched this movie about a hundred times since it arrived in my collection. Now that I finally got waround to it, I'm sorry I waited this long to watch it again.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
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