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Movie: Balls of Fury
Jul. 29th, 2008 06:44 pmThe trailer for this martial-arts parody was laugh-out-loud, wet-your-pants hilarious.
Alas, when you take that same number of laughs and spread them out over a ninety-minute movie, it wears thin pretty quickly.
Yes, it's one of those - all the best moments were already in the trailer!
Christopher Walken seems to be having a good time, and James Hong is a hoot as the trainer. George Lopez, whom I have seen primarily as a comedian, was very solid playing mostly a straight man (I mean, the person who sets up the jokes), which I understand is much harder than being the funny one. Aisha Tyler is awfully good as a Bond-style henchwoman. The rest of the supporting cast does their best. But the actor who played the central character just wasn't that great, and the material, while sporadically brilliant, was mostly just not very funny.
But when it was funny? OMG.
Alas, when you take that same number of laughs and spread them out over a ninety-minute movie, it wears thin pretty quickly.
Yes, it's one of those - all the best moments were already in the trailer!
Christopher Walken seems to be having a good time, and James Hong is a hoot as the trainer. George Lopez, whom I have seen primarily as a comedian, was very solid playing mostly a straight man (I mean, the person who sets up the jokes), which I understand is much harder than being the funny one. Aisha Tyler is awfully good as a Bond-style henchwoman. The rest of the supporting cast does their best. But the actor who played the central character just wasn't that great, and the material, while sporadically brilliant, was mostly just not very funny.
But when it was funny? OMG.
