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Balls of Fury
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From a slate of obscure-sports sports movie parodies (DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story, Blades of Glory) that were popular at the Turn of the Millennium. It is directed by Robert Ben Garant with the screenplay by Garant and Thomas Lennon.Nineteen years after a humiliating failure at the '88 Olympic Games against Karl Wolfschtagg (Lennon), former ping-pong prodigy-turned-trick artist Randy Daytona (Dan Fogler) is invited by FBI Agent Ernie Rodriguez (George Lopez) to participate in an exclusive tournament hosted by reclusive criminal overlord Feng (Christopher Walken).The film also stars Maggie Q as Maggie Wong and Robert Patrick as Pete Daytona. | |
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Trailers Always Spoil | |
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Trailers Always Spoil: Feng being a white guy played by Christopher Walken is treated as a surprise. But you wouldn't know it from every piece of promotional material. The commercials give away a general overview of the plot and most of the jokes. | |
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Little Miss Badass | |
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Little Miss Badass: The Dragon. Complete with Hello Kitty backpack! | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: Randy's first opponent is Patton Oswalt. Robert Patrick appears as Randy's father Pete. Diedrich Bader as one of the "courtesans". Masi Oka as the bathroom attendant is brief enough to match Stan Lee - he gets KO'd after one line. | |
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Not Just a Tournament | |
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Not Just a Tournament: As befits a parody of Enter the Dragon, the reason for the FBI being interested in the tournament is because of a crime lord funding it... and using it to draw the attention of unlawful people interested in his product, which is undetectable plastic firearms. | |
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Pec Flex | |
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Pec Flex: Daytona's first opponent in the tournament (Mr. Terry Crews) does this excessively. | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
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Bilingual Bonus: Averted. | |
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Sophisticated as Hell | |
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Sophisticated as Hell: | |
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Theme Music Power-Up | |
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Theme Music Power-Up / Miracle Rally: Averted Trope and Defied Trope: when Randy turns on a Def Leppard song to perform a power-entry to his match with Karl (after a much-needed and sports-film-standard Rousing Speech by Wong regarding Randy's need to fight with his off (and unbroken) hand), the Big Bad gets bored and kills both the radio and Karl. | |
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Never Heard That One Before | |
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Never Heard That One Before: People taunting Randy about the Disneyland thing. | |
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Actor Allusion | |
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Actor Allusion: Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa used to be in the same role as Feng. As Shang Tsung. | |
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Mundane Solution | |
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Mundane Solution: How does Ernie deal with a crime boss with an AK out to hijack his rescue boat at the pier? Kick the gangplank out from under him. | |
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Bad Boss | |
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Bad Boss: Feng in spades. He has Mahogany kill his associate, the Mysterious Asian Man, because Wong, Randy and Ernie were 15 minutes late to the banquet. | |
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Damsel in Distress | |
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Damsel in Distress: Beautifully Gender Flipped with the sex slaves, who do nothing but squeal and cower while they're being rescued. | |
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Only Smart People May Pass | |
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Only Smart People May Pass: Parodied. The directions to the rendezvous for the transport of the tournament are on the "Golden Racquet", as a Chinese riddle. Daytona seems to solve it, but then shows that the address was printed in English on the other side of the racquet, which nobody had noticed until then. | |
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The Unfought | |
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The Unfought: Karl Wolfschtagg is killed before he challenges Randy Daytona once more. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Butt-Monkey: Randy. In spades. You'd be hard pressed to find a scene where he isn't being mocked, physically injured, or accidentally screwing something up. | |
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Yellow Peril | |
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Yellow Peril: Parodied: Feng, played by Christopher Walken, is so white yet obsessed with being a stereotypical "kung-fu film crime lord Big Bad" kind of guy that only gets a pass because of Rule of Funny (and probably Pretty Fly for a White Guy). | |
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The Dragon | |
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The Dragon: Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa is the man who's been doing all the legwork for Feng, including kidnapping and killing Pete. Feng's female assistant, Mahogany, who among her other duties executes losing contestants with poisoned darts. For extra Shout-Out points, she resembles May Day. The best player in the local competition in the first act is a little girl who is literally nicknamed "the Dragon". | |
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Deceptive Disciple | |
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Deceptive Disciple: The Big Bad learned everything in how to become a master ping-pong player from Master Wong, but left before his training was complete and became a crime lord with a penchant for ping-pong death-matches. The incompleteness of his training becomes a Hoist by His Own Petard during his battle with Daytona. | |
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A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil | |
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A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil: Feng used to be Master Wong's ping-pong student until he got deep into the criminal business. | |
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Murderous Thighs | |
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Murderous Thighs: See "leg-grip-neck-crunchy thing" below. | |
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There Was a Door | |
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There Was a Door: Inverted. You could try to break through the armored door, but that's stupid when there's a window right next to it. | |
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I'm Going to Disney World! | |
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I'm Going to Disney World!: A dazed Randy says he's going to Disneyland when he is humiliated at the Olympics. Years later, when greeting Feng's audience, a foreign national breaks the silence with, "how was Disneyland?" making this statement an Old Shame. Master Wong later invokes the trope after falling down an elevator shaft due to his blindness. | |
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Serious Business | |
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Serious Business: "You killed him..." "Well, duh. What part of 'sudden death' didn't you understand?" Ping-Pong in general is taken very seriously in this movie. Also lampshaded: "This is where fortunes are won, or lost. I'm speaking hyperbolically, but you get my point. People bet on ping-pong here." | |
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High-Voltage Death | |
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High-Voltage Death: At the end of the film, Randy exploits Feng's weak backhand, causing the latter to be fatally electrocuted by his own vest. | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: Karl Wolfschtagg. He's anything but subtle in his gloating. | |
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When You Snatch the Pebble | |
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When You Snatch the Pebble: Subverted: we never find out what lesson the cricket in Master Wong's hand was meant to help impart, but it apparently wasn't "grab it as quick as you can." | |
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Faux Affably Evil | |
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Faux Affably Evil: Karl Wolfschtagg for Randy, and the Big Bad Feng as well. | |
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Dance Party Ending | |
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Dance Party Ending: A karaoke party is played over the end credits, with nearly all the characters regardless of whose side they're on (Feng, Mahogany and even his servant girls are here). | |
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Rule of Funny | |
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Rule of Funny: The only reason the "grave site under a water slide" scene works. Zoning laws obviously wouldn't allow for such a thing to be possible. | |
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South of the Border | |
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South of the Border: Although the compound and the Big Bad scream Yellow Peril, the place is situated "someplace in Latin America", and can even be reached by charter bus. | |
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Chekhov's Skill | |
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Chekhov's Skill: Bouncing ping-pong balls off of people. Also inverted in that the Big Bad's major weakness in his incomplete training is that he cannot reverse-serve a ball. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: Mahogany invokes the trope after Randy deflects one of her own blow darts back at her. | |
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No OSHA Compliance | |
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No OSHA Compliance: Lampshaded, at the end. | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
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Hypocritical Humor: Karl Wolfschtagg coldly mocks Randy and Pete over and over, laughing at his own jokes. When someone heckles him from the audience with "You suck!" Wolfschtagg meekly protests that insults "sting." | |
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Involuntary Battle to the Death | |
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Involuntary Battle to the Death: Randy discovers the hard way that all of the matches in this tournament are this, but the one that better fits is the climax, in which Feng forces Randy and Maggie into a match — one dies or both die. | |
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Gift Shake | |
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Gift Shake: At the end, Randy gives his master a gift. He vigorously shakes it before Randy has a chance to tell him that it's a new lucky cricket, which is now dead. | |
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Sadistic Choice | |
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Sadistic Choice: Feng's real endgame — pitting Randy against Maggie. Either way one of them will be killed for losing. | |
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Ass Shove | |
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Ass Shove: "We're gonna have to sneak this in the old fashioned way..." | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Feng's female assistant, Mahogany, who among her other duties executes losing contestants with poisoned darts. For extra Shout-Out points, she resembles May Day. | |
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Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh... | |
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Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh...: Subverted. Maggie repeatedly pummels a Giant Mook standing between her group and their escape route, only to have him gather himself and give her a look that seems to imply a serious ass-kicking is about to commence. Then, he falls over. | |
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This Is for Emphasis, Bitch! | |
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This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: Even Ernie gets a badass moment. | |
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All Part of the Show | |
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All Part of the Show: Randy is performing ping-pong tricks as entertainment in a casino buffet when he starts bouncing a ball repeatedly off of an old guy in the audience, even as the guy is trying to block it. The man eventually has a heart attack and keels over. A few minutes later Ernie visits Randy in his dressing room, and Randy thinks he's in trouble because of the old guy having a heart attack. Ernie replies, "That's not what I'm here for. Honestly I thought that was part of the show until the paramedics showed up." | |
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Mundane Made Awesome | |
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Mundane Made Awesome: Ping pong is portrayed with as much intensity as your average kung-fu fight. | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard: The Dragon ends up being killed by one of her own poison darts. | |
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Training from Hell | |
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Training from Hell: Naturally, as a parody of martial arts films. Among other examples there is When You Snatch the Pebble underneath. | |
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Action Girl | |
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Action Girl: Maggie, very much. She nearly curb-stomps a bunch of mooks on her own before being taken. | |
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Unsportsmanlike Gloating | |
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Unsportsmanlike Gloating: Randy after winning his first round in the tournament. Then his opponent is killed for losing. | |
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Casual Danger Dialogue | |
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Casual Danger Dialogue: Maggie beats 3 people in ping pong at the same time while also answering the phone to take a food delivery order, while sounding absolutely bored. | |
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Culture Chop Suey | |
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Culture Chop Suey: Feng's palace looks mostly Chinese, but there's Sumo wrestlers carrying his palanquin, and Feng's fashions make him look like Bram Stoker's Dracula. There's even what appears to be North Korean officers, but those are probably guests. | |
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Whole-Plot Reference | |
Balls of Fury / int_e303d198 | comment |
Whole-Plot Reference: To Enter the Dragon. Even the "Courtesans" scene is a parody. | |
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Ambiguously Gay | |
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Ambiguously Gay: Feng. His "courtesans" are all men. And they don't need to be gay for some reason. Randy hangs out with one like they were bros. | |
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Expy | |
Balls of Fury / int_e5421161 | comment |
Expy: Jason Scott Lee plays Eddie, the translator for "The Dragon," doubling as an Shout-Out to himself in Enter the Dragon and also as a Shout-Out to the urban legend of Bruce Lee fighting for the ability to teach the kwailo kung fu. "The Dragon" herself is an Expy to Bruce Lee, in this case in the realm of ping pong. | |
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Old Shame | |
Balls of Fury / int_e6c88e42 | comment |
A dazed Randy says he's going to Disneyland when he is humiliated at the Olympics. Years later, when greeting Feng's audience, a foreign national breaks the silence with, "how was Disneyland?" making this statement an Old Shame. | |
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Old Master | |
Balls of Fury / int_e7b1cb24 | comment |
Old Master: Wong. | |
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Exact Words | |
Balls of Fury / int_e9e35e8f | comment |
Exact Words: Feng demonstrates how evil he is by killing the first contestant that loses (played by Terry Crews) and telling Randy "What part of 'sudden death' didn't you understand?". | |
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Groin Attack | |
Balls of Fury / int_eaf5a1ac | comment |
Groin Attack: Happens a few times, including an incident with chopsticks. | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick | |
Balls of Fury / int_eef90616 | comment |
Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: "Congratulations, you beat the Dragon! Here's your money, too bad it's got snot all over it." He then proceeds to blow his nose on the prize money. | |
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Combat Parkour | |
Balls of Fury / int_f5b093c9 | comment |
Combat Parkour: Maggie uses combat parkour when she takes on a group of martial artists. | |
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Insult Backfire | |
Balls of Fury / int_f6f2ff1 | comment |
Insult Backfire: This gem: | |
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You Killed My Father | |
Balls of Fury / int_fb6b207f | comment |
You Killed My Father: Pete was executed by Feng due to his son losing match and him owing money to the Triad that he bet on Randy's victory. | |
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Mighty Whitey | |
Balls of Fury / int_fed07537 | comment |
Mighty Whitey: Though Randy is referred to by his teacher as "gwailo" (literally "ghost man" but taken to mean "foreign devil"), he is acknowledged as the only player able to beat Feng's contestants (and Feng himself). | |
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