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Balls of Fury

Advantages: Silly humour, Easy to follow.
Disadvantages: Jokes of a good quality are few and far between

I brought balls of fury after seeing an amusing trailer and it being £3 in a sale! The Story ------------- Randy Daytona is a childhood genius when it come to the art of ping pong, Although making it to the 1988 olympics, a 12 year old Randy falls apart with nerves, after learning his father has placed a large bet on his winning, and looses. Randy's father was killed when he could not pay the money he owed to Su Feng, the man he placed the bet with. Randy vowes to never play ping pong again. Fast forward 18 years, and Randy, now working for a very cheesy circus show doing ping pong tricks is approached by the FBI who are onto a lead to catch Su Feng. At a mysterious ping pong tournament. Randy has the skills to get into the competition and get the FBI close to Su Feng. Meeting ping pong masters and a rather attractive ...

chugglebunny 27.06.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Balls Of Fury (DVD)

Not so Great Balls of Fury

Advantages: Some good gags.
Disadvantages: There are more misses than hits and director and star are off their game.

and bullet-time shots of the sport. There are also plenty of montages that show Randy's progress against his evermore ludicrous opponents. So it's a sporadically entertaining but predictable film. The screenplay by Garant and Thomas Lennon is nothing new. Much of it is a riff on "The Karate Kid", where Randy has to be tutored by a wisdom-spouting sensai with unorthodox techniques. So we see him playing ping pong with wooden spoons and swatting bees with a table tennis bat to improve his speed. There are shades of super-spy spoofs like "Austin Powers" and "Get Smart", in the espionage subplot that sees Randy team up with an FBI agent. This leads to lots of obvious jokes about hiding bugs up their bums and sneaking around. The reason the film fails is because it has a split focus, so it tries to make jokes at too many things without following ...

afy9mab 14.01.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Balls Of Fury (DVD)

Table tennis on the DS! Balls of Fury - and it's not bad!

Advantages: Lots of fun, unlockables, easy to get into
Disadvantages: Need multiple copies to play using multi player mode

This review is for the Nintendo DS game, Balls of Fury, developed by Black Lantern Studios and published by Destination Software. The game is a table tennis game, with numerous options and challenges to work through. It?s easy to start learning how to play the game, but it can take some time to perfect all the special moves which are available in the game. These are called power moves, and do take some practice to get right. However, for those new to the game, there are three difficulty levels to choose from, and you can get right into playing the game using the easy mode. The two screens of the DS do suit this game quite well, as the top screen is your opponent?s half of the table, and the bottom half is your area of play. You use the stylus to control the ball and its direction. The controls slightly surprisingly do work quite well ...

julwhite 07.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Balls of Fury (Nintendo DS)