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Release Date:
29 August 2007 (USA)
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Tagline:
A huge comedy with tiny balls
Plot:
Down-and-out former professional ping-pong phenom, Randy Daytona, is sucked into a maelstrom when FBI Agent Ernie Rodriguez recruits him for a secret mission. Randy is determined to bounce back and win, and to smoke out his father's killer -- arch-fiend Feng. full summary | full synopsis
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Reno 911 creators producing new comedy for NBC
(From AOL - TVSquad. 14 October 2009, 2:00 PM, PDT)
NBC Signs Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant For New Series
(From The Flickcast. 13 October 2009, 8:00 AM, PDT)
(From AOL - TVSquad. 14 October 2009, 2:00 PM, PDT)
NBC Signs Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant For New Series
(From The Flickcast. 13 October 2009, 8:00 AM, PDT)
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Wong As 'Hong' A Surprise In This Pong Farce
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Dan Fogler | ... | Randy Daytona |
 | Christopher Walken | ... | Feng |
 | George Lopez | ... | Rodriguez |
 | Maggie Q | ... | Maggie |
 | James Hong | ... | Wong |
 | Terry Crews | ... | Freddy |
 | Robert Patrick | ... | Sgt. Pete Daytona |
 | Diedrich Bader | ... | Gary |
 | Aisha Tyler | ... | Mahogany |
 | Thomas Lennon | ... | Karl Wolfschtagg |
 | Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa | ... | Mysterious Asian Man |
 | Brett DelBuono | ... | Young Randy - 12 Yrs. Old (as Brett Delbuono) |
 | Jason Scott Lee | ... | Siu-Foo |
| Toby Huss | ... | Groundskeeper |
| David Holmes | ... | TV Producer (as Dave Holmes) |
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Rated PG-13 for crude and sex-related humor, and for language.
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90 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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USA:PG-13 (# 43255) |
Ireland:12A |
Singapore:PG |
Malaysia:U |
South Korea:15 |
Finland:K-11 |
Argentina:13 |
Canada:PG (Canadian Home Video rating) |
Netherlands:6 |
Australia:PG |
Iceland:7 |
Iceland:L (DVD rating)
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Thomas Lennon wrote the character of Feng expecting to play it himself.
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Factual errors: In individual Olympic sports, competitors are identified by their names, not by their nations (as many individual sports would have multiple competitors from the same nation). Randy Daytona's and Karl Wolfschtagg's names would have appeared on the scoreboard, not "USA" and "GDR," respectively.
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Karl Wolfschtagg:
So, we meet again. The years have not been kind to you; I will not be either.
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References Finding Nemo (2003)
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Two Tickets To Paradise
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If you like ping pong, laugh at the insane characters Christopher Walken likes to play, enjoy dark comedy, don't mind a bunch of stupid-but-funny scenes and a wildly outlandish story....you should like this movie. I did, and I realize it is a dumb movie....but it's fun and it's entertaining.
In many respects, this is a typical farcical comedy of today, with the same ingredients you see in many of them - the same type of outrageous characters (everyone in here), the typical spy story and Nazi villain (will Hollywood move on, in that regard?), tons of sexual innuendos and scantily-clad babes, an ugly-and fat-male lead and total absurd humor. It's the latter that I like, and I can't recall how many times I laughed out loud at some ridiculous sight or sentence that I saw in here.
Walken, even though he doesn't play the lead guy is fascinating, as always in his typical off- the-wall role. To me, though, James Hong, an actor in his late '70s, just about stole this film as "Master Wong," the blind instructor. He was flat-out hilarious and had a lot of great lines. Of course, so did Walken and the film's star, Dan Fogler ("Randy Daytona"). and the villain Thomas Lennon as "Karl Wolfschtagg." Kudos to Lennon for also co-writing the script.
Other reviewers here who wrote "silly but entertaining" hit it right on the nose. That's what it is, and that's what you should expect. Humor-wise, it is another "Dodgeball," except now it's ping-pong, and it's funnier.
In addition, you get profound words to live by, such as "To die like a tiger is better than living like a pussy." Hmmmm.