In the grand tradition of BEERFEST and BLADES OF GLORY, this insistently ludicrous — and not entirely unfunny — two-joke comedy satirizes an old Hollywood standby: the big-comeback sports movie. One joke is that the film purports to expose the seedy underbelly of that rec-room favorite, ping-pong. The other is that our hapless hero is forced to compete in a fight-to-the-death match of the kind usually found in a very different kind of film, the kind that generally stars Bruce Lee or Jean-Claude Van Damme.
1988, Seoul, Korea: Young U.S. table-tennis champion and Def Leppard fanatic Randy Daytona (Dan Fogler) is about to face off against his most fe...
Released:
2007
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
90 mins