Good silly fun...and a nice homage.

Rating: 7/10 (16 July 2008)

Well what can be said? The thing is you already know whether you'll like this movie or not. You'll like this if you like the kind of goofy stuff Ben Stiller, Will Ferrell, Jack Black, Adam Sandler, etc put out. This is not an "intelligent comedy", this is "silly" stuff, and it's quite good at it. Interestingly, this is also a somewhat of a spoof. Interestingly because that angle wasn't used in the marketing and because the movie spoofed is from the early 70s! Indeed the plot is mainly a spoof/homage of the Bruce Lee classic "Enter The Dragon", with martial arts replaced by table tennis, and let me tell you it's a hell of a lot funnier than the official "spoof movies" delivered regularly by the Seltzer/Friedberg duo. The cast is good and full of familiar faces if you know your stuff (James Hong, Cary Hiroyuki-Tagawa, Robert Patrick, etc...) and the laughs are aplenty. Once again this is a comedy with jokes based on people falling and getting hit, gay guys, pandas and Asian people, and if you know what to expect you should enjoy it. The only disappointing part to me was that there wasn't a ping pong match in a hall of mirrors (watch Enter The Dragon if you don't know what I'm talking about).