Well, I'm glad I didn't pay to see it.

Rating: Null/10 (29 September 2007)

I watched this movie from a website that has hundreds of free movies, most that were poorly recorded with a camcorder right from the movie theater, as was the case with this one.
Now, I'm going to be a bit of a hypocrite here by being nitpicky about the film, but there's a lot to be nitpicked.
First things first, I think there has been far too many poor comedies gained at Asian suspense. I'm not going to name names, but the whole idea of picking things up from other cultures and making a joke out of it irks me a bit. I'm not calling the movie in itself racist, but the idea has been way over used and it made the whole movie stagnant, nothing I haven't seen before.
Which brings me to the subject that upsetted me about the movie. That being the character of "Karl Wolfschtagg". Me being the overly defensive German that I am, got a little offended by the whole "Let's make the loud obnoxious stereotypical German guy the enemy!" And to make things worse, they killed him abruptly during the climax of the movie, an event that made all the extras cheer. Not that I'm saying that he was suppose to represent his people, but the whole thing was in bad taste.
Next on the docket is Dan Fogler, and as many have called him, "a poor man's Jack Black", which I find to be an acceptable description of the man. He plays the main character "Randy Daytona", an average Joe who is an exceptional Ping-Pong player. While he is a pretty good actor, I don't think anyone could've made the role work. Not even the real Jack Black. The character was boring, to be completely honest, and lacked any interesting or eye-catching aspects.
But then again, that could've just been the movie's fault itself. It was tacky, unoriginal, and altogether unfunny. While it had it's moments like any other bad comedy, it simply wasn't good enough to classify as anything other then "Wait until it's on cable." And the jokes themselves were mostly slapstick and uninteresting, while the verbal ones have all been heard before. People have described it as something that would only be funny from ages ten through fourteen, well, I can say that I AM fourteen and even I found very little of it funny at all.
Like I said, wait until it's on cable, unless you're drunk or stoned and have a good excuse to watch something so crappy.