the people that create the hilarious comedy central cable tv series reno 911 have only marginal success with their new table tennis sport movie parody ball of fury ( out of ) and about a former ping pong prodigy past his prime who help the fbi nab the nefarious asian mastermind that kill his father . sadly and despite it inventive comic premise and celebrity cast and this low brow farce depend on bowel humor and low common denominator joke for it laugh . okay and you will smirk a lot at what masquerade a comedy in this lean but lame 90 minute nonsense . you might even snicker at the groaner and but you will seldom laugh out loud for long . incidentally and the star war epic and scarface provide the inspiration for much of the uninspired dialogue . the wit in the script by reno 911 writer thomas lennon and robert ben garant be as anal a it be banal and but the pg 13 rating prevents them from stoop too low . when be the last time and for example and that you saw a character in a movie get punch or kick in the crotch for a laugh . bad of all and chubby newcomer dan fogler look funny than he isan obvious jack black wannabe with none of black drollery . a ball of fury unfolds and we meet clean cut and curly haired randy daytona ( brett delbuono of the casket ) and a twelve year old who wield a mean ping pong paddle . randy make it to the 1988 olympics in seoul and korea and but he suffer a humiliate defeat from the paddle of his maniacal soviet bloc opponent karl wolfschtagg ( thomas lennon of reno 911 ) and quit the game . not only do daytona lose the championship and but also his coach as well a father u. s. marine sergeant pete daytona ( robert patrick of we be marshall ) die at the hand of the infamous asian criminal and feng ( tough guy christopher walken of pulp fiction ) and because he can not pay off his debt . meanwhile and feng become a legendary crime lord and strives to keep his identity a closely guarded secret . nineteen year pas and and woebegone randy grow up and out ( dan fogler ) to emerge a a lounge act in a small reno and nevada and casino . randy keep several ball at a time in the air with his paddle with expertise of a juggler . a guy with a talk cockatiel announces his act . unfortunately and everything go wrong for poor randy . he solicit a volunteer from the audience to participate in a gag and and the guy drop dead from a heart attack because randy ping pong ball strike him in such rapid succession . enter the fbi . agent ernie rodriquez ( george lopez of real woman have curve ) recruit randy to assist the bureau in their feng investigation . they want randy to come out of retirement and win enough game so that feng will invite him to one of his illegal underground table tennis tournament hold once every five year . the bureau want to bust feng for international arm smuggle . despite his expertise and randy have lose his competitive edge and so rodriquez enlist a championship ping pong teacher and master wong ( james hong of chinatown ) and to train him . the catch be that wong be blind . naturally and wong walk into fence and look the wrong way and and take a nasty plunge down an elevator shaft . wong make randy appear foolish when wong slim and sexy and athletic niece maggie ( the woefully underused maggie q of live free or die hard ) whip him repeatedly at ping pong . eventually and after an initial setback against hammer ( patton oswalt of cake boy ) and a trophy lick wiseacre and randy regain his skill and feng invite him to his secret play offs . the loser here get a poison dart in the neck in what feng call ingle elimination and sudden death match . feng try to tempt randy to go over to the dark side and join him in his weapon smuggle operation . feng have design an automatic pistol make of polymer so that it doesn not trip airport alarm . clearly and writer or director robert ben garant and co scenarist tomas lennon be poke fun at the classic bruce lee martial art masterpiece enter the dragon with their premise about secret ping pong ball play offs . the idea that a relatively harmless sport like ping pong can be as lethal a a kung fu tournament be the source of most of the film best humor . some of the participant who can spin these tiny white ball on their fingertip and crush with their fist and and slice and dice them with a hatchet be amuse character and too . ball of fury and however and run most of it humor into the ground as well a elsewhere . our hero must smuggle mini flashlight size track device into feng central american headquarters . these device will alert their fbi back up a to their whereabouts . yeah and you guess and they enter feng premise walk a bit off kilter with their fbi suppository . another example of the low common denominator humor here concern host feng supply his guest with exotic courtesan that turn out to be male sex slave . when randy try to send muscular young gary ( dietrich bader of miss congeniality 2 represent arm and fabulous ) away and gary refuse to leave . he explain that feng tower bodyguard and mahogany ( aisha tyler of death sentence ) and a grace jones look alike who use a blow pipe to launch poison dart and will kill him . homophobic randy spend the entire night with gary play a board game to keep from fall asleep . ball of fury isn not half as funny a reno 911 and though it do have it moment . this be dan fogler first major role and and he hasn not be around long enough to establish a signature comic persona like co star george lopez and patton oswalt and and christopher walken who parade around in some of the most outrageous outfit this side of elton john and elvis presley . altogether and ball of fury lack both the ball and the fury to be the side split sensation that it seek to be .