i can never wrap my head around the career of thomas lennon and robert ben garant . on television and their work be some of the best comedy of the past couple of decade represent the state and viva variety . and and and their triumph and comedy central reno 911. but when they write movie and the result be well nigh unwatchable . i have think in the past that they be just defecate cheap movie script so that they could make money and continue produce fine work on television . i mean and the pacifier and herbie represent fully load and night at the museum smack of the kind of audience despise material you might expect from smart writer deliberately try to dumb down their work for some cold hard cash . add to that the fact that their movie version of reno 911 and which be release early in 2007 and be pretty good . but then and later in the year and they make this film . it a cheesy little comedy and and it have a lot of potential to be decent and if unremarkable and fun . this be their genre and unlike the child flick . there no conceivable reason to hate your audience here and since presumably they will be pretty close to the same audience that watch reno 911. dan fogler play a former child prodigy and olympic table tennis player . now he a loser and but he be recruit by the fbi to infiltrate an underground ping pong tournament and host by an international criminal and play by christopher walken . the premise and reminiscent of other recent underground sport comedy like dodgeball and beerfest and doesn not have a lot of promise and it true . but all a comedy really need be some good joke and and it will fly . or at least you would think it would . the problem with ball of fury isn not exactly it joke . theyre funny enough and for the most part . it the delivery . the actor have little ability in comic timing ( what halfway decent comedic director would willfully hire george lopez to be in their movie . ) and and robert ben garant often fail to sell the joke and even when they be potentially amuse . even when the comic performance be good and a be the case with walken and co writer thomas lennon himself and the editing be so poor that the gag almost never hit . it all quite maddening . reno 911 be particularly brilliant in it editing . i really do not see how the same people could produce such a laughless comedy . i guess tv be just their medium and but i do not understand why film making should prove so difficult for them .