Jimmy Tsai, Roger Fan, Shelley Malil
A kid dreams of playing professional basketball in order to escape his dead-end job, living in the suburbs, his bossy older brother and running his Mom's ping pong classes.
DVD Release Date: January 6, 2009
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Flixster Reviews (286)
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December 4, 2008Very well executed, great score to boot. Chigga's got game, eh? This was very fun without bein offensive.
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October 23, 2008It's the Chinese Napoleon Dynamite!!! Except this one trades in tether-ball for ping pong (or the more "politically-correct" term: table tennis.)
The movie was a lot more funny than Napoleon was at first viewing. This is the story of a dweeb loser who is Chinese but thinks he is...( read more) -
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October 12, 2009Good humored, pointed Asian American comedy from outstanding documentary director Jessica Yu.
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October 3, 2009"The other ping pong movie." Its actually better than Balls of Fury despite having no one I recognized in the cast. Its starts of really good, but they run out of jokes, gets sappy and predictable at the end. A lot of laugh-out-load moments with the rampant ethnic stereotyping, b...( read more)
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September 4, 2009Funny asian dude...
Makes you laugh hard out ha ha ha
Watch it here:
http://www.megavideo.com/?v=OMNUGIM4
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Critic Reviews
September 2, 2008
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine
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