Bores of Fury

Ehh. I really wish I could say this movie is better than it is. You'd think with Christopher Walken playing a huge Chinese crime lord with an insatiable love of underground ping pong, the movie would be funny in and of itself. But, uh...it wasn't.

This movie was so bland it wasn't even funny (heh heh, yes the jokes were that bad, or worse). One trait every comedy should have is humor, something that must have slipped the minds of the writers. I can't remember one joke that wasn't telegraphed. You can see the punchline coming a mile away and by the time it actually arrives you're just tired of it. It was as if a total stiff with no clue as to what causes laughter, studied a lot of B-comedies, took the material that wasn't even the funniest parts of those comedies, and then wrote this movie.

Just some bad examples:
1) Apparently just being Asian is supposed to be funny. They look and talk funny so you don't actually have to have them say anything funny.
2) If the main character is fat, people will laugh. Period.
3) Making people sneak things into restricted places using their butts is funny. If we make 15 minutes of the movie about that it should be hilarious.

As the credits run the whole cast is singing a song and pretending to have a good time, but you can tell they're crying on the inside. Walken is slapping is agent for this one.

My advice. Spare yourself. Watch Superbad twice instead. Ok, I'm out. I gotta go row.