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22 of 25 people found the following review helpful.
Funniest Movie I’ve Seen in Ages
By V. K. Lin
First saw this at the Eugene DisOrient Asian Film Festival over a year ago. Funniest movie I’ve seen in ages. Minimal spoilers below…This is the story of a younger son in a Chinese-American family who is struggling with his identity and his cultural responsibility. His elder brother is a ping pong champion, and the entire family’s finances are contingent on the reputation of the family and their performance at a local ping pong tournament. You can figure out the rest from there.But this charming, hilarious, incredibly well-thought out movie by relative movie unknowns has more class, humor, and intelligence than most mainstream Hollywood comedies I’ve seen. The vast majority of the humor is applicable to all races, all cultures, all walks of life… there are a few jokes and intimations specific to the Asian-American community… but I loved this movie so much I pre-ordered the DVD, feeling grateful that it actually made it out of it’s film festival beginnings (into limited more mainstream release, but not where I live), onto DVD.It’s based on the classic athletic competition motif. The oppressive, aggressive professional athlete coming to take over small local town ping pong hero. Family obligation. Cultural expectations. Identity/social self-exploration/finding. Touching characters with some depth.The humor is classy, clever, witty. It is not very subtle, just outright fun. Language is pretty clean for a comedy, but still has quite a bit of profanity (teenage locker room talk) that is partially obscured by the sound of a bouncing ball or ping pong paddle hit or similar as a sort of tongue-in-cheek (ha, that’s a pun!) censor. Depending on your sensitivity to this sort of thing, appropriate for teens (13-14+), but prepare to cover the ears of your child if younger. Subject material is otherwise pretty clean, and appropriate for even younger than teenaged kids.It’s a great film, IMO.-vk

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Super cool and uplifting movie – good for the family!
By Dave
This movie, starring Jimmy Tsai, is funny and uplifting. It is a unique film that not only I enjoyed, but my children also found it to be an awesome movie! Buy it on DVD, it’s great to watch over and over.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Pretty good, pretty funny
By Grill Master
This movie was just about what I was thinking it would be. It was funny throughout but not just hilarious.There is a good bit of profanity along with f-bombs that are presented as “f(sound of a ping-pong ball hiting a hard surface)k”. So I don’t know if it is for younger kids. Many of the profanities are hidden but not completely.The story is good and kept me interested. There is a lot of humor though I don’t think it is most people’s type of humor and I felt like there were some aspects I didn’t think were funny but felt like it was intended to be funny.I will probably watch it again sometime. There’s a lot of ping-pong in the movie.

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