Moviegoers who go to see Balls of Fury will indeed feel the fury… fury they paid money and gave up an hour and a half of their life for this film.

I maybe chuckled – lightly – twice while watching it.

Other than that, I was just waiting for it to end.

Balls of Fury tells the story of Randy Daytona, a former child ping pong star, now grown up and doing small-time stage tricks using his ping pong skills. An FBI agent shows up and recruits him for a secret mission to take down a criminal mastermind by the name of Feng, who holds an underground ping pong tournament.

For anyone who has watched standup comedy, they know that whether a joke is funny comes in the delivery. In the movie, I could see what the filmmakers were trying to do, but the delivery was off, the humor just fell flat – especially during a lot of the sight gags.

Not only was the movie unfunny, the storytelling was shoddy. Now, I’m aware this is a slapstick comedy. And I’m not looking for masterful filmmaking here. I just want a decent movie. Groundhog Day, Happy Gilmore, and even Superbad are all examples of comedies that were also well-made movies.

The pacing was off, making the movie feel rushed. The story, even within the context of the movie, feels way too forced. Daytona’s change of heart to join the mission to take down Feng, after an initial resistance, was almost random.

And I got that this movie was trying to make fun of movie clichés – but you know what? They did it in such a way that the entire movie was a cliché.

Although I hated the movie, I have to give props to Christopher Walken for doing a role like this. Dressing up in that ridiculous outfit, it shows the man doesn’t take himself too seriously.

Dan Fogler, who plays Daytona, didn’t impress. He doesn’t have the same “sweet, funny, fat guy” screen presence that someone such as Chris Farley had. Fogler’s performance felt clunky and awkward.

Let’s hope he does better in the upcoming Good Luck Chuck, which is out Sept. 21.

Maggie Q, seen recently in Mission: Impossible III and this summer’s Live Free or Die Hard is beautiful and certainly a draw for the male audience, but is otherwise useless in the film. She doesn’t add anything to the story. Her character, the gorgeous-but-tough girl, is yet another cliché that makes the film ultimately fail.

In fact, her randomly falling for the main character, without ever even trying to show any kind of real connection between them, is another example that may have been trying to mock clichés, but comes across much more like sloppy writing.

This movie isn’t worth the price of admission. You might see it playing on cable in a few years, but even then, I wouldn’t bother.