Boy, I was really enjoying this film by the halfway mark (about 50 minutes). It was funny, and the lead character was especially humorous. That was "C-Dub," played by Jimmy Tsai. It was a shock seeing an Asian-American talk like a black man with all the slang of the day, and I'm sure that was there to make us laugh.
What wasn't funny was the outright racism in the second half of the film. When are these politically-correct double-standards in the film industry going to cease? In this film, the three white people - two ping-pong players and the judge of a tournament - are all made to be villains and totally ignorant. Nobody else in the movie is portrayed like this. Imagine the outcry if this was the case and only the black people or Asians were shown to be stupid and obnoxious? Well, the film wouldn't have even made it to your theater.
Overall, this film is just embarrassingly bad. No intelligent Asian would accept this movie as anything but garbage and an insult to them, either. Too bad, because it was so promising and had some charm in the first half. Then, the ugliness of racism and the very predictable ending all dumbed this story down to a pathetic low. It explains why there are less than 10 reviews of his movie.
What wasn't funny was the outright racism in the second half of the film. When are these politically-correct double-standards in the film industry going to cease? In this film, the three white people - two ping-pong players and the judge of a tournament - are all made to be villains and totally ignorant. Nobody else in the movie is portrayed like this. Imagine the outcry if this was the case and only the black people or Asians were shown to be stupid and obnoxious? Well, the film wouldn't have even made it to your theater.
Overall, this film is just embarrassingly bad. No intelligent Asian would accept this movie as anything but garbage and an insult to them, either. Too bad, because it was so promising and had some charm in the first half. Then, the ugliness of racism and the very predictable ending all dumbed this story down to a pathetic low. It explains why there are less than 10 reviews of his movie.