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Balls Out – Gary The Tennis Coach: Extras Big & Bouncy Edition (2008/Sony DVD)

 

Picture: C     Sound: B-     Extras: C     Film: C

 

 

Danny Leiner has made two of the dumbest comedy films of the decade in Dude, Where’s My Car? and Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle.  They represent a decline in commercial filmmaking in Hollywood, especially as they actually, eventually made money for their studios.  In a strange twist of fate of sorts, he is the director of Balls Out – Gary The Tennis Coach (2008), a new comedy with Seann William Scott that turns out to be too raunchy to land up in theaters.  It has a bad script by newer writers and would not be so good, but Scott gives a performance so outrageous, this may just find an audience.

 

Scott plays the title character, a janitor at a high school who always loved tennis and in some ways, never gave up his dream.  When he meets the school’s tennis coach (Randy Quaid) under odd circumstances, he starts to get involved with the team and his ways are eccentric on the surface.  When he takes over the whole team, he goes bonkers and all hell breaks loose.

 

Can he teach the young kids to play the game well?  He can actually play, which is a plus.  However, he starts to cross the line in wacky ways and some of them include hiring strippers to get key team members to grow up, become “men” and he turns out to be more demented than expected.  The moustache he has is a prop used to great effect and the result is he comes across as Andy Roddick on many, many drugs with a few screws loose.  Again, the film is not great, but the boldness of Scott (which is has been known for to begin with) and some patches of the script that do work produce some outrageous laughs.  If you can handle hard R-rated situations, this is worth a look.

 

The anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 image is not great however, has motion blur to go along with its inconsistent look and should have looked a bit better, but I bet we see a Blu-ray if this is a DVD hit.  The Dolby Digital 5.1 mix is somewhat dialogue/joke-driven and the surrounds are reserved for music and funny sound effects.  Extra include deleted scenes, outtakes and the making of featurette Tennis Anyone?  See the film before watching those for best effect.

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo


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