Balls Out (2014)

recommended

Highly Overrated But Still Good

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

So this is how i watched the movie ,, first 30 minutes i started texting ,, second 30 minutes fast-forwarding and last 30 minutes i really can't remember .. The story is kinda lame ,, the jokes aren't funny and so motionless,, and the script is so loose, not that catchy and all over the place, so you can eat, do an errand come back and it'll be the same old story of the movie and you're not gonna be that lost :P I tried to find a scene where i can justify the Genre of the movie as a Comedy but i found none ,, well to be fair there was this scene when they started a fight in the Jail ,, honestly i weirdly laughed at that , and the commentators were also a bit funny and humorous ., but again the whole movie wasn't really what i expected it to be as a Saturday Night Live fan :\As for the cast; mostly they were the SNL cast and i truly like them and all ,, but Here it feels like they overdid the stupidity performance a notch so it appeared to be a Bluccchhh ..Overall,, i don't regret watching the movie , cuz i sorta wanted to see how the new SNL cast will do out of the SNL set and i did. but i shouldn't recommend it to anyone, unless you like the type of movies where you can pause it, go to sleep and then watch it the next day if you have time :\

Small-town college student has to choose between ambition and passion.Iron rule of movie selection: always ignore the hot piece of ass on the cover. A few chuckles from this, but when I checked the time there were still 60 mins to go. Fcuk me. In one scene a guy in a wheelchair delivers a sarcastic slow hand-clap, but keeps interrupting himself to roll the wheelchair forward - funny idea, but zero reaction from me. Plenty of parody of feel-good sports movies, channelling The Mean Machine with a touch of Ben Stiller. Actors, direction, jokes, editing all good - enough for a laugh-a-minute, but for all that input it just doesn't click. How does a movie die on screen? I dunno - the mystery of comedy. I guess it comes down to the spirit of the thing, and the tongue-in-ass mockery of macho culture comes across as smug.There was a hint of the pointlessness of college education, but they didn't go for the political slant.Ignore the external reviews - this sadly is a fail.

I have always been a big fan of sports comedy. This one is an instant classic. Kate McKinnon will be a 20-30 million dollar actress someday, she is absolutely amazing in this film. The other cast members are great also. Beck Bennett was made for the "bad" guy role and Jake Lacy pulls it all together with the nice guy just trying to get through life thing he has going on in this film. Plenty of laugh out loud humor. I watched this movie when it was called "Intramural" at Tribeca Film Festival and now I have seen it as the re-branded "Balls Out", it is the same film. Highly recommended. If you like movies like "Dodge Ball" then you will love "Balls Out". Thanks for making something different and fun!

Ignore the title and poster art for Balls Out. It's not a National Lampoon presents type of "movie". Once you've decided not to judge a movie by it's poster, sit back and enjoy a surprisingly witty, slapstick, sports movie that has an unbelievable cast. Balls Out has several SNL cast members (Jay Pharoh, Beck Bennett,Kate McKinnon) and some Youtube/Comedy Troop stars that fill out the roles. The biggest names are Jake Lacy (Obvious Child) and Nikki Reed (Twilight series) who are the focal point of the movie. What makes Balls Out different is it's supporting cast. It's the kind of film where the supporting cast steals the show and you end up liking them a lot more than the aforementioned actors. Without a doubt, Beck Bennett is worth seeing this movie alone. He's like Stan Gable from Revenge of the Nerds turned up to 11. Kate McKinnon has very few scenes, but she steals every single one of them. In a few years, people will look back at this movie and wonder how in the hell they got all of these stars in one movie.There are some great scenes and hilarious moments that come from out of nowhere. The dick and fart jokes are few but they land; a refreshing style of comedy from an indie film. My only beef with "Balls Out" is Jake Lacy and Nikki Reed. They're pretty to look at and void of charisma. Jake may have played his role a little too straight in a movie of outrageous characters. Other than that, this movie is a MUST SEE. You can sound cool and say you this before "fill in the blank actor/actress" got super famous. Stop reading and watch it already!!!!!!