TIFF Review: Ping Pong Playa - Best of the Fest!

Published: September 29, 2007, 10:20 am

Tags: toronto film fest 07, movie reviews

Every once in a few film festivals I find that rare gem that goes unnoticed in the mainstream movie world yet instantly becomes one of my all-time favorites. This year it was Jessica Yu's Ping Pong Playa from the Toronto Film Fest where I was brought along unknowingly to a screening without being sure what to expect. I was in for a treat: a hilarious comedy that had me laughing so hard I scared the people in theater next to me. Screw the terrible Balls of Fury, Ping Pong Playa is the ping pong movie that should be in the spotlight! I'm not sure how to describe Ping Pong Playa. It's an off-the-wall, eclectic comedy about an Asian-American wanna-be "gangsta" and aspiring basketball player named Christopher "C-Dub" Wang (Jimmy Tsai) who lives with his parents in Southern California. His brother is a local ping pong champion whose success fuels sales at his father's ping pong store and his mother teaches ping pong to kids. His brother is the perfect child and he's the "problem child" who

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