One Word Movie

Ping Pong

I thought this was going to be a Japanese version of Shaolin Soccer*, but about table tennis, surely the greatest game to grace God's earth, but I was wrong. In fact, it's a sports movie about the importance of hard work and the Corinthian spirit over talent, with only one ridiculous kung fu moment. I felt a little cheated.

Nothing very much apart from table tennis happens in the film, but it doesn't have to, because the whole thing reeks of sublimated gay sex, almost as much as Chariots of Fire, officially the gayest film ever, even gayer than that Derek Jarman about the Romans where the naked centurions casually toss a prehistoric frisbee from man to man.

It's just about worth a good rating, anyway.

* Shaolin Soccer is shit, there are 3 very good minutes in it and that is all. Watch Kung Fu Hustle instead.

posted by Chairman Peyote @ 1:13 PM