Genre: Comedy
Starring:
Jimmy Tsai
Andrew Vo
Khary Payton
Jim Lau
Roger Fan
Elizabeth Sung
Javin Reid
Kevin Chung
Peter Paige
Smith Cho
Release year: 2008
Language: English
Subtitle: English
SYNOPSIS:
Christopher "C-dub" Wang is a suburban guy who sports an urban swagger, waxes political on all things Asian American, and clings to pipe dreams of a career as a pro basketball player. Blaming genetics for his failure to make the NBA, C-dub lives at home, works a dead-end job, and squirms in the shadow of his older brother, Michael, a doctor and ping pong champion.
With a family-run store devoted to all things ping pong and a mom who teaches it at the local Chinese Community Center, the Wangs' entire world revolves around the sport. But despite the family legacy, C-dub opts to spend his free time playing video games and daydreaming about get-rich quick schemes with his best friend JP Money.
C-dub is kicked back into reality when his mom and Michael are hurt in a car accident, leaving his father to watch over the store and forcing C-dub to take over his mom's ping pong class of misfits. C-dub starts to appreciate the benefits of ping pong when he starts using the class to make some extra money on the side and befriending one of the kids who happens to have a beautiful older sister. But when the Wang family livelihood is threatened by a rival ping pong player's attempts to lure the kids away, C-dub begins to take things more seriously. With the National Golden Cock Tournament coming up and an injured Michael unable to defend his title, C-dub must become the player he pretends to be and defend his family's ping pong dynasty.
RATING: 8.25/10
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REVIEW:
" To say that Jessica Yu's first fiction feature is a departure is an understatement. Yu, a Palo Alto native who makes documentaries, won the Oscar for the made-in-Berkeley short "Breathing Lessons" and also directed "In the Realms of the Unreal."
C-Dub is the creation of Jimmy Tsai, a production accountant for Cherry Sky Films, which produced "Ping Pong Playa." He introduced the character on a Web site ( www.venomsportswear.com) that supposedly hawks athletic apparel. The sometimes hilarious character caught Yu's eye, and she and Tsai co-wrote the script.
The result is a mostly amusing, appealing family comedy about going from pretender to contender, in life as well as pingpong.
There are kids - C-Dub's "disciples," who are eternally grateful to their master for saving them from a life of calligraphy lessons and SAT studying; there's a girl (Smith Cho), the older sister of a disciple who provides sarcastic incentive for the suppression of C-Dub's inner child; there's a best friend, JP Money (Khary Payton), a black man who wishes he was Chinese; there's an older brother, the successful member of the family; and a showdown with a villain (Peter Paige) at the big tournament.
In short, there's a formula that is honored, which at times threatens the goodwill built up by the likable characters. Its predictability hints that Yu, like C-Dub, is dunking over kids on the playground instead of playing with the big boys, but that's OK.
The movie works because of Tsai's fun performance - this from someone who has never acted. He neatly avoids the over-the-top obnoxiousness that has sunk many a Will Ferrell sports comedy. "
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
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