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2->''[[InAWorld In the world]] of illegal underground table tennis...''
3-->-- entirely deadpan opening line from the trailer
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5From a slate of obscure-sports sports movie parodies (''Film/DodgeballATrueUnderdogStory'', ''Film/BladesOfGlory'') that were popular in the mid-'00s. It is directed by Creator/RobertBenGarant with the screenplay by Garant and Creator/ThomasLennon.
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7Nineteen years after a humiliating failure at the '88 Olympic Games against Karl Wolfschtagg (Lennon), ping-pong prodigy Randy Daytona (Creator/DanFogler) is eking out a living as a trick-ping-pong-artist; on the day he gets fired, he is invited by FBIAgent Ernie Rodriguez (Creator/GeorgeLopez) to be the Creator/BruceLee equivalent in a ping-pong themed ''Film/EnterTheDragon'' parody: reclusive criminal overlord hosting exclusive tournament in private fortress.
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9The film also stars Creator/ChristopherWalken as Feng, Creator/MaggieQ as Maggie Wong and Creator/RobertPatrick as Pete Daytona.
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12!!This film contains examples of:
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14* ActionGirl: Maggie, very much. She ''nearly'' curb-stomps a bunch of mooks on her own before being taken.
15* ActorAllusion: Creator/CaryHiroyukiTagawa used to be in the same role as Feng. [[Film/MortalKombatTheMovie As Shang Tsung.]]
16* AmbiguouslyGay: Feng. [[spoiler:His "courtesans" are all men. And they don't need to be gay for some reason. Randy hangs out with one like they were bros.]]
17* AssShove: "We're gonna have to sneak this in the old fashioned way..."
18* BadBoss: Feng in spades. He has Mahogany kill his associate, the Mysterious Asian Man, because Wong, Randy and Ernie were 15 minutes late to the banquet.
19* BilingualBonus: Averted.
20-->'''Feng:''' Ping pong! Or, as the Chinese call it, ping pong!
21* BreadEggsMilkSquick: "Congratulations, you beat the Dragon! Here's your money, too bad [[spoiler: it's got snot all over it." He then proceeds to blow his nose on the prize money.]]
22* ButtMonkey: Randy. In '''spades'''. You'd be hard pressed to find a scene where he isn't being mocked, physically injured, or accidentally screwing something up.
23* TheCameo:
24** Randy's first opponent is Creator/PattonOswalt.
25** Creator/RobertPatrick appears as Randy's father Pete.
26** Creator/DiedrichBader [[spoiler:as one of the "courtesans".]]
27** Creator/MasiOka as the bathroom attendant [[spoiler:is brief enough to match Creator/StanLee - he gets KO'd after one line.]]
28* CasualDangerDialogue: Maggie [[spoiler: beats 3 people in ping pong ''at the same time'' while also answering the phone to take a food delivery order, while sounding absolutely bored.]]
29* ChekhovsSkill: Bouncing ping-pong balls off of people. Also inverted in that the BigBad's major weakness in his [[IncompletelyTrained incomplete training]] is [[spoiler:that he cannot reverse-serve a ball]].
30* CombatParkour: Maggie uses combat parkour when she takes on a group of martial artists.
31* CultureChopSuey: Feng's palace looks mostly Chinese, but there's ''Sumo wrestlers'' carrying his palanquin, and Feng's fashions make him look like Bram Stoker's ''Dracula.'' There's even what appears to be North Korean officers, but those are probably guests.
32* DamselInDistress: Beautifully GenderFlipped with the sex slaves, who do nothing but squeal and cower while they're being rescued.
33* DancePartyEnding: A karaoke party over the end credits, with nearly all the characters regardless of whose side they're on (Feng, Mahogany and even his servant girls are here).
34* DeceptiveDisciple: The BigBad learned everything in how to become a master ping-pong player from Master Wong, but left before his training was complete and became a crime lord with a penchant for ping-pong death-matches. The incompleteness of his training becomes a HoistByHisOwnPetard during his battle with Daytona.
35* TheDragon:
36** Creator/CaryHiroyukiTagawa is the man who's been doing all the legwork for Feng, including [[spoiler:kidnapping and killing Randy's father.]]
37** Feng's female assistant, Mahogany, who among her other duties [[spoiler:executes losing contestants with poisoned darts]]. For extra ShoutOut points, she resembles [[Film/AViewToAKill May Day]].
38** The best player in the local competition in the first act is [[LittleMissBadass a little girl]] who is literally nicknamed "the Dragon".
39* ExactWords: Feng demonstrates how evil he is by killing the first contestant that loses (played by Terry Crews) and telling Randy "What part of 'sudden '''death'''' didn't you understand?".
40* {{Expy}}: Jason Scott Lee plays Eddie, the translator for "The Dragon," doubling as an ShoutOut to himself in ''Film/EnterTheDragon'' and also as a ShoutOut to the urban legend of Bruce Lee fighting for the ability to teach the ''kwailo'' kung fu. "The Dragon" herself is an Expy to Bruce Lee, in this case in the realm of ping pong.
41* {{Fanservice}}: What else would you call Maggie Q in a sports bra and tight workout shorts for half of the movie and wearing a short red qipao like dress(which she cartwheels in during one of the ping pong matches, showing her underwear)?
42* FauxAffablyEvil: Karl Wolfschtagg for Randy, and the BigBad as well.
43* GiftShake: At the end, Randy gives his master a gift. He vigorously shakes it before Randy has a chance to tell him that it's a new lucky cricket, which is now dead.
44* GroinAttack: Happens a few times, including an incident with chopsticks.
45* HighVoltageDeath: At the end of the film, [[spoiler:Randy exploits Feng's weak backhand, causing the latter to be fatally electrocuted by his own vest]].
46* HoistByHisOwnPetard: TheDragon ends up being killed by one of her own poison darts.
47* HypocriticalHumor: Karl Wolfschtagg coldly mocks Randy and his dead father over and over, laughing at his own jokes. When someone heckles him from the audience with "You suck!" Wolfschtagg meekly protests that insults "sting."
48* ImGoingToDisneyWorld: Randy, in a daze, blurts this out when he is humiliated at the Olympics. Years later, when greeting Feng's audience, a foreign national breaks the silence with, "how was Disney World?" making this statement an OldShame.
49* InsultBackfire: This gem:
50-->'''Thug''': You smell like fear!\
51'''Master Wong''': The joke's on you, it's Lady Speed Stick!\
52'''Randy''': ''[beat]'' Thank you, master.
53* InvoluntaryBattleToTheDeath: [[spoiler:Randy discovers the hard way that all of the matches in this tournament are this, but the one that better fits is the climax, in which Feng forces Randy and Maggie into a match -- one dies or ''both'' die]].
54* LargeHam: [[EvilIsHammy Karl Wolfschtagg]]. He's anything but subtle in his gloating.
55* LittleMissBadass: [[spoiler:The Dragon. Complete with Hello Kitty backpack!]]
56* MightyWhitey: Though Randy is referred to by his teacher as "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwailo gwailo]]" (literally "ghost man" but taken to mean "foreign devil"), he is acknowledged as the only player able to beat Feng's contestants (and Feng himself).
57* MundaneMadeAwesome: Ping pong is portrayed with as much intensity as your average kung-fu fight.
58* MundaneSolution: How does Ernie deal with a crime boss with an AK out to hijack his rescue boat at the pier? Kick the gangplank out from under him.
59* MurderousThighs: See "[[BuffySpeak leg-grip-neck-crunchy thing]]" below.
60* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten People taunting Randy about the Disneyland thing.]]
61* NoOSHACompliance: Lampshaded, at the end.
62* NotJustATournament: As befits a parody of ''Film/EnterTheDragon'', the reason for the FBI being interested in the tournament is because of a crime lord funding it... and using it to draw the attention of unlawful people interested in his product, which is undetectable plastic firearms.
63* OhCrap: Mahogany invokes the trope after [[spoiler:Randy deflects one of her own blow darts back at her.]]
64* OnlySmartPeopleMayPass: Parodied. The directions to the rendezvous for the transport of the tournament are on the "Golden Racquet", as a Chinese riddle. Daytona seems to solve it, but then shows that the address was printed in English on the other side of the racquet, [[FailedASpotCheck which nobody had noticed until then]].
65* OldMaster: Wong.
66* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: Feng used to be Master Wong's ping-pong student until he got deep into the criminal business.
67* PecFlex: Daytona's first opponent in the tournament (Mr. Creator/TerryCrews) does this excessively.
68* PunchPunchPunchUhOh: Subverted. Maggie punches a bad guy, kicks him, does a [[VideoGame/SoulSeries Sophitia-esque]] [[BuffySpeak leg-grip-neck-crunchy thing]] to him, and he doesn't even bat an eye. [[spoiler:Then he falls over.]]
69* RuleOfFunny: The only reason the "grave site under a water slide" scene works. Zoning laws obviously wouldn't allow for such a thing to be possible.
70* SadisticChoice: Feng's real endgame - pitting Randy against [[spoiler:Maggie. Either way one of them will be killed for losing.]]
71* SeriousBusiness:
72** "You killed him..." "Well, duh. What part of 'sudden death' didn't you understand?"
73** Ping-Pong in general is taken VERY seriously in this movie.
74** Also lampshaded: "This is where fortunes are won, or lost. I'm speaking hyperbolically, but you get my point. People bet on ping-pong here."
75* SophisticatedAsHell:
76--> "I'm trying to sacrifice my life in the name of our love, quit being such a dick!"
77* SouthOfTheBorder: Although the compound and the BigBad ''scream'' YellowPeril, the place is situated "someplace in Latin America", and can even be reached by charter bus.
78* TheUnfought: [[spoiler:Karl Wulfstagg]].
79* ThemeMusicPowerUp / MiracleRally: AvertedTrope ''and'' DefiedTrope: [[spoiler:when Randy turns on a Music/DefLeppard song to perform a power-entry to his match with Karl (after a much-needed and sports-film-standard RousingSpeech by Wong regarding Randy's need to fight with his off (and unbroken) hand), the BigBad gets bored and kills both the radio ''and'' Karl]].
80* ThereWasADoor: Inverted. You could try to break through the armored door, but that's stupid when there's a window right next to it.
81* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: Even Ernie gets a badass moment.
82-->"I'm FBI, ''pendejo!''"
83* TrailersAlwaysSpoil:
84** Feng being a white guy played by Creator/ChristopherWalken is treated as a surprise. But you wouldn't know it from every piece of promotional material.
85** The commercials give away a general overview of the plot and most of the jokes.
86* TrainingFromHell: Naturally, as a parody of martial arts films. Among other examples there is WhenYouSnatchThePebble underneath.
87* UnsportsmanlikeGloating: Randy after winning his first round in the tournament. [[MoodWhiplash Then his opponent is killed for losing.]]
88* WhenYouSnatchThePebble: Subverted: we never find out what lesson the cricket in Master Wong's hand was meant to help impart, but it apparently wasn't "grab it as quick as you can."
89* WholePlotReference: To ''Film/EnterTheDragon''. Even the "Courtesans" scene is a parody.
90* YellowPeril: Parodied: Feng, played by Christopher Walken, is so white yet obsessed with being a stereotypical "kung-fu film crime lord BigBad" kind of guy that only gets a pass because of RuleOfFunny (and probably PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy).
91* YouKilledMyFather: Pete was executed by Feng due to his son losing match and him owing money to the Triad that he bet on Randy's victory.

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