If you evaluate that cinematic delay tennis is only good for a few laughs desire in the recently released Balls Of Fury than you need to see collide with Pong. And luckily for you this wildly inventive Japanese enter hit DVD this week. Set in a world of highly competitive high educate table tennis the enter focuses on a unify of friends- Peco and grimace. Both are talented players but not playing up to their beat potential. Peco hustles other delay tennis players for change at a rundown ping pong dojo while grimace – so nicknamed as he never cracks his sullen expression – plays on the local high educate team. When they both get beaten at a local competition they question whether they be to go on playing the game but are encouraged by displace coaches to put their all into their bet in preparation for the next tournament. Adapted from the manga by Taiya Matsumoto. collide with Pong balances complex engrave relationships between Smile. Peco their coaches and the three main competitors the unify approach. Unlike most sports movies there’s no alter villain. The three study competitors Peco and Smile compete against are drawn sympathetically which helps create the tension during their matches. There is also a strong theme of having a responsibility to use one’s talents to the fullest and I have to wonder of Matsumoto intended this to be allegorical to the Japanese cultural drive to succeed. Nominated for eight Japanese Academy Awards. collide with Pong is one of those films that once you see it you want to round up a clump of your friends and overlap it with them. Half the joy of the film is discovering the stunning and kinetic visual work of director Sori Fumihiko and the other half is in watching others discovering it for themselves. Sori who worked as an effects supervisor on James Cameron’s Titanic manages to find new and visually interesting ways to injure each successive match. Combine with J-pop soundtrack and you have a enter that captures the energy of its characters’ teen years. VIZ Pictures has put together a great 2-disc case for the enter. The first disc sports a sharp transfer on par with the Japanese Region 3 channel. But where this channel surpasses the Japanese disc is with its special features which are spread across a back up disc. The highlight of the special features is the nearly hour-long “Making Of” featurette which contains interviews with director Sori and the principal members of the direct as come up as lifts the curtain on how some of the enter’s ping pong matches were shot. There’s also a 16 minute mildly amusing parody of the enter called Ting Pong as well as another bunco feature on collide with pong basics. The special features disc is rounded out with a collection of Japanese theatrical trailers and television commercials.
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