Caleb played by Jake Lacy from the final season of The Office television series is a senior preparing to graduate from college. He is in his fifth year and has already been in college for too long. But he doesn't quite want to leave yet. He sees the "concrete wall" of commitment laid out in front of him and gets scared. He runs away from this iron cage of commitment and responsibility by forming an intramural football team as an escape. The group that he forms can best be summed up by the advice they give each other on how to get with freshman girls in college. You have to remember:, "A little knock knock, welcome to class
tap that ass".
The jokes throughout the movie are very intelligent and many are easily missed. But the movie is clearly geared towards men. There is one quip about Uday Hussein being a Quaker that was particularly heinous. During a team meeting a member of the team asks, "What's more dangerous, a man with no fear or a man with nothing to lose?". Caleb turns the question on its head with, "What about a man who's not afraid of losing?".
"Balls Out" is the rare comedy that is both funny and self-aware. The film is chock full of hilarious moments like during another team meeting when the adopted mentor of the team teaches, "There is a classic structure to all underdog sports movies. Rocky, Hosiers, Air Buds 1,2, 3 and 5". One teammate interrupts, "What about Air Bud 4?". "A dog playing baseball? Are you insane?".
Watch this movie if looking for a few laughs. It is sure to deliver. As the stoner commentator narrates at the end of the film, "In my nine and a half years of college, I thought I'd seen it all. I witnessed a 2,000 cup game of beer pong that claimed the lives of seven bros. I've seen Frisbee so ultimate, it threatened the supremacy of God himself. I've even seen my colleague Dan here swallow two keys of pure Bolivian heroin to make good on a series of increasingly misguided cockfighting bets. But I never thought I'd witness such an amazing game of intramural football".
The jokes throughout the movie are very intelligent and many are easily missed. But the movie is clearly geared towards men. There is one quip about Uday Hussein being a Quaker that was particularly heinous. During a team meeting a member of the team asks, "What's more dangerous, a man with no fear or a man with nothing to lose?". Caleb turns the question on its head with, "What about a man who's not afraid of losing?".
"Balls Out" is the rare comedy that is both funny and self-aware. The film is chock full of hilarious moments like during another team meeting when the adopted mentor of the team teaches, "There is a classic structure to all underdog sports movies. Rocky, Hosiers, Air Buds 1,2, 3 and 5". One teammate interrupts, "What about Air Bud 4?". "A dog playing baseball? Are you insane?".
Watch this movie if looking for a few laughs. It is sure to deliver. As the stoner commentator narrates at the end of the film, "In my nine and a half years of college, I thought I'd seen it all. I witnessed a 2,000 cup game of beer pong that claimed the lives of seven bros. I've seen Frisbee so ultimate, it threatened the supremacy of God himself. I've even seen my colleague Dan here swallow two keys of pure Bolivian heroin to make good on a series of increasingly misguided cockfighting bets. But I never thought I'd witness such an amazing game of intramural football".