The title tells you the style of humor of this badminton-themed short film, which to be fair does mean you know what you're getting. However to pull off the sort of big silly comedy in the way that Dodgeball did so well, the film needed to be more consistent with this, and build up to bigger moments of excess in a better, more controlled way. Instead the film is quite mixed in what it does, and it can't sell the excess as well as it wants to. I understand the attempt to contrast the smallness of the game with the excess of the action, but mostly this doesn't work (although I did like the occasional cut out of the frantic sounds and edits to reveal a very slow and lob-heavy match).
I guess too much of it felt derivative and dated, with its flashbacks, its Matrix references, and stuff like this. It is a very fine line between silly funny and silly stupid, and too often this film is on the wrong side of that line.
