Armed with Seann William Scott's gloriously over-the-top turn as the title character, Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach almost manages to overcome its
tedious storyline and hopelessly erratic
pace to become a minor comedic masterpiece - yet there eventually does reach a point at which Scott's performance, ingratiating as it is, simply proves unable to compensate for the
film's myriad
of deficiencies.
The combination
of an overblown narrative and an overwrought style, and neither structure aspect's being as realized as they should be, render the
film, well, sort
of monotonous, at least when
pacing is further stiffened by a chilled directorial atmosphere which dull things down, occasionally as
tedious.