Balls Up (now streaming on Amazon Prime Video) is a Peter Farrelly-directed comedy starring Mark Wahlberg and Paul Walter Hauser as condom salesmen. That sentence alone will determine if you’re in or out on this one. Although Farrelly won a Best Picture Oscar for Green Book, he’ll never shake the grossout un-PC reputation he earned directing Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin and There’s Something About Mary with his brother Bobby Farrelly – and now he once again indulges his crasser impulses, returning to his crotch-based roots for a dick-joke mixtape passing for a movie. Too bad the tape snaps and gums up the heads about two minutes in, though.
BALLS UP: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?
The Gist: Elijah (Hauser) invented an innovative condom that covers both the wang and the yarbles, and Brad (Wahlberg) is the guy who’s going to sell the
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