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  Review by Nathan Rabin ★½ 1

  I saw this at Sundance and was all, "This movie is crap." Then I rewatched it for review and was all, "Yep, total crap." #Professional

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  Review by single white femalien ★★½

  i guess the best thing about this is that it made me feel nostalgic for my shitty childhood summers spent in marylands biggest trash hole

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  Review by Larry Sternshein ★★★★★

  I love this movie and I don't need your sass.

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  Review by Vanina ★½

  White middle class male nostalgia. Like 'Me and Earl and the Dying Girl' this film insists on giving the protagonist a black best friend who is far more likable than the lead but who remains hugely underused and remains a stereotype (his dad's a b-boy).

  The kid is absolutely crap at ping pong, by the way.

  I do like Susan Sarandon as an intense table tennis coach, climactic ping pong battles and suicide sodas, though.

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  Review by Thomas McCallum ★½

  Performances: 2/10
  Story: 3/10
  Production: 5/10
  Overall: 3.33/10

  Ping Pong Summer is only interesting in that it really isn't trying to tell a special story. It's not particularly funny, there's no real emotional turmoil (there's a really long "climactic" ping pong battle at the end. I guess that's cool). Instead, all it's eggs are in the nostalgia basket. Having been born in 1988, on the tail end of the 80's, I just couldn't connect with that nostalgia, so essentially there was nothing here for me. Writer/Director Michael Tully punts his storyline for this retrospective look at a particular time and place and if you have no rooted interest in that time then you'll probably feel the same.

  It's not like…

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  Review by gh ★★★

  fck you, this is corny fun.
  Big fan of radical miracle: groovy spaceman feels & ping pong vibes + i love Susan Sarandon.

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  Review by Dominic Cobb ★ 4

  STORY 1/5
  WRITING .5/5
  ACTING 1.5/5
  MUSIC 3/5
  CINEMATOGRAPHY 3/5

  HOLY CRAP!

  Gah... friggin' shoot me. This! This... this... is .... CRAP.

  THIS WAS IN A FILM FESTIVAL?! I hold films in festivals to higher regards than THIS.

  How could ANYONE like this?!?

  Okay, seriously now... I'm going to try to write a coherent review...

  Kind of.

  Ping Pong Summer is disjointed, atmospherically unstable, stupid, absurd, horribly written (and I do mean HORRIBLY), and despicably acted. The only good part of it is Susan Sarandon (though the cinematography and music is DECENT). I know that's not saying much, but it is just so... horrible! Supposedly it's primary purpose is to be a work of 80's nostalgia. But I was born…

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  Review by Em ★★ 2

  “But it’s bayside… We might as well have just gone to Deep Creek.”

  this film begins in my hometown, it’s set in the state’s most popular vacation spot we visited almost every year of my childhood, and the writer/director was an alum of my high school who I once interviewed for the school paper once lol. finally years later I’m actually watching the whole movie!

  it’s such a local film I can’t see it through any other lens. the nostalgia factor for Ocean City is such a huge part of the appeal and does so much of the work here, I wonder what anyone not from Maryland sees in this. 

  echoing ever other review, how on earth did they cast Susan…

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  Review by Terence Page ★½

  This is the most stupidest uneven script that's filled with the most annoying and cliche characters that I've seen this year.

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  Review by Lagerlout ★★★

  Film #11 for the Melbourne International Film Festival

  I had heard talk that this film was slow, difficult and overall a boring time. I think what might be the problem is the setting in which the film is watched. I saw this with a packed cinema full of people looking to have a fun time, listen to some 80s tunes and remember what it's like being a bit shit at everything in your life.

  It captures those moments, those people and the memories around it. Everyone's parents were cheap and uncool but they all meant well. We all had the creepy uncles and the weird sisters and the dodgy holiday locations, but at the time it seemed normal and fun…

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  Review by Rakestraw ★★½ 1

  Writer/Director Michael Tully packs a load of '80s references into Ping Pong Summer, some work while others do not as one can expect. Some of the ones that really worked for me worked on a personal level given my childhood spending every 4th of July weekend in Deep Creek, Maryland and summer vacations at Ocean City. Plus, I was young kid obsessed with hip-hop as well but I, sadly, never owned a pair of those sick zipper pants, or high-top Nikes, or giant boombox.

  Ping Pong Summer is about three things:
  1) Ping Pong
  2) Summers
  3) Hip-Hop
  4) Friendship
  Ping Pong Summer is about four things.

  Rad Miracle (Marcello Conte) and his family go on summer vacation to Ocean…

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  Review by BensMB ★½

  Oh god this was actually so fucking awful I can’t even believe this exists 

  
  So anyway I loved it