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Balls Up: The High Stakes of Low-Brow Comedy | SVU

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Filmspotting

Film History, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.64.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

"Chekhov’s Vampire Fish," Stream-of-Consciousness Satire, and Hitchcockian Throwbacks

Transcript

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0:00.0

Film spotting is presented by Regal Unlimited, the All You Can Watch movie subscription pass that pays for itself in just two visits.

0:07.9

See any standard 2D movie, anytime, with no blackout dates or restrictions.

0:13.2

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0:31.2

Mark Wahlberg and Paul Walter Houser are a pair of marketing executives who go balls out pitching a World Cup sponsorship in Peter Farrelly's Balls Up, which is new this week on Prime Video.

0:40.7

Hello, I'm Jordan Hoffman.

0:42.5

And I'm Matt Singer with more movies, more series, more stuff going straight to streaming than ever before.

0:49.9

It felt like the right time for a podcast that keeps track of it all, or if not all, then most or some.

0:58.6

And this week, along with a critical analysis of balls up, we've also got more streaming recommendations.

1:04.9

We've got a list of this week's new to streaming titles, and Jordan and producer Sam are going to square off in our new game keychain. Wow, I don't

1:13.3

even know what keychain is. I'm excited. It's all coming up on FilmSpotting, colon SVU.

1:26.1

Welcome to FilmSpotting SVU. I'm Matt Sanger.

1:29.2

Thanks to everyone who checked out the first episode of the New Look SVU last week,

1:34.7

and then came back this week.

1:36.4

Hooray, welcome back.

1:38.0

And welcome back to listeners who waited eight years for our return.

1:41.4

I want to give a special shout out to one listener, Zach, an old school

1:45.6

SVU listener in Tokyo, Japan. He wrote us such a lovely note after the return episode. I forwarded

1:53.1

it to the whole team. Jordan saw it. Thank you so much, Zach. Glad you're back with us. And thanks to

1:58.6

everyone out there for making Bazuga the world's new number one streaming service.

2:05.5

We launched Bazuga on the last episode.

2:09.2

We announced it.

2:10.5

And then literally like two days later, Reed Hastings announces he is leaving Netflix.

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