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“Snowy Bing Bongs Across the North Star Combat Zone” is, beginning with its very name, fully ballistic. I mean this in both senses of the word. Calling the humor of the title (and the film itself) “offbeat” is a near-criminal understatement — so “ballistic” — and then there are beach ball projectiles, mostly implied ballistics, from beginning to end.