Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 12/09/2008 Run time: 92 minutes Rating: Pg13How’s this for impressive trivia: Dodgeball faced off against The Terminal in opening-weekend competition, and 29-year-old writer-director Rawson Marshall Thurber aced Steven Spielberg by a score of $30 to $18.7 in box-office millions. That’s no mean feat for a newcomer, but Thurber’s lowbrow script and rapid-fire direction–along with a sublime cast of screen comedians–proved to be just what moviegoers were ravenous for: a consistently hilarious, patently formulaic romp in which the underdog owner of Average Joe’s Gym (Vince Vaughan) faces foreclosure unless he can raise $50,000 in 30 days. The solution: A dodgeball tournament offering $50K to the winners, in which Vaughan and his nerdy clientele team up against the preening, abhorrently narcissistic owner (Ben Stiller) of Globo Gym, who’s threatening a buy-out. That’s it for story; any 5-year-old could follow it with brainpower to spare. But Thurber, Vaughan, Stiller, and their well-cast costars (including Stiller’s off-screen wife, Christine Taylor) keep the big laughs coming for 96 nonsensical minutes. With spot-on cameos by champion bicyclist Lance Armstrong, David Hasselhoff, Hank Azaria, Chuck Norris, and William Shatner, and a crudely amusing coda for those who watch past the credits, Dodgeball is no masterpiece, but you can bet Spielberg was unexpectedly humbled by its popular appeal. –Jeff Shannon
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March 27, 2008
#1
this movie blows, im so sick of these lame comedies can’t anyone make a funny movie anymore instead of crap like this and 50 First Dates or the worst of them all Anchorman, if you want something to laugh at i recommend buying a season of Wildboyz. I rented Dodgeball and i still feel ripped off!
March 27, 2008
#2
Okay. When I sat down to watch this movie i expected it to be packed with histerical jokes, funny Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn acting, etc. Much to my dismay, I did not find one hilarious thing in it. My family described it as one of the funniest movies they’ve ever seen, and that they had tears coming to their eyes while watching it. Trust me, this movie is not even as close to as funny as it’s cracked up to be. I sort of chuckled at ONE SINGLE PART in the movie, that’s it. Don’t waste your time watching it, don’t waste your money buying it either.
March 27, 2008
#3
Basically, you know the story. Vince Vaughn owns a ratty, falling down, looser membership gym accross the street from the Global-Gym owned by ben stiller as an over the top fitness trainer. Basically, ben “I’ve never turned down a movie role” stiller has two characters he can play. One is the along Came Polly, Meet The Parents, Duplex, middle aged zero-self confidence neurotic nerd, and the other is Derek Zoolander. This is who he played in Dodgeball. It was bascially zoolander all over again. I actually had a chance to see zoolander this weekend because TBS was playing it 37 times in a row, and after seeing Dodgeball, it’s obvious that almost all the same things that were funny about dodgeball were the same exact jokes in zoolander. THANK GOD they got vince vaughn, I suppose Owen Wilson was busy doing something so they couldn’t get him.
The only thing REALLY good about this movie was rip torns character, the Mr. Miagi of dodgeball himself, who comes out of retirement to coach the underdog team. He was funny.
The jokes were terrible. There weren’t nearly enough scenes of the actual dodgeball matches. If you’ve seen the trailer for this movie, then you’ve seen probably half of the actual dodgeball game scenes already. They only played ONE GAME before they got in the finals. What a joke. Nearly 99% of the laughs come when somebody gets hit in the balls with a dodgeball, which happens like every scene. Except for when they’re getting hit in the balls with a crescent wrench, but you’ll have to see the movie to learn about that one.
So, all in all, I really wish I would have waited for this to come out on DVD, and gone and seen Chronicles of Riddick instead.
March 27, 2008
#4
This is one of the dumbest movies I have ever seen, not even “stupid” funny, the people that liked or loved this movie voted for Bush……..The Presidential Inauguration of George Bush, now that was funny……..The fact that people found this movie funny is simply amazing and reflects the lack of taste so prevalent in our society
March 28, 2008
#5
There is nothing I like more than a movie about balls. I like it when the whole plot is based around big hairy balls. Would you believe that in this movie they are throwing their balls at each other while Ben Stiller tries to act like he knows how to act. Oh sure, Stiller is the villan in the movie. But he is about as convincing as a stick of butter is tough in the microwave. The only reason I gave this movie two stars is because I like balls.