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Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber |
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| Ben Stiller |
Alan Tudyk |
| Vince Vaughn |
Justin Long |
| Christine Taylor |
Stephen Root |
| Rip Torn |
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| Underachievers compete in a dodgeball tournament to save their gym. |
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| One-word View: Hilarious |
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| I was a horrible kid. It was not that I got into trouble, but I just did not know how to have fun; I was way too serious. Just as if the proposition was offered yesterday, I can recall being seven and intellectualizing dodgeball. Why in the hell would someone willingly get in front of a zooming, stinging-on-impact object? It made no sense to me. While I have made significant headway in becoming a real goofball in my adult life, missing out on the childhood fun is one of my regrets. So, it was with a weightier purpose than just laughs that I went to see Dodgeball.
Peter (Vince) is the owner of Average Joe's gym and according to Kate (Christine), the bank representative, Peter has 30 days to pay off his $50,000 mortgage or lose the gym. His adversary, the winged-hair (in Farrah Fawcett style), buffed White Goodman (Ben) is ready to buy out the foreclosure note, tear down the gym, and build a parking garage for his Globo Gym customers. Peter's only option? The Las Vegas Dodgeball Tournament shown on ESPN 8 "The Ocho". He and Kate, along with a handful of geek gym members qualify for the tournament thanks to some pretty troubled girl scouts and sheer luck. Las Vegas offers an array of teams including lumberjacks and street kids dressed in Kangols all there to win the grand prize. Look for the cameos, as they are hilarious. Quite simply, the humor was really sick and I loved it!
If you liked Zoolander or There's Something About Mary, then you will probably enjoy this, as well. I know that I should not laugh at the visuals of children getting walloped with balls or poor losers receiving wrench thwacks, but I just could not help myself. Those scenes and White's absurd stupidity, not to mention his crotch pump, were just plain funny. I'm sure that you have seen the trailer by now. If you think that it looks really stupid and beneath you, then you are probably right. You shouldn't go. However, if you want to just release for 90 minutes, check it out. This movie cracked me up and while I was not able to capture the exact joy that was missed in childhood, I sure did leave the theater feeling pretty doggone good.
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