Dodgeball

[Zixar]

If political movies aren't your bag, you might try a comedy. Sure, it's a sports movie about an underdog team, so you know exactly how everything's going to go before the lights go down. Yet, Dodgeball still manages to pack more jokes into this tired formula than most. Ben Stiller steals the show as an idiotic over-macho gym owner trying to take over Vince Vaughn's gym. They need money, and of course, the only way to get it is win a Dodgeball championship. (The car wash idea is funny, though...)

If you go into it expecting a slapstick juvenile testicular-injury-joke movie, you won't be disappointed, but if you pay a little more attention, you'll see that it's actually a well-crafted parody of every sports movie. It's the little touches, like the TV coverage is on the fictitious ESPN 8 - "The Ocho". The little commercial they do for "The Ocho" could have been a throwaway joke, but watch it closely.

Three stars out of four, and no, you haven't seen all the funny bits in the preview already.

[Nottawayfer]

Thanks for the information. I wanted to see that movie. I really like Ben Stiller. He's making quite a name for himself in comedies. We watched "Along came Polly" last night. I liked the toilet scene after they went to the Indian restaurant.

[Tom Strange]

This movie is by the "Old School" guys isn't it?

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If you go into it expecting a slapstick juvenile testicular-injury-joke movie, you won't be disappointed,

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That's exactly why I'm going to see it! :D-->

[Zixar]

Tom: I don't know, although Vince Vaughn was in both. I do know I laughed more at DB than I did at OS.