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Dodgeball - A True Underdog Story (Widescreen Edition) (2004)

Starring: Lance Armstrong, Hank Azaria Rating: Unrated Format: DVD
3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (304 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Lance Armstrong, Hank Azaria, Jason Bateman, Gary Cole, Jamal Duff
  • Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language: French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rating: Unrated
  • Studio: 20th Century Fox
  • DVD Release Date: December 7, 2004
  • Run Time: 92 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (304 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0006419IM
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #10,472 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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How'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 Vaughn) faces foreclosure unless he can raise $50,000 in 30 days. The solution: A dodgeball tournament offering $50K to the winners, in which Vaughn 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, Vaughn, 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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You'll dodge, duck, dip, dive. . . and laugh out loud watching Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller settle their differences in a winner-take-all dodgeball competition. Under the painful tutelage of legendary ADAA champ, Patches O'Houlihan (Rip Torn), Peter LaFleur (Vaughn) and his Average Joes take on the Purple Cobras, led by egomaniacal fitness guru, White Goodman (Stiller). It's an over-the-top underdog tale filled with hilarious sight gags and balls-out fun!

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Boink!, July 3, 2004
By Wheelchair Assassin (The Great Concavity) - See all my reviews
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I'm always a sucker for some goofy, lowbrow humor, and I went to see "Dodgeball" expecting just that. Suffice to say, the movie more than delivered on its promise. Combining the sports satire of "BASEketball" with the slacker comedy of last year's sleeper hit "Old School," "Dodgeball" is a fast-paced, brilliantly cast howler of a movie for everyone who remembers the ordeal of junior-high gym class. The movie's message isn't exactly subtle, as it relentlessly needles our country's twin obsessions with sports and image in a contest that pits unassuming regular guys against musclebound jerks.

Representing the side of the good is Vince Vaughn's likable everyman Peter LaFleur and and his band of misfits from Average Joe's Gym, where it's okay just to be yourself. Facing them is Ben Stiller's furiously narcissistic White Goodman and the walking super-egos of Globo-Gym, where self-hatred and insecurity rule and the motto is "We're Better Than You and We Know It." Those who played dodgeball in school probably remember how much degradation and humiliation was often involved, and the movie has a ball with this idea, never more so than with a hilariously anachronistic instructional video featuring Hank Azaria as dodgeball hero Patches O'Houlihan.

With the $50,000 Peter needs to keep his gym alive hanging in the balance, the now wheelchair-bound patches makes a triumphant return to dodgeball as the team's coach. In a brilliant takeoff on movie training montages, Patches prepares Peter's ragtag team for competition by dispensing such wisdom as "aim low" and "if you can dodge traffic, you can dodge a ball." It all comes to a head in the American Dodgeball Association of America's championship in Las Vegas, with Peter's ragtag group facing White's imposing juggernaut as Gary Cole and Jason Bateman (two of our finest and most underappreciated actors) provide crackling commentary for the telecast on ESPN 8.

While it does contain a few flat spots and excessive moments, there's still a lot to recommend "Dodgeball" to the average viewer. Its easygoing goofball humor, led by Stiller's furious mugging as White, is intelligent without straining the mind too hard. Sports fans like myself will almost surely get a kick out of the movie's knowing winks at the excesses of America's sporting culture, such as the very existence of an eighth ESPN channel. And the movie's casting is superb, as Vaughn, Stiller, Cole, and Bateman are joined by the ever-hot Christine Taylor, Stephen Root of "Office Space" fame, Rip Torn (as the older version of Patches O'Houlihan), and Lance Armstrong, whose cameo is easily among the movie's high-water marks. All in all, "Dodgeball" is a welcome break in a summer-movie season too often marked by stupid special-effects blockbusters.

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14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars "If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.", October 3, 2004
This movie was awesome! The stars, Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller, are hilarious. The plot is a little... lame (Vince Vaughn's gym is going to be bought by Ben Stiller's, unless he can get enough money to keep the gym; one of the members of the crappy gym suggests they go into a dodgeball tournament.) but it makes up in its hilariousness. Just the characters are funny; there's one who thinks he's a pirate, another wants to impress a girl by going on the cheerleading team. In one part, they get the wrong box of team uniforms, and... well I won't tell you'll have to see. Basically this whole movie is funny, so see it!
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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars What a comedy is supposed to be, September 5, 2004
By cmurphy82 (Granby, CO) - See all my reviews
I'm a little annoyed with all of the negative reviews for this movie, considering it is the funniest movie I have seen for a while. People are forgetting what a comedy's purpose in life is; to make people laugh. I was sitting in a large movie theater, full of people, who of all things, were laughing.

Ben Stiller plays a character, that yes, we may have seen before, but that's because he does it well. It works. Vince Vaughn plays your average joe, with an army full of hilarious sidekicks, what more do you need? How about some of the best cameo appearances I've seen. People need to stop thinking so much when they go to movies like this....just sit back and enjoy it! It's not going to change the world, but it made quite the impression on me!
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4.0 out of 5 stars An Awesome Film!!!
This is a very funny film about a laid-back guy named Peter LaFleur, who is about to lose his decaying gym called Average Joe's because the gym across the street, Globo-Gym owned... Read more
Published 5 days ago by Pumpkin Man

5.0 out of 5 stars Patches O'Houlihan:If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball. Justin: What?
i absolutely lLOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this movie i saw it when i was in junior high and it never got old to me, I love this movie. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Zoe Folkes

4.0 out of 5 stars Dodge, Dip, Duck, Dive & Dodge
I also found something interesting during my visit to the Special Features. The first thing that you notice is that the layout of the section is Average Joes and the little scene... Read more
Published 1 month ago by S. Schwartz

5.0 out of 5 stars Funny movie but unplayable in my Blu-Ray dvd player
I won't repeat what many other people who liked this movie have said. That's why I'm giving it 5 stars. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Kenneth L. Whittier

1.0 out of 5 stars Weakest Link is the Star
I saw this movie on an airplane, flying New York to Sao Paulo. A long flight, so I was ready for something lame to pass the time. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Marco Polo "Bruce"

3.0 out of 5 stars Nuttier Than A Yuletide Log
DODGEBALL is kind of like passing wind in church; there's disbelief in having done it, and a derived guilty pleasure in getting away with it. Read more
Published 3 months ago by D. Mikels

3.0 out of 5 stars 'Patches' Mends This Formulamatic Comedy
Well, here is yet another sleazy PG-13 modern-day comedy that also has genuinely funny characters and scenes. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Craig Connell

3.0 out of 5 stars Goofy plot, but fun to watch with some really funny points.
This movie had some pretty funny parts, which definately beef up the somewhat week story line. And Vince Vaughan and Ben Stiller really play their parts well, which keep things... Read more
Published 5 months ago by R. Ballister

4.0 out of 5 stars one of the funniest movies I've seen in a long time
I loved this movie and I would recomend this to any Vince Vaun or Ben Stiller fan. this is a laugh a loud every minuet film and just written very well.
Published 6 months ago by Christopher Valentino

5.0 out of 5 stars I LOVED this movie!
O..M..G!!!! Hands down this funniest movie I've ever seen. Ben Stiller is the hilarious, even better than Zoolander. If you like silly, this is the movie for you!
Published 6 months ago by B. Carter

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