Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story

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Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story

PG-13

2004

1h 32m

Comedy

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Average Joe's Gym and its owner, Peter La Fleur (Vince Vaughn), are both down on their luck. A fancy competing gym called Globo-Gym, run by the maniacal health nut White Goodman (Ben Stiller), is about to put Average Joe's out of business unless Peter can raise $50,000 to keep his mortgage. To save the gym, Peter and a ragtag group of Average Joe's members and employees enter a dodgeball contest with a big cash prize. In response, White forms his own Globo-Gym team to rout the competition.

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Critics Consensus

Proudly profane and splendidly silly, Dodgeball is a worthy spiritual successor to the goofball comedies of the 1980s.

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Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

08/14/2007

4/4

This masterpiece of modern cinema depends upon a single truism: A guy getting hit in the nuts a hundred times in a row is funny a hundred times.

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Nev Pierce

BBC.com

08/31/2004

4/5

Crude, daft and hilarious, Dodgeball is the best mainstream American comedy in years.

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Empire Magazine

08/28/2004

4/5

Watching people being hit in the balls has never been so much fun.

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Cory Woodroof

615 Film

06/09/2022

We need more studio comedies where Stephen Root is a lead cast member.

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

03/02/2022

3/5

a few lapses aside, Dodgeball has its heart in the right place when it comes to embracing a team of lovable misfits overcoming ridiculous odds

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Kate Robertson

The Post NZ

09/03/2021

It's laugh-a-minute comedy at it's finest. What could be better?

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Shoten N

@Shoten 2d

Very good comedy movie. It aged pretty good. Better than I remembered.

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James E

@JamesE167 Jan 5

If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball. Nostalgia makes this a charming movie, and the quotable lines come in every scene.

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Kymber H

@SandlotLover17 Dec 27

Hilarious underdog story about one gym playing another gym in a dodgeball tournament. I do feel that there is a little too much sexual humor for a pg13 rating though.

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Charlie

@KIDCRITIC Dec 26

Watched Dodgeball: A true underdog story this year. This is a great comedy with Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn hilarious. It is about a man named White Goodman who runs a million dollar gym called Globo-Gym. Then there is a man named Peter who runs a gym that is named Average Joe’s and is significantly not as big as Globo-Gym.He needs money so he scraps together people at his gym so he can play in a big competition of Dodgeball to try and save his gym from being bought by Globo-Gym. The quality is good. The storytelling is good and gives off in my opinion 2000’s vibes and the acting is great from both Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller. Overall I would rate this movie a 5.0 stars out of 5 stars. My favorite scene is when Coach Patches throws a wrench at Justin and says "If you can dodge a wrench, You can dodge a ball". I would recommend this movie.

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Gregory S

Dec 17

Simply one of the greatest comedies that was ever made. Also, this movie has some of the greatest cameo scenes of all time.

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Camille D

Nov 30

I grew up on this movie reminds me of my childhood. Its constant laughs and iconic in our circles. This film is constantly funny and a long time favourite of mine. It's not winning any Oscars but perfect for 90 minutes of laughs!

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Synopsis

Average Joe's Gym and its owner, Peter La Fleur (Vince Vaughn), are both down on their luck. A fancy competing gym called Globo-Gym, run by the maniacal health nut White Goodman (Ben Stiller), is about to put Average Joe's out of business unless Peter can raise $50,000 to keep his mortgage. To save the gym, Peter and a ragtag group of Average Joe's members and employees enter a dodgeball contest with a big cash prize. In response, White forms his own Globo-Gym team to rout the competition.

Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber
Producer: Stuart Cornfeld, Ben Stiller
Screenwriter: Rawson Marshall Thurber
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Co: Red Hour Productions
Rating: PG-13 (Rude Humor|Language|Sexual Humor)
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 18, 2004, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 25, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $114.3M
Runtime: 1h 32m
Sound Mix: Surround, DTS, Dolby SRD, SDDS
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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