Title: Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
Genre: Comedy
Rating: 7/10
Review: Well, normally I stay away from anything that has Ben Stiller in it. I don't find him that funny, and he plays the same role in all his movies. Ok, so I downloaded it, so why not watch it. The movie is a stock Hollywood underdog makes it big, with slapstick comedy. The premise of the movie is of a gym called Average Joe's whose owner is layed back to the point where he does not collect memberships, do books and allows his finances deteriorate to the point where the bank is ready to reposes the property. The antagonist is Ben Stiller who owns Globo Gym across the street who seems Average Joe's as pathetic and deserves to be shut down. So with the bank demanding $50,000, or foreclosing the property, Average Joe's needs to come up with the cash. As fate would have it, there is a $50,000 dodgeball competition. So they begin their training, some antics occur, and the work their way to Las Vegas and the main competition. I was surprised at how many big actors ended up in this movie, David Hasselhoff, Chuck Norris, and William Shatner for starters. One really anecdote was over dinner I was telling Jodie about Night Rider and David Hasselhoff and how Germans seem to worship him. And ironically enough, in the movie he was the German coach and yelling at them after they loose to Average Joe's gym, and he takes a framed picture of himself and smashes it on the ground as he keeps yelling at them in German. This of course brought a round of side bursting laugher from both of us. Well, Globo Gym decides to take down Average Joe's for ever and joins the competition and of course it ends up Average Joe's vs. Globo Gym. Of course Average Joe's gym wins, but there is a few surprises and twists. Over all, this was not a waste of time, it was a good laugh, the movie did have a lot of little jokes all over the place, for Dodgeball, Go Balls Deep on the banner to David to little background comments about Canadians. This is a renter, that's about it.