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  • Actors: Vince Vaughn, Christine Taylor, Ben Stiller, Rip Torn, Justin Long
  • Directors: Rawson Marshall Thurber
  • Format: PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 31 Jan 2005
  • Run Time: 88 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (67 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00066887A
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,874 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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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 US 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 Vaughan) faces foreclosure unless he can raise $50,000 in 30 days. The solution: A dodgeball tournament offering $50K to the winners, in which Vaughan 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, Vaughan, 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


Synopsis

In DODGEBALL - A TRUE UNDERDOG STORY, Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn team up once again (following STARSKY AND HUTCH) for another comic romp. While hilariously satirizing modern-day gym culture, the film also celebrates a sport that has previously been relegated to the elementary school playground. Peter La Fleur (Vaughn) owns the decrepit Average Joe's gym, which has been losing its clients ever since the glitzy Globo Gym opened up across the street. White Goodman (Stiller), Globo Gym's main spokesman, is a preposterously vain egomaniac on the cusp of taking over La Fleur's failing business. La Fleur learns from a beautiful attorney (Christine Taylor) that if he doesn't come up with $50,000 in 30 days, his career running a gym will be over. Potential salvation arrives in the form of a Las Vegas dodgeball tournament, but conquering a sport one hasn't played in several decades isn't such an easy feat. Fortunately for Peter, he finds a coach for his team: the hardheaded, ex-superstar Patches O'Houlihan (Rip Torn). As Peter and his ragtag team make their way to the championship in Las Vegas, they must contend with White, who has assembled a team of his very own. Rawson Marshall Thurber's debut feature is a highly assured work, which features hilarious cameos from Chuck Norris, Lance Armstrong, David Hasselhoff, and William Shatner.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A sport of Violence so obviously very FUNNY!, 2 Feb 2005
Dodgeball is silly. It is mad. It is mindless...
But it is also increadably entertaining and side-splittingly funny.
One of those movies where you can have an ultimately relaxing viewing.

The underdogs are the guys at Average Joe's Gym, where owner Peter La Fleur (Vince Vaughn) takes a low-key approach to the health and physical fitness of his loyal and eccentric members. This is in stark contrast to the high intensity environment across the street at Globo Gym, where White Goodman (Ben Stiller) has made narcissism an art form. La Fleur is informed by attorney Kate Veatch (Christine Taylor) that he has 30 days to come up with $50,000 or lose his gym to (wait for it) Goodman.
It looks like all is lost until the gang at Average Joe's Gym discover that the American Dodgeball Association of America is having its national tournament and the winning teams gets (wait for it) $50,000.

And the perfect partner for this movie would be the Anchorman!

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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars I Really Didn't Want To Like This...But It Was Great., 29 May 2006
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One of the dumbest feel-good movies of recent times...but isn't that it's very reason for existing?

Vince Vaughn stars as Peter LaFleur, an under-achiever with a lot of charisma. His gym is rundown and about to be taken over by White Goodman, played by Ben Stiller. Goodman is LaFleur's rival, he owns Globo Gym and is an egomaniacal fitness freak who places physical prowess above all else.

LaFleur desperately needs money to rescue his gym, Average Joe's, and so tries to win it by entering his team of useless gym members in a Dodgeball tournament. They find themselves squaring off against the Globo Gym team, in a winner-takes-all showdown.

It is very predictable, and puerile, of the sort that the Farrelly brothers have made their trademark. Yet somehow, it manages to rise above these limitations and offer plenty of laugh-out-loud moments.

Rawson Marshall Thurber, director, finds increasingly absurd ways of putting his performers in harm's way, and the training sequences are some of those times. As you watch Average Joe's underdogs being coached by a wheelchair-bound former Dodgeball champion, you will be laughing hysterically. Their coach, Patches O'Houlihan is played by Rip Torn in his robust, dirty old man mode, and he has interesting ideas of teaching. Afterall, if they can dodge a spanner, or a car, surely they can dodge a ball easily.

Meanwhile, White's over-inflated ego produce all manner of cringe-worthy scenarios, whether it's trying to woo his legal advisor (his real-life wife Christine Taylor), or by reading a dictionary, 'To stay in mental shape too'. Ben Stiller knows the 'cringe factor' like the back of his hand.

The casting is definitely a large part of what makes the film work so well. Stiller and Vaughn are both very amusing, and obviously enjoying themselves. Vaughn uses his on-screen smooth talking coolness to deliver a life-long loser that the audience really get behind.

Stiller, just about manages to stay the right side of annoying, and his character is meant to be more than a little irritating anyway. How he managed to stop laughing long enough to film, when he is sporting a 'power-mullet', is unknown, but surely took a lot of skill!

A fair few cameos keep the movie lively, amongst which were Hank Azaria, David Hasselhoff, Chuck Norris, and William Shatner. They all add a little something to the film.

It is in no way complex, choosing a childlike level of laughter with a wanton disregard for taste. It has a lot of energy though, and even those determined not to enjoy it, will likely find themselves chuckling along anyway.

With a tagline, 'Grab life by the balls' what else were we really expecting?
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13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Grabs you by the balls!!!, 14 Jan 2005
With the laughs in the cinema at the moment mainly coming from bad one liners in poor action films any person with some sense or simply an understanding of what's funny can see there is a gap in the Hollywood market for a shinning red ball shaped gem in the name of Dodgeball. Ben Stiller in arguably one of his best roles sends jokes at you as hard as the dodgeballs themselves and yes they hit you right in the ribs. Ben Stiller isn't alone on this war on bad comedy though, Vince Vaughn is by his side as a great straight man for Stiller especially in the great scene with multiple double negatives in the bar.

The film does fit in a story amid the jokes, Ben Stiller plays White Goodman a fitness freak that owns a nearby gym part of a huge fitness franchise which boasts the phrase 'We're better than you, and we know it' he wants to take over Peter LaFleur's (Vince Vaughn) gym 'Average Joes' to stop this LaFleur and his band of less than average Joes must raise $50,000 to pay of various debts and save their much loved gym. Obviously to get this insane amount of money in such a small space of time, the group come up with the clear answer of entering a Las Vegas dogeball tournament which gives the champions of the event $50,000.

This striking piece if comic genius really knows when to make you laugh and well when to make you laugh, and fantastic film that really teaches the viewer to "grab life by the ball".

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