By: Robert Acosta
Cast:
Vince Vaughn as Peter La Fleur
Ben Stiller as White Goodman
Christine Taylor as Kate Veatch
Rip Torn as Patches O'Houlihan
Plot: In order to save his gym, Peter must form a dodgeball team and win first place.
Review: Ahhh dodgeball. All the memories from high school of throwing around a rubber ball, trying to knock somebody out. Good times.
The 2004 movie Dodgeball definitely brought back that nostalgia and comedy along the way.
The story revolves around Peter and finding a way to save his dead beat gym. He is talked into joining a dodgeball tournament with a team to try and win $50,000 to save his gym.
Vince Vaughn is a pretty funny guy and this was one of his first actual funny roles. Vaughn is over looked in comedy sometimes due to some of the hard hitters in this genre like Steve Carell, Zach Galifinakis, Seth Rogen and many others.
Throw in Ben Stiller, who unfortunately looks to be getting less relevant and funny now. Luckily, he does have some funny scenes in here and his decline doesn't really start here. His role as White Goodman, rival gym owner to Peter, gives us some quotable moments like "Nobody makes me bleed my own blood."
Also, Stiller's beautiful wife Christine Taylor is in the movie and has her moments. You can't go wrong with her in the movie.
The dodgeball is actually funny to watch too, which adds to the movie. If the dodgeball sucked but the comedy was still ok, than the movie would have just been ok, or less. But because dodgeball was actually both good and funny to watch, the movie gets a huge bump in rating.
Overall, dodgeball is no 40 year old virgin and won't leaving you laughing for most of the time. The comedy is still there, still quotable and serviceable enough that is worth a watch.
Rating: 3.5 out of 5
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