Dodgeball is simply awful, like everything Stiller has been in since The Royal Tenenbaums,

Rating: Null/10 (26 June 2004)

The movie's go-to gag consists of people getting smashed in the groin or the face with a red rubber ball. This gets old after the first dozen times or so. Anyone with a sizable role in Dodgeball gets mired in the script's dissipated tone. Two of the climactic jokes involve Happy Days references. How tenuous is that? BEN Stiller's overbearing schtick officially reaches its expiration date with the desperate and puerile "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story." There are a few scattered laughs to be found amid the sports-underdog treacle and crass body-fluid gags that constitute this, the fourth Stiller comedy of the year (so far) - but the diminutive actor's cartoonish mugging is responsible for exactly none of them. This movie reeks of desperation from the start, resorting way too often to the "Funniest Home Videos"-style spectacle of people getting hit in the crotch with red rubber balls. Bad...