A film that has no idea of what it is

Rating: 3/10 (4 June 2005)

This film turns into exactly what it is trying to satirise, a second rate sports movie. it has very little pacing, sharpness or wit primarily because it is trying to please everybody. Vince Vaughan is given an absolute shocker of a script to get through and Stiller's talentless wife succeeds, as she did in zoolander, to murder the film.
the best moments come with the absurd slapstick humour, spanners being thrown, people being run over etc., but these seem to come out of no where. Stiller's character has the best moments, presumably because they came from him and not the dreadful writer director who squeezes the life out of most moments for potential humour.
I felt that this movie would have been much better if it decided to be a gross-out - a la the farrellys - or an clever satire on American life - a la Christopher guest, it hints at both and ends up being a watery mess.
it's a shame because as an idea it clearly has legs and includes hilarious cameos from lance armstrong and David hasslehof who were good sports for doing it.
a no brainer for a hangover day...