Grab life by the ball!

Rating: 2/10 (15 October 2005)

Misfits and half-wits play with their balls. Dodgeball is silly and parallels stupidity. Silly does not necessarily correlate with funny. Peter LaFluer(Vince Vaughn)runs a worn out gym called Average Joe's. Faltering and antiquated equipment and with mostly non-paying clients the gym is forced to undergo foreclosure by a sharp looking accountant, Kate(Christine Taylor). The gym's biggest competition comes from GloboGym owned by White Goodman(Ben Stiller). The need for big bucks fast...Average Joe's enters a Las Vegas dodgeball tournament, where predictably they meet opposition from the perfectly coiffed Goodman and his team. There is just something about the sound of a hard thrown dodgeball meeting flesh.
I kept waiting to hear some trademark profanity from Vaughn...no go. Stiller in no matter what role annoys me...more so this time. Announcer Jason Bateman and coach Rip Torn were almost show stealers. Also in the cast: Justin Long, Jamal Duff, Missi Pyle and Hank Azaria. This dodgeball nowhere resembles the sport you played in Junior High School.