Not just not funny.

Rating: 2/10 (21 February 2005)

I have said before that I like Ben Stiller's comedic style. I have to qualify that statement now. I like Ben Stiller's average guy that can't get a break style, made famous by "Meet the Parents". I really hate his "Zoolander" type comedy. It's dumb. Not "Dumb and Dumber" dumb. It's dumb like that guy in your office who thinks he's really funny and always does that same little joke, accent, or quip that wasn't really funny to anybody but him the first time but he keeps doing it anyway dumb. It's not funny and it's annoying that he thinks it is funny. "Dodgeball" is that guy.
There were a handful of jokes that did get me to laugh out loud, simply because they were so far out in left field. ("If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball CLANG!") But the minutes (which seemed like hours) in between those few jokes were not just not funny, they were border-line insulting. Am I really expected to laugh at a redneck lusting after a male cheerleader wannabe while he wash's the redneck's big IL' 4x4? That's not funny. That's disturbing. And please, please, please, someone tell Hollywood that there is nothing funny about a geriatric with a bondage fetish. Ick.