mind-numbingly dull - be warned

Rating: 1/10 (15 February 2006)

this is a warning for all of you who thought that some of Ben Stiller's Comedies were kind of funny if a bit dumb - i liked 'meet the parents, i even liked Zoolander -
yeah i understand this movie is not meant to be "good" or imaginative it's meant to be dumb fun. it's meant to be "univentively unfunny and therefore funny" - well it just isn't.
here's the plot : sleep-inducingly dull plastic bodybuilder-gym-owners throw themselves and balls at each-other.
Dodgeball is probably just as bad as "duplex", "along came polly" and "Meet The Fockers" which surely says quite something. it might even be worse, i just don't know, as it's hard to imagine anything even further down below in the "harmless-but-vomit-inducing-family-comedy" - genre. which sadly seems to be a $$$$$ - genre at the moment. though the "harmless" part is certainly debatable. i am convinced that utter mind-numbing dullness is in fact very closely linked to pure evil.
well maybe you might enjoy this movie as a kind of dystopian horror-fantasy. most characters seem to be disturbing and incredibly dull latex creatures.
the whole Gym -thing is horrible enough in itself - even in reality. Men - especially male actors - seem to be aspiring to become these horribly tanned plastic muscle-mutants i just hate that look. it's absolutely ugly and of course mind-bogglingly idiotic.
the sets + costumes + makeup etc. are just as horribly lacking in any sense of imagination or style or comedy as the incredibly unfunny one-liners throughout the movie.
as for the disgusting stuff, obviously they had to keep it lame-disgusting to get a PG-13 rating, having said that though, there are extremely idiotic brutal scenes - e.g. a mad coach throwing edged and pointed metal tools at kids to make them a more competitive dodgeball-team and them loving him for it.Of course we don't get to see one single drop of blood. and it's exactly that kind of absurd scenarios coupled with extremely reactionary ideas,prudishness and pseudo-funny clichéd non-jokes that makes this movie truly offensive.
OK, enough. you have been warned.