its just not funny

Rating: 1/10 (29 July 2004)

I saw this after seeing Anchorman. Anchorman was unique, bizarre, funny and satirical.
Dodgeball tries to sell itself as somewhat of a parody of those typical underdog stories, and is full of talented people like Stiller, Stephen Root, Gary Cole and Vince Vaughn, among others.
Its just not funny. There are so many potential situations that I dont knwo why it didnt score. I even thinK i could have wrote it better.
Rent BASEketball instead. Its much more bizarre, makes more jokes from its token announce team, makes something more out of everything involving sports. the locker rooms, the uniforms, the mascots. In Dodgeball other than a cheap S&M joke and how funny Ben Stiller looks in his Cobras uniform, these sort of things arent touched upon. As well, the Dodgeball games are so short, its difficult to tell any funny stories with its characters or create any sense of drama whatsoever that might help deliver a joke or make anything out of the b-characters on opposing teams. BASEketball does all of this, and has some side stories that work as well.
The only character in Dodgeball that got any laughs for me was the Pirate character, and even he was taken out to early. Dodgeball is neither straight enough nor ridiculous enough. It is painfully mediocre and with the talent involved should have been much much better. Much better.