Victory. Honor. Pride. All these mean nothing if you don't have balls.

Rating: Null/10 (12 September 2011)

"Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story" finds a group of lazy, likable, poor, dysfunctional bums, who don't care about money, fitness or conformity, living opposite a super-gym filled with wealthy, hard-working, beautiful, Ubermensch. Our heroes beat the Ubermensch at a dodge-ball tournament, make millions of dollars and buy out the super gym. Message: it's okay to be who you are, because deep down you know you're better than all those "conformists" who do what you don't. You can do what they do and you can do it better. You are, and want, the best of both worlds.
To date, "Dodgeball" is the best film released by Ben Stiller's Red Hour Production company. Vince Vaughn plays our likable hero, Ben Stiller goes delightfully over-the-top as White Goodman (a health obsessed fitness instructor), and Christine Taylor plays the obligatory love interest. A bevy of goofy character-actors make up the rest of the film's oddball cast. Like most of Stiller's starring vehicles, "Dodgeball" is designed to covertly show off the time Stiller spends in the gym.
Most of the film's best jokes come from Stiller. His obsession with male beauty and virility mirrors the film's own obsession with balls. Interestingly, the film's love interest (Christine Taylor) is revealed to be bisexual, with no need for either Vaugn or Stiller. This revelation is perhaps a remnant of a scrapped, planned ending; the film originally ended with our heroes being beaten and remaining losers.
7.9/10 – Worth one viewing.