Movie Schitzo's Review of "The Benchwarmers"

Rating: 6/10 (30 July 2006)

Who could have thunk that Rob Schineider (Deace Bigalow: Male Giggalow), David Spade (Joe Dirt) and Jon Heder (Napolean Dynamite) would star in a movie together about losers who form a three man baseball team to wipe out the competition? I didn't and if you enjoy gross out comedies like the ones mentioned above than you will positively enjoy the fun romp. The plot is simple and tasteless: Three older guys: Gus (Schenieder), the more popular of the three who actually knows how to play the game of baseball, Ritchie (Spade), the dweeb video store employee who enjoys hitting on the women who walk into the store, and Clark (Heder), the slightly dumb but lovable mama's boy who lives at home with his mother and enjoys macaroni. So they hire childhood nerd turned rich guy (Jon Lovitz) to be their team manager and they start playing against all the little league teams across the state and they prove that Dweebs, Geeks, and Nerds are people too with hilarious results. Did you know that before he died Chris Farley would have been one of the three guys in the movie and after his death they stashed the idea away to wait for a more opportune moment, now, I'm not saying that Farley is bad, but this is a good movie all on its own. The cast look great together and look like they had a lot of fun making this movie together. This movie will definitely find its audience so go see it and enjoy it.
3 out of 4 stars