Another loser from Revolution Studios

Rating: Null/10 (12 January 2010)

When I first heard about "The Benchwarmers", I'll admit part of me was attracted to the premise of the movie. As a child, I was very unathletic, and as a result all too well about not fitting in because of that and the wish to get respect from my peers. Maybe, I thought, they could pull this off.
However, the execution of the premise was a complete failure. The first problem I had was with the depiction of the protagonists. They are more than nerds - they are REPULSIVE nerds. They seem to all be intentionally acting in the most annoying ways they can be. As a result, I had no sympathy for them.
The second problem I had with the movie was the frequent attempts at mining humor from such things as urine, flatulence, spit, and vomit. Hey, I'm no prude - I watch R-rated and unrated movies all the time and enjoy them. But the way this material is written and directed, it is simply disgusting and with no humor at all.
This movie actually did decent business when it was released. Maybe there are more of us nerds out there than I thought. But I'm pretty sure they were turned off this movie as much as I was, and won't want to see it a second time.