Product: Dodgeball/Borat Bonus Preview Disc (2004)
Rating: 4.0
truly funny
Dodge Ball is a truly funny movie. The setting is Ben Stiller is the leader of a super swanky exercise center and Vince Vaughn is the leader of the exercise center for misfits. Vaughn is losing his center to the bank for non-payment and Ben stiller's charater has bought the mortgage. Vaughn leads his crew in a dodge ball tournament to win $50,000 to pay off the mortgage and keep his center for the average Joes. Stiller sets his own team up to prevent the Average Joes from winning due to his personal hatered for Vaughn.Ben Stiller is perfect as the over the top fitness guru White Goodman. He represents every fitness guru the average person hates. Too muscular with perfect hair and perfect physical specimens surrounding him. Think of all of those workout specialist selling various equipment and tapes on late night tv. He is too macho for his own good and he is tiny to boot, using intimidation to get what he wants.Vaughn is also perfect as LeFleur the leader of the average Joes. He leads a bunch of nerds trying, but not succeeding to work out. He represent everyone of us who starts to work out but never finishes. He buys the tape but nerver uses it more than once. He also fails to see why he is less than the experts and thinks its ok to be average.Rip Torn is the "famous" patches o'toole, a champion dodge ball player from the fifties trying to get the average joes ready to win.There is nothing new in this movie that has not been covered better before. But, don't let that stop you from buying this one. It is the combinations of the cliches that make this movie so hysterical. With allusions to the famous fitness gurus to the "karate kid", the movie actually works. I thought the idea of championship dodge ball was so over the top until I saw championship dodge ball on a famous cable sports channel. These people are into it and that made the movie even funnier. Don't miss this one! Highly reccommended.