Product: Dodgeball/Borat Bonus Preview Disc (2004)
Rating: 4.0
Great Goofy Fun!
Dodgeball is a classic, B-comedy, buddy love, misfits movie with a big heart and that heart - mostly - in the right place.Stiller is hilarious here, but needs to start diversifying and moving away from the one dimensional dumb guy role he's been taking on of late - we've seen this character already and barely altered from Zoolander and Starsky.That said, there is a lot of fun in Dodgeball.Be sure to watch the "alternate" ending - with the director's comments. In it we discover twenty something director Rawson Marshall Thurber's vision for the movie which is pretty hard to believe. But he believed in his artistic vision so strongly that he quit the film, walked off the set and had to be brought coaxed back a week (or weeks) later by Stiller and Vaughan to complete the movie. The proposed (and originally filmed) ending is a ridiculous statement and would have killed the movie (test audiences absolutely hated the proposed ending).Watch it and . . . have a ball!