Product: Dodgeball/Borat Bonus Preview Disc (2004)
Rating: 2.0
Not very funny...
Revenge of the nerds?I'm shocked that so many found this movie to be funny. I'm sorry i wasted my money on it. I understand the role reversal idea where the tall hunky like vince vaughn ends up being the under dog everyman type guy and 5 foot nothing ben stiller is the greasy bad guy. Problem is it doesn't work. Stiller comes across as a comic book character and vaughn's understated humor is nearly comatose. The writing is horrible so of course the script is included with the dvd so you can read how horrible it is. It's bad!Ben stiller plays this sleazy ceo of a multimillion dolar health club who i guess is really trying to overcome his own feelings of inferiority though the writing does little to flesh that out. He does have the blow up crotch in his spandex to make it look like he has more than he does ha ha. Vaughn's character owns a run down nearly bankrupt gym right across the street called "average joe's". Average joe's is no threat to the bigger gym so of course the stiller character is obsessed with taking it over. That would be tragic because all the nerds at average joe's have nothing else. Like we should care? The message here is that owners of successful businesses are egomaniacal facists, nazis? While owners of failed businesses are laid back cool guys? Note that the name of the ben stiller character "white" goodman. Make up your own mind what that is supposed to represent.Anyway the mean facist "white" goodman is going after average joe's so now the vaughn character and his merry band of nerds needs to find a way to get $50,000 to keep average joe's and stop him. How do you raise 50K in america? Well win a nationwide dodge ball tourney of course. So they sign up and who will they play in the championship? A team led by the facist "white" goodman. What a shock. And you don't even need to guess who wins.In between all this you have numerous gags, about three dozen times someone will take a hit to the crotch and various cameo appearences by famous people. Some of the gags and lines are funny like when the stiller character asks the pretty christine taylor(his real life wife) if she would like to mate. She then gags and says "i just vomited in my mouth". Most are not funny.All in all there are some funny moments but you never buy into the whole plot line. You could care less about any of the average joe's characters and vince vaughn's character is vegetated. He is usually smiling wryly and little else. Ben stiller's character is so bizzare, so weird you can't take him seriously enough to hate him.Not even in the same league as something about mary. Please don't waste your money on it.