Product: Dodgeball/Borat Bonus Preview Disc (2004)
Rating: 3.0
The Force of Nature that is.......DodgeBall
And the award for the least subtle movie of the year goes to. . .DodgeBall. I once read an interview with a former Hollywood screenwriter. He said he hated that way comedies were written because they always felt it necessary to say t the audience "Here comes the joke. Here is the joke. Ok, that was the joke." And I never saw that concept as clearly as I did while watching this film. It's no enough that the Christine Taylor character swoons over Vince Vaughn and seems revolted at the mere sight of Ben Stiller. No, no, no, she needs to spell it out to the audience that she just threw up...a little...in her mouth. Now I've had my fair share of ugly girls hit on me in my day and never once did my body reject the idea of them so thoroughly as to create vomit. And I doubt anyone else has had that experience either, so where exactly does the comedy come from in that scene? The film is filled with the usual teenage fare... gross out jokes, celebrity cameos, and nonsense. Oh yeah, and a nice dose of funny jokes. I've always thought the Stiller/Wilson/Vaughn comedies had far more integrity that those of Adam Sandler. [...] Still I can't recommend this film. They pander far too much and think too little of their target audience. Also, I felt as though this film existed in a bubble, and that it could have been made any time in the past 100 years and has nothing to say about the society we live in today. Nobody could accuse Team America of that problem. Of course had they used the original ending in this film I could have been convinced to think differently about it. 3 out of 5