Dodgeball - A True Underdog Story (Unrated Edition) | 
| Actors: Hank Azaria, Jason Bateman, Gary Cole, Jamal Duff, David Hasselhoff
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Rating:  303 reviews
Sales Rank: 6446
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 92 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: D2227221D
UPC: 024543172215
EAN: 0024543172215
ASIN: B0009HBPN0
Theatrical Release Date: June 18, 2004
Release Date: July 12, 2005
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How's this for impressive trivia: Dodgeball faced off against The Terminal in opening-weekend competition, and 29-year-old writer-director Rawson Marshall Thurber aced Steven Spielberg by a score of $30 to $18.7 in box-office millions. That's no mean feat for a newcomer, but Thurber's lowbrow script and rapid-fire direction--along with a sublime cast of screen comedians--proved to be just what moviegoers were ravenous for: a consistently hilarious, patently formulaic romp in which the underdog owner of Average Joe's Gym (Vince Vaughn) faces foreclosure unless he can raise $50,000 in 30 days. The solution: A dodgeball tournament offering $50K to the winners, in which Vaughn and his nerdy clientele team up against the preening, abhorrently narcissistic owner (Ben Stiller) of Globo Gym, who's threatening a buy-out. That's it for story; any 5-year-old could follow it with brainpower to spare. But Thurber, Vaughn, Stiller, and their well-cast costars (including Stiller's off-screen wife, Christine Taylor) keep the big laughs coming for 96 nonsensical minutes. With spot-on cameos by champion bicyclist Lance Armstrong, David Hasselhoff, Hank Azaria, Chuck Norris, and William Shatner, and a crudely amusing coda for those who watch past the credits, Dodgeball is no masterpiece, but you can bet Spielberg was unexpectedly humbled by its popular appeal. --Jeff Shannon
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 Patches O'Houlihan:If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball. Justin: What? June 8, 2009
Zoe Folkes (nyc)
i absolutely lLOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this movie i saw it when i was in junior high and it never got old to me, I love this movie. i know everyone likes dodge a wrench you can dodge a dodgeball ball but that's not my fav quote in the movie this is - Peter La Fleur: [after Patches hits Justin in the face with a wrench] Yeah, uh, Patches... are you sure that this is completely necessary?
Patches O'Houlihan: Necessary? Is it necessary for me to drink my own urine?
Peter La Fleur: Probably not.
Patches O'Houlihan: No, but I do it anyway because it's sterile and I like the taste.
Peter La Fleur: ...Okay.
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White Goodman: We should mate.
Kate Veatch: What?
White Goodman: Date! We should date some time. Socially. Go out and kick it.
[Kate retches, then forces it down]
White Goodman: Are you okay?
Kate Veatch: I'm fine. I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
White Goodman: In some cultures, they only eat vomit. I never been there, but I read about it... *in a book*.
i might be the only one that finds lines like these funny but if your into Justin long getting beat up by dodgeballs and wrenches then this is the movie for you.
 Dodge, Dip, Duck, Dive & Dodge June 2, 2009
S. Schwartz
I also found something interesting during my visit to the Special Features. The first thing that you notice is that the layout of the section is Average Joes and the little scene off to the side is Justin's ever-hilarious attempt to catch Patches's dodge balls during training. However, look next to the balloon that says "resume film". You see a balloon that is Globo Gym's logo. Click it, and you are taken to a scene where the fat White Goodman says that every time he snaps his fingers in the movie, hit enter. It happens three times in the movie. 1. When White tries to seduce Kate in his office, 2. At the Dirty Sanchez, after White pushed the waitress onto the Average Joes's table, and lastly, 3. After Kate throws White against her door and he says "nobody makes me bleed in my own blood. Nobody!" After you press enter for the third time, you will be taken to the scene where White does his "Patented 'Peek-a-Boo'" dodge ball throw, then to the t.v in the Globo Gym building (the one where he says "There's a good energy in the gym". You, for quite some time, watch the little show on the screen before you are taken back to the scene where White gets on the Blue motor scooter driven by Me'Shell. The show is funny. I found that you have to press enter right when he snaps his fingers. It's kind of hard to get it right, but it does work.
I absolutely LOVE this movie!! I even stepped out of my preferred genre of action/horror/sci-fi movies to add it to my collection. This hilarious movie is better seen unrated, but if you don't want children to see it, or you just don't want to see it, you aren't missing much. Which is wonderful, because you don't want to miss any of this hilarious comedy. Patches' training procedure is enough to make yourself roll on the floor laughing. How Ben Stiller, Rip Torn, and Vince Vaughn say all those hilarious things with a straight face is beyond me, but it's funny as all get out! Although...I must say that I really hope you aren't drinking any liquids or are tired from laughing already....I really do...because the ending credits are priceless!!! It's too funny! I'm still laughing!!!
Funny movie but unplayable in my Blu-Ray dvd player May 12, 2009
Kenneth L. Whittier
I won't repeat what many other people who liked this movie have said. That's why I'm giving it 5 stars. What I will mention is the fact that as soon as I put this Blu-ray movie in my Blu-Ray player, the menu loaded fine but selecting "play movie", "scene selection", or "special features" I was greeted with a blank tv scene. It wouldn't play at all no matter how long I waited or repeatedly tried to reload the disc.
 Weakest Link is the Star April 21, 2009
Marco Polo "Bruce" (Brooklyn, New York)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I saw this movie on an airplane, flying New York to Sao Paulo. A long flight, so I was ready for something lame to pass the time.
I got it: something lame.
Ben Stiller is the stupidest part of this movie: He doesn't deliver much comedy. He's a Johnny One-Note who made me tired after his first 30 seconds.
The rest of the movie was passable. I would have given it 3 stars for being a pleasant way to survive a 10-hour, cramped and crowded flight.
But Stiller was so boring, so pointless, so NON-funny, that I knocked the movie down to 1 star.
I sense all his movies are like that: overblown, stupid, not funny.
Which is too bad, because the supporting cast did OK.
 Nuttier Than A Yuletide Log March 25, 2009
D. Mikels (Skunk Holler)
DODGEBALL is kind of like passing wind in church; there's disbelief in having done it, and a derived guilty pleasure in getting away with it. So I still scold myself for having seen this movie (several times), yet walk away with a cheshire cat grin. Featuring low-brow Vince Vaughn as the hapless leader of Average Joe's Gym vs. ADD Ben Stiller as Vaughn's Globo-Gym nemesis, DODGEBALL is silly, morbid, redundant, and contrived--yet fun to watch.
Vaughn's okay, Stiller bounces off the walls, and Rip Torn and Jason Bateman steal the show: Torn as dodgeball "legend" (and wheelchair-bound) Patches O'Houlihan; Bateman as a clueless TV color commentator on ESPN 8 (gotta love that dig on our culture's infatuation with all things sports). It's a goofball comedy that has its fair share of ribald humor and its fair share of insanity--and all with a plot a toddler could understand--yet DODGEBALL still delivers fun. And, after all, that's what a guilty pleasure does.
--D. Mikels, Author, Walk-On
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