Dodgeball Review

Overall Rating

Funny representation of a "health club" that is only a place to see and be seen.

Why is no one talking about all the T&A in this movie? Animal House's plot, several decades later.

Dodgeball - I only made it halfway through this movie. I didn't see anything particularly funny about it, except the representation of the health club as noted above. The plot is the age-old "They think they're better than us and they make us feel inferior, but we'll show them they can't push us nerds around!" There were enough naked women doing suggestive things in the first half to make me feel pretty embarrassed in mixed company. Where are the exposed men doing suggestive things to women? Does anyone think exploited people are the underdogs?

Tommy Boy was 10 times the movie this one is. If I want to see porn, I'll rent porn, and if I want to see a real comedy, I'll go see that, too. The only case in which I would recommend this movie is if it was on Mystery Science Theater.

This movie is a bad reflection on American culture.

Members' Comments onwhopper's Review

• spook on 18th Feb 2005

  I have to admit I'm very confused by your review. Dodgeball was certainly not the best or funniest film I've ever seen and the plot was very predictable, but it hardly amounted to cheap, tawdry porn! I didn't notice any explicit sexual content (even Marsha Brady or whatever her name is stayed clothed!) unless you count the thing about the uniforms for the tournament, where they accidentally got some fetish gear. Even, so, the only thing on display was Ben Stiller in way too much spandex. In fact, I'm surpised there wasn't more mention of sex and more jokes of that ilk in a film such as this. Are you sure you got the right film?

• whopper on 19th Feb 2005

  I saw the gym and the car wash. You don't see any (good looking) men in bikinis, and none with their genitalia pressing through wet cloth on a windshield like the women's breasts at the car wash. It was all very one-sided. I have to admit I cut out before I could see where the Thong Song was leading, but if it was anything other than the obvious, let me know. :)
  
  I think that a lot of people see so much female flesh that it tends to blend into the background, but it was there, I assure you. :) Try watching it from a woman's point of view. :) The amount of good looking male flesh displayed (not the guys who were displayed as a joke or as contrast, like the geeks at the carwash) in proportion to the women was very small. The disparity made me quite uncomfortable.
  
  It just seemed like the plot was non-existant and, the (funny) jokes were sparse, but bikini and spandex clad women were everywhere, so what was the point of that movie? But there must be more to it, lots of people watch these movies all the time.... If you can explain it to me, I'd be grateful.
  
  Thank you for your response. I'm glad to know someone read it, even if it is to disagree. :)

• spook on 21st Feb 2005

  I am a woman.... I didn't actually think it was particularly graphic in regards to the women, especially when you consider that Ben Stiller spent most of the movie in spandex and had an apparatus to inflate his groin area with air. I noticed far more scantily clad men....:).