Dodgeball (2004)

	Also Known As: Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
	Year of first release: 2004
	Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber
	Actors: Ben Stiller (Meet the parents, Zoolander), Christine Taylor (Zoolander), Vince Vaughn (The Lost World: Jurassik Park), Rip Torn (Men in Black), Justin Long (Jeepers Creepers, Drag me to Hell, Live Free or Die Hard)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Comedy
	Conditions of visioning: 16.10.2012, DVD, 36" TV
Synopsis: To save his gym "Average Joe's" from being bought by the antipathic owner (Stiller) of the neighbourg and concurrent "Globo Gym", Peter La Fleur (Vaughn) will have to gather a team of improbable Dodgeball players and win the Las Vegas Open and its price of 50 000 dollars.
Review: I am not always found of Ben Stiller movies (like the Meet the Parents series, There's Something About Mary), but I find a few of them funny (Mystery Men), if not hilarious (Zoolander and this Dodgeball). Of course you have to like this kind of humour and I recommend watching it with friends. It is not the first time I see it but this time it was with many people, and at some point we were laughing so much that we had to pause the movie not to miss the following jokes. I found Ben Stiller as ridiculously funny as in Zoolander, even if I still prefer that one to Dodgeball. The story manages to turn this children's game into an almost deadly competition to watch on cable TV. Note that this was already done in an episode of South Park. The things I like most about this movie are the multiple references to pop culture (like the appearances of David Hasselhof and Chuck Norris) and most of all the screenplay and dialogs that are full of ideas from one end to the other, but also some romance, friendship, and as the title says, a true underdog story.
Rating: 8 /10