Little Tony DeFranco
06-20-2004, 05:06 AM
Clocking in....Ben Stiller movie alert..."Dodgeball: An Underdog's Story" is packaged up as a fluffy light old fashioned spitball comedy for the summer. Small production values to good use, this is a standard "Stripes", "Nerds", "Meatballs" funnybone flick. Rawson Marshall Thurber (TV commercial guy) wrote and directed a fun movie that is pretty energetic and full of comic talent. Peter LaFleur (Vince Vaughn in a laid back Bill Murray role) owns a gym called Regular Joes, where the patrons (all 4 of them) don't pay and the staff is happy but poor. Across the street is "Globo Gym" run by an asswipe fitness freak name White Goodman (Ben Stiller doing a Tony Little-like tool) who wants to tear down RegJoes to put in a parking garage. A tax lean for 50 grand is put on Peter and he has a month to raise the money, a quick money fix would be to enter a dodgeball tournament in Vegas, Globo is out to stop Peter buy entering with a troop of ringers.
You can guess who wins but the fun is getting there, with a good cast of losers getting hit in the face and nuts with a rubber ball made me giddy like a tard with a puppy. Stephen Root (Office Space's Milton) has the loser geek down to a science, Justin Long (Jeepers Creepers) is the virgin hero, and the black guy Chris Williams ("Krazy Eyes Killa" from Larry David's show). Ben Stern's wife Christine Taylor is on hand as a tax attorney that helps Pete (she has a softball rocketball pitch). Stiller is funny when he is jerking off into a piece of pizza and pumping up his inflatable jockstrap, and also a few cameos from has been stars. But it's a warmed over version of David Zuker's "Baseketball" with a PG13 teen safe attitude. Better than average laughs and who can resist watching Rip Torn throw wrenches at a punk kids head anyway. "Happy Gilmore" has a brother named "Dodgeball".
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Heartbeat is a Love Beat
You can guess who wins but the fun is getting there, with a good cast of losers getting hit in the face and nuts with a rubber ball made me giddy like a tard with a puppy. Stephen Root (Office Space's Milton) has the loser geek down to a science, Justin Long (Jeepers Creepers) is the virgin hero, and the black guy Chris Williams ("Krazy Eyes Killa" from Larry David's show). Ben Stern's wife Christine Taylor is on hand as a tax attorney that helps Pete (she has a softball rocketball pitch). Stiller is funny when he is jerking off into a piece of pizza and pumping up his inflatable jockstrap, and also a few cameos from has been stars. But it's a warmed over version of David Zuker's "Baseketball" with a PG13 teen safe attitude. Better than average laughs and who can resist watching Rip Torn throw wrenches at a punk kids head anyway. "Happy Gilmore" has a brother named "Dodgeball".
http://www.browntownjohnny.com/modules.php?name=MReviews&op=show&rid=159
Heartbeat is a Love Beat