The Benchwarmers (2006)
11 %
Reviews Counted: 62 Fresh: 7 Rotten:55 Average Rating: 3.1/10
Consensus:
A gross-out comedy that is more sophomoric than funny, The Benchwarmers goes down swinging.
Runtime: 85 mins
Theatrical Release: Apr 7, 2006 Wide
Box Office: $57,651,794
Synopsis: Adam Sandler's Happy Madison Productions--in cahoots with director Dennis Dugan (HAPPY GILMORE), stars Rob Schneider (DEUCE BIGELOW: MALE GIGOLO), Jon Heder (NAPOLEON DYNAMITE), and David Spade (TOMMY BOY)--seeks to level the eternal struggle between jocks and nerds in the raucous... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Rob Schneider, David Spade, Jon Heder, Jon Lovitz, Tim Meadows
Director: Dennis Dugan
Screenwriter: Allen Covert, Nick Swardson
Producer: Barry Bernardi, Jack Giarraputo
Composer: Waddy Wachtel
Screenwriter: Allen Covert, Nick Swardson
Producer: Barry Bernardi, Jack Giarraputo
Composer: Waddy Wachtel
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...ultimately nothing more than a silly, egregiously sentimental comedy...
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12/01/06
You won't know whether to roll your eyes or smile like a fool, but you will know you've been entertained.
10/14/06
...there was actually a small smattering of applause when the movie ended. Whether they were clapping for the film or just the fact that it was finally over will have to remain a mystery.
07/13/06
The Benchwarmers is better than it should have been. Only, that's not saying much.
06/06/06
Even Jon Lovitz with a Batmobile, a dwarf attack in a playroom, and David Spade’s best wig ever can’t save this mawkish misfire.
06/02/06
Unfunny, badly thought out and occasionally downright offensive, this is an extremely poor effort, even by the standards of other Rob Schneider movies.
06/01/06
Just when the baseball slapstick starts wearing thin, a final-reel gush of truly cynical sentiment on behalf of the physically challenged sends the ordeal-factor off the scale.
06/01/06
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05/20/06
This abysmally static comedy, the brainfart of 'the people who brought you Big Daddy' is a mess on every level %u2026 depressingly woeful.
05/13/06
Starring Schneider and Spade, whose careers have been circling the drain for years, and Heder, who won’t be far behind them if he doesn’t improve his career moves.
05/12/06
This comedy made me laugh exactly 3 times during its entire 80-minute run.
05/12/06
Only the reliably funny Jon Lovitz delivers his lines with any aplomb, providing just a few laughs in this otherwise horrid movie.
05/06/06
Believe it or not, The Benchwarmers is so lame that it can't even lay claim to being the best Adam Sandler-produced movie not screened for critics in 2006
04/29/06
An Adam Sandler movie without Adam Sandler, THE BENCHWARNERS offers the worst of all worlds.
04/23/06
There's a reason this comedy was not screened for critics. It strikes out, except at Pizza hut which must be thrilled with its product placements.
04/18/06
100% silly stupid. I laughed so hard, I cried. If you don't like fart jokes, don't go see it. But, as films in this genre go, it's packed high with funny and warmly w/heart.
04/17/06
If The Benchwarmers were a real ball game, the mercy rule would end the punishment in the first 15 minutes.
04/17/06
The Benchwarmers is funnier than it probably had any right to be, but the tedious repetition of the tournament games strands the film on second rather than bringing it in to score.
04/15/06
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