The Benchwarmers (2006)
Average Rating: 3.1/10
Reviews Counted: 70
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 62
A gross-out comedy that is more sophomoric than funny, The Benchwarmers goes down swinging.
Average Rating: 3.1/10
Critic Reviews: 12
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 10
A gross-out comedy that is more sophomoric than funny, The Benchwarmers goes down swinging.
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For anyone who's ever been picked on, put down or pushed around, your heroes are here! Rob Schneider, David Spade, and Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite) star as three older guys who know what it's like to be bullied. After catching some nasty neighborhood kids picking on a friend's son, they strike back by forming a three-man baseball team to challenge the state's best youth teams. Now, cheered on by every nerd, geek, and misfit in town, these underdogs are about to have a field day in this
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Cast
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Rob Schneider
Gus -
David Spade
Ritchie -
Jon Heder
Clark -
Jon Lovitz
Mel -
Craig Kilborn
Jerry -
Molly Sims
Liz -
Tim Meadows
Wayne -
Nick Swardson
Howie -
Erinn Bartlett
Sarah the Salad Girl -
Amaury Nolasco
Carlos -
Max Prado
Nelson -
Reggie Jackson
Reggie Jackson -
James Earl Jones
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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.
Top CriticThe three losers play a series of Little League teams, snatching victory from the jaws of slapstick humiliation.
Schneider winds up playing straight man to Spade, who once again relies on his snarky coward shtick, and Heder, who comes across like someone doing a bad imitation of ... well, Heder himself in Napoleon Dynamite.
It's a movie packed with so many idiot characters that Rob Schneider is cast as the cool guy -- and sort of pulls it off.
Filled with sprays of vomit, fountains of spit and enough hot body air to launch a flotilla of passenger balloons, The Benchwarmers is the sort of trash that Hollywood does really well.
Sandler's latest ode to projectile vomiting, passing gas, gay jokes and physical insults to the groin is basically a feeble cross between The Revenge of the Nerds and The Bad News Bears.
Stupidity this epic can only be the deliberate work of cynical opportunists.
In the last line of the film, as the final credits thankfully disappear, Richie casually says "that was a waste of time wasn't it?" Yes. Definitely.
It doesn't take a genius to work out what's on offer: toilet humour, physical comedy, more toilet humour and an Americans-do-it-best schmaltzy climax.
...ultimately nothing more than a silly, egregiously sentimental comedy...
You won't know whether to roll your eyes or smile like a fool, but you will know you've been entertained.
Seems like a wasted opportunity to strike a memorable blow for nerds everywhere.
...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.
The Benchwarmers is better than it should have been. Only, that's not saying much.
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.
Unfunny, badly thought out and occasionally downright offensive, this is an extremely poor effort, even by the standards of other Rob Schneider movies.
Highbrow humour is not the film's strong point but there's no faulting the sincerity of this against-all-odds comedy.
The Benchwarmers strikes out. Again and again and again.
This abysmally static comedy, the brainfart of 'the people who brought you Big Daddy' is a mess on every level %u2026 depressingly woeful.
Audience Reviews for The Benchwarmers
Super Reviewer
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- Clark: Boooooooooo!
- Ritchie: YOU JUST LOST YOUR MEMBERSHIP AT VIDEOSPOT!
- Clark: DANG IT!
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- Gus: I made a mistake Nelson. I wish I could take it all back.
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- Ritchie: What is this? Children of the corn?
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- Clark: Makers of what? Poop?
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- Howie: THE SUN IS NOT A MONSTER!!!
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- Clark: Macaroni must have steroids!
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