The three losers play a series of Little League teams, snatching victory from the jaws of slapstick humiliation.
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The Benchwarmers (2006)
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Reviews Counted:10
Fresh:2
Rotten:8
Average Rating:3.3/10
Consensus: A gross-out comedy that is more sophomoric than funny, The Benchwarmers goes down swinging.
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... [More]
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Reviews for The Benchwarmers
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Top CriticSchneider 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.
04/10/06
Top CriticIt's a movie packed with so many idiot characters that Rob Schneider is cast as the cool guy -- and sort of pulls it off.
04/10/06
Top CriticFilled 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.
04/10/06
Top CriticSandler'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.
04/10/06
Top CriticIf Sandler had avoided the lowest-common-denominator humor, recast the adult ballplayers as kids, and found a decent director, he might have had a worthwhile movie. Oh, wait -- it's already been made. And it's called Bad News Bears.
04/10/06
Top CriticThey hide these things for a reason, folks.
04/10/06
Top CriticIt gives me a perverse pleasure to announce that The Benchwarmers is not terrible, not terrible at all.
04/10/06
Top CriticLet the vomit-and-gas jokes begin!
04/08/06
Top CriticIt's so bad, it should be viewed only through a pinhole in a shoebox, much like an eclipse.
04/07/06
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