It gives me a perverse pleasure to announce that The Benchwarmers is not terrible, not terrible at all.
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04/10/06
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The Benchwarmers (2006)
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Reviews Counted:66
Fresh:8
Rotten:58
Average Rating:3.1/10
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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an unapologetically dumb comedy, and I won’t criticize the filmmakers for delivering this mindless but crowd-pleasing comedy.
04/10/06
A grossout comedy featuring three vomit scenes, two with chunks, and a grown man who eats his own boogers in public is the movie that Rob Schneider believes is his One Big Chance to be seen as a Serious Actor.
04/09/06
Pretty terrible--a movie fashioned for the arrested development set (not those addicted to the fondly-remembered TV series, but those suffering from the psychological malady).
04/09/06
The Benchwarmers is basically another dreadful and repetitive sophomoric session of misplaced potty humor that has all the devilish ingenuity of a corked baseball bat.
04/09/06
If there's a bad getting-hit-in-the-crotch gag, director Dennis Dugan hasn't seen it.
04/08/06
This film has no idea who it wants to reach ... you just kind of shake your head and hope the PG-13 rating will be strictly enforced.
04/08/06
By human standards, [it] is bad. ... By Rob Schneider standards (and how often are those words used together?), it's bad, but not in the same league as Deuce Bigalow.
04/08/06
It won't surprise anyone that Heder is not at his best here, but when you find yourself thinking that Spade and Schneider deserve better material, that's saying a lot.
04/08/06
Let the vomit-and-gas jokes begin!
04/08/06
Top Criticrevels in its freak tendencies
04/07/06
Well, outside of the jokes about nose-picking, animal feces, small genitalia, homophobia, urinating in the shower, flatulence, and co-starring the reigning king of unfunny, Jon Heder, Benchwarmers is actually a passably funny motion picture.
04/07/06
These guys should have stayed on the bench.
04/07/06
The Benchwarmers is full of potty humor and worse, but this "make work" program for The Friends of Adam Sandler is not a dreadful movie, it's just an inconsequential one
04/07/06
These geeks really aren't people, and the bad guys don't need moustaches to twirl when they accomplish as much with an old fashioned titty-twister.
04/07/06
It's so bad, it should be viewed only through a pinhole in a shoebox, much like an eclipse.
04/07/06
Top Critic[The film] contains a couple of funny bits, like Jackson teaching fast reflexes through doorbell-ringing pranks, but you have to slog through a lot of done-to-death bodily function jokes to get to them.
04/07/06
The Benchwarmers features a talking robot butler. If you're wondering what a talking robot butler has to do with Rob Schneider, David Spade, and Jon Heder playing baseball against children, the answer is: absolutely nothing.
04/07/06
Punishment.
04/07/06
Manages to never be boring even when it is a complete waste of talent, film stock and the audience's time and money.
04/07/06
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