Dodgeball - A True Underdog Story (2004)

All Critics (161) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (122) | Rotten (49) | DVD (38)

This masterpiece of modern cinema depends upon a single truism: A guy getting hit in the nuts a hundred times in a row is funny a hundred times.

August 14, 2007 | Comments (3)

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

Top Critic

Direct hit!

June 30, 2004 Full Review

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Entertainment Weekly

Top Critic

The most satisfying comedy of the past year -- at least among the ones starring Stiller.

June 22, 2004 Full Review

Ed Park

Village Voice

Top Critic

... a hilariously worthy successor to the great goofball comedies of the late Seventies and early Eighties, movies like Caddyshack and Meatballs.

June 21, 2004 Full Review

Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

Top Critic

Just watching grown-ups get bombarded by rubber balls, you know? Makes me feel 12 again.

June 21, 2004 Full Review

David Edelstein

Slate

Top Critic

The movie doesn't just pussyfoot around conventionality -- it hits it square in the stomach and then leaps around shamelessly in a smug victory dance.

June 19, 2004 Full Review

Stephanie Zacharek

Salon.com

Top Critic

Think Bad News Bears crossed with Happy Gilmore.

May 25, 2010 Full Review

Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

In the end it just felt like we were being told one long joke but were never given the punchline.

April 29, 2009 Full Review

Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

The jokes fly as wildly as the titular sports gear, landing solidly more often than you'd expect thanks to a fast-paced script and a cast of good-natured misfits led by Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller.

October 18, 2008 Full Review

Joe Lozito

Big Picture Big Sound

Stiller is in fine form and just watching his exaggerated, paranoid egocentric White is amusing in itself.

October 18, 2008 Full Review

Urban Cinefile Critics

Urban Cinefile

Trash comedies such as this are usually more painful than funny, but writer-director Rawson Marshall Thurber pulls enough hilarious gags and cameos out of his gym bag to qualify his first feature as the summerâ(TM)s first guilty pleasure.

August 7, 2008 Full Review

Mark Halverson

Sacramento News & Review

Stiller gives one of his broadest and best performances to date, and the jokes ping around the screen as fast as the balls on the court.

August 5, 2008 Full Review

James Mottram

Film4

The film wants only to pit its common-man heroes against a bunch of colorful, laughable adversaries, and achieves this goal admirably.

July 30, 2007 Full Review

Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

White Goodman is one of Stiller's craziest creations, a hilariously dim-witted and mean-spirited jock that doesn't realize how pathetic he really is.

September 22, 2006

Russ Breimeier

Christianity Today

The biggest laughs come from a cameo, which is never a good sign.

July 22, 2006 Full Review | Comment (1)

Michael W. Phillips, Jr.

Goatdog's Movies

Can somebody please stop Ben Stiller?

May 26, 2006 Full Review | Comments (5)

Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard at seeing a young man get beaned in the head with a wrench.

December 6, 2005 Full Review

Peter Lowry

Film Threat

It never remotely feels set in the real world, and yet neither does it achieve a level of heightened or amusing alternate reality that sustains its out-there concept.

July 12, 2005 Full Review

Brent Simon

Now Playing Magazine

The humor in Dodgeball may be a bit dodgy, especially in its Unrated form, but at least it's there. (Unrated Edition)

July 9, 2005 Full Review

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

Buy the unrated version for extra profanity, a pretty funny "joke" commentary, some bland cheerleader clips, and a handful of new deleted scenes.

July 3, 2005 Full Review

Scott Weinberg

DVD Clinic

• 1. Kate Veach: Don't worry Justin that guy is a jerk.
  2. Dwight: Yeah, he'll probably fall off the roller coaster and break every bone in his body.
  3. Kate Veach: Nice, Dwight
  4. Dwight: I'm just saying my cousin, boop! Dead.
  – Submitted by Mike P (40 days ago)
• 1. Owen: Maybe we could pay it off in Canadian Dollars and save ourselves some money!
  – Submitted by Mike P (40 days ago)
• 1. White Goodman: I think we should mate.
  2. Kate Veach: What?
  3. White Goodman: Go on a date. You know, a social date.
  4. Kate Veach: I think I just threw up in my mouth.
  – Submitted by Samantha A (3 months ago)
• 1. Peter LaFleur: Hey White. You look awful fat in those pants.
  – Submitted by Samantha A (3 months ago)
• 1. White Goodman: Oh, I don't think I'm a lot dumber than you think that I thought that I thought I was once.
  – Submitted by Lane S (9 months ago)
• 1. White Goodman: Fucking Chuck Norris.
  – Submitted by Palmer R (10 months ago)

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