Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story Review

You'd never have thought a Yank take on British bulldog would a great film make but with "Dodgeball," Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn have done it and gloriously so. Stiller dons a comedy 'tache and lycra unitard to play mullet-sporting fitness nut White Johnson, a man whose brain may not be his strongest muscle but whose ruthless health empire Globo Gym is without equal. So when Whyte's cutthroat corporation decides to buy out Average Joe's, a flea-pit of a sports club run by Vaughn's terminably broke, unambitious and decidedly flabby Peter la Fleur, the takeover looks like a foregone conclusion. But White hasn't reckoned for Average Joe's motley crew of regulars, who set out to win the $50,000 needed to save their beloved haunt by entering a big money dodgeball tournament in Las Vegas. And White, for one, isn't going to let them win it without a fight.

It's not just yet another brilliant comic performance from Hollywood's busiest man Ben Stiller or Vince Vaughn's understated cool that makes this a genuinely fun evening out. The rest of the impressive cast - including a particularly hilarious Rip Torn as a maniacal dodgeball coach - is without fault while the underdog story zips along nicely. But it's the sizzling script packing in more gags and ideas a minute than any other comedy this year that makes this movie a must-see. If you don't guffaw at least once in this movie, check your pulse.