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Peter LaFleur (Vince Vaughn) runs a busted old gym with medicine balls and creaky equipment and an equally creaky clientel. Naturally, because of the failing financials, Average Joe's gym is undergoing foreclosure by a gorgeous accountant and future love interest, Kate (Christine Taylor). The gym is also facing some pretty tough times because of the direct competition via White Goodman's (Ben Stiller) perfectly coifed GloboGym, a modern steel building with plenty of homoeroticism to go around.

Perhaps the only complaint that I could lodge against Dodgeball is that it isn't quite edgy enough. When you have a guy as funny as Vince Vaughn and he isn't allowed to curse his heart out, well something is just a little off. But it's a perfectly short movie and gets in and out and done with the plot, before it drags on enough to make you sick of the little pinging sound of rubber ball on flesh.

Dodgeball is a movie with unparalleled weirdness and is particularly funny to anyone who watches strange sports on late night ESPN or goes to a gym. It does seem to capture the feel of a terrible sport without going too far over the top and making it seem completely unbelievable. Watching dodgeball, on the movie's ESPN 8 (the Ocho), I could very well imagine it being on TV in the very near future.

Of course the plot is predictable - all underdog movies have this fatal flaw. But to its credit, Dodgeball doesn't hand the championship over to the underdogs on a silver platter. Our heroes do bad things that no moral person would allow, people die, get mad, and leave the team. But none of this would matter if the film wasn't funny, and it certainly stands as one of the better, dorkier, comedies released this year.

Movie Grade: B

The Action on the Ocho

Video and Audio: 5 out of 5
The video on this disc is really, really strong. Not only is it shot in a beautiful scope format, all the colors and levels are bright, and the darker sections are pitch black. The audio is great as well, with the sports scenes taking on a full rich background and the dialogue perfectly centered.
Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35:1 / English (Dolby 5.1)

Extras: 3 out of 5
Some really nice and really funny extras, including a great commentary with the director, Stiller and Vaughn. It's actually informative and funny, which is a rare thing these days. The disc includes about 12 minutes of featurettes, mostly of the joking kind, ten minutes of deleted scenes (not great), and one of those mostly promotional "Inside Look" things. Just a note to the kids, the extras are unrated - nothing overtly naughty, but there's a few choice words scattered to and fro.

Overall: 4 out of 5
Dodgeball is a funny movie, and that should be all that matters. Anything with Vince Vaughn pretty much goes right on my shelf, and there's no reason that you shouldn't do the same. It's the kind of movie that will make you want to go to the store and pick up a bunch of red rubber balls.

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