Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (5/10)
Like most everyone else, I liked Dodgeball - liked it, but didn’t love it. I didn’t roll around on the floor laughing or anything, but I found it humorous and entertaining. To summarize, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story is about the (almost too) easy-going owner of a local gym (Vince Vaughn) winning back his gym by competing against a more well-to-do gym owner (Ben Stiller) in a Las Vegas dodgeball tournament.
The cast of the underdog team from the local gym supported the movie’s laughs pretty well. Vaughn didn’t get many jokes, since he played the love interest of Christine Taylor’s character. Stiller was funny, but only because of the incredible butt his character made of himself. I was generally disgusted by Stiller’s character, White Goodman, and I thought for a moment that he was doing a bad job acting, but then it clicked - he was exagerrating his character to make me not like him. Well, it worked - and that’s what makes this an underdog story. You get to hate White so much that you can’t wait for him to get beat at the end.
Add comment March 28th, 2005
If you are a fan of martial arts and oriental storytelling, then please rent Hero as soon as possible and you won’t be sorry. I would also highly recommend this to anyone that liked Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon or anyone that is a cinematography buff. The story of Hero, without giving too much away, is the narrative account by a man that killed 3 legendary assassins that were out to kill the first emperor of China.
I’m going to make this quick. I like Woody Allen movies, and Sweet and Lowdown was no exception. The movie follows the short career of a 1930’s conceited jazz guitarist named Emmett Ray (Sean Penn). Along the way, he falls in love and marries a mute girl named Hattie (Samantha Morton).