Monday, July 16, 2012

Film: Dodgeball directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber

I re-watched this comedy from 2004, a formulaic but funny film about a run down gym that faces closure because of a mega corp gym next door having bought up their mortgage debt.

There only way out is to enter a Dogdeball competition to try and win the money to cover the loan. Amazingly they go onto win and save the day. Really this film still feels like a Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn comic vehicle.

There are some good cameos, Lance Armstrong to give the motivational speech to Vaughn when he is thinking of quitting before the final, Chuck Norris to give the casting vote when the team look like getting diqualified.

An unimportant piece of film history...

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