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Genres:
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Comedy /
Sport
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Director:
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Rawson Marshall Thurber
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Actors:
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Christine Taylor,
Chris Williams,
Al Kaplon,
Vince Vaughn,
Ben Stiller,
Rip Torn,
Justin Long,
Stephen Root,
Joel Moore,
Alan Tudyk,
Missi Pyle,
Jamal Duff,
Gary Cole,
Jason Bateman,
Hank Azaria
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Duration:
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89 min.
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Rating:
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(6.6/10)98
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Plot Summary:
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Peter La Fleur (Vince Vaughn) is an underachiever who owns a bring-down gym which has a clientele to be ashamed of. It comes as no in flagrante delicto when White Goodman (Ben Stiller) decides to beat it over the place and he sends in attorney Kate Veach (Christine Taylor) to finalise the deal. Unfortunately for White, Peter's charms win Kate over and she helps him try to beat the odds and set apart 'Unexceptional Joes'.
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Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
Some years back, New Yorker critic Terrence Rafferty condemned the flashy, enjoyably trashy action flick La Femme Nikita with a single memorable sentence: "The end of French cinema as we know it." I filed the judgment away with a laugh, chalking up Rafferty's condemnation to high-art snobbery. Earlier this week, I briefly retrieved that indictment after enduring the witless DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story. It's not the end of American cinema, but it may signal either the end of Ben Stiller's ambitions or the launch of a vendetta against his fans.
That's too bad. A talented comic and underappreciated director -- his 1996 The Cable Guy remains a subversive dark pleasure -- Stiller seems to have spent the last decade balancing his better instincts against his worst, go...
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