Sunday, September 19, 2004

Dodge: True Spoilers Ahead

I went to see, 'Dodgeball: True Underdog Story' together with Zero(Yan Wei) and Yao Guang at Junction 8 yesterday. This movie is a riot in terms of hilarity, slapstick violence, politically incorrect statements and sexual innuendoes. Ben Stiller's character, White Goodman, is an egomaniacal, self-centered narcissist, bent on taking over Average Joe's Gym owned by Pete La Fleur(Vince Vaughn) due to some personal grudges.
So, the gang of average Joe's(a student who was onced crushed by elephant girl, a middle aged man with a mail ordered Chinese wife, two ex-airport staff, a pretend pirate and lastly 'I have no goals' Pete) have to raise up to $50 000 dollars to save their beloved gym. Some scenes were just so side splittingly funny. For instance the training segment when their psychotic coach threw monkey wrenches at them.
I love the witty dialogue and comedic banter of Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn. White Goodman is a nut job who keeps contradicting himself, 'Nobody makes me bleed my own blood!". There's lots of girls in skimpy bikinis washing cars, dancing cheerleaders, SM/Bondage outfits(Pete wore a collar with the word Daddy haha), celebrity cameos (David Hasselholf, Chuck Norris, Lance Armstrong, William Shatner...)and below the belt hits. In other words, a comedy that throws everything at you, including, literally balls of all sizes -Remember to dodge, duck, dive, dip and...dodge.



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