Grab life by the ball.
Egomaniac White Goodman (Ben Stiller) is the owner of Globo Gym, a gleaming monolith of fitness, intent to take over Average Joe's, a run-down gym run by charismatic underachiever Peter LaFleur (Vince Vaughn). A foreclosing bank has commissioned attorney Kate Veatch (Christine Taylor) to finalise the takeover, but she is drawn to Peter and his team of social rejects and wants to help them. In a bid to keep gym ownership, Peter and the team from Average Joe's decide to enter a national Dodgeball competition, hoping to win the $50,000 prize. But White has also entered the competition with his team of burly muscle-rippling colleagues, and the two teams are destined to meet in the finals.
Special Agent Matti
Dodgeball: A true underdog story is, absolutely, an underdog story involving a sport. It has all the traditional (ie clichéd) elements: geeks vs jocks, protagonist and antagonist desire same woman, trials and tribulations, legendary player gives sage advice, antagonist cheats, protagonist has life-changing experience, etc. There are many funny gags.
M (Sexual references, low level coarse language)
92 minutes (1:32 hours)
Film: 9 September 2004
