In DODGEBALL: A TRUE UNDERDOG STORY, Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn team up once again (following STARSKY & HUTCH) for another comic romp. While hilariously satirizing modern-day gym culture, the film also celebrates a sport that has previously been relegated to the elementary school playground. Peter La Fleur (Vaughn) owns the decrepit Average Joe's gym, which has been losing its clients ever since the glitzy Globo Gym opened up across the street. White Goodman (Stiller), Globo Gym's main spokesman, is a preposterously vain egomaniac on the cusp of taking over La Fleur's failing business. La Fleur learns from a beautiful attorney (Christine Taylor) that if he doesn't come up with $50,000 in 30 days, his career running a gym will be over. Potential salvation arrives in the form of a Las Vegas dodgeball tournament, but conquering a sport one hasn't played in several decades isn't such an easy feat. Fortunately for Peter, he finds a coach for his team: the hardheaded, ex-superstar Patches O'Houlihan (Rip Torn). As Peter and his ragtag team make their way to the championship in Las Vegas, they must contend with White, who has assembled a team of his very own. Rawson Marshall Thurber's debut feature is a highly assured work, which features hilarious cameos from Chuck Norris, Lance Armstrong, David Hasselhoff, and William Shatner.
Blu-ray Disc Features:
Region 1
Keep Case - Checkpoint, Sensormatic
Widescreen - 2.35
Audio:
DTS HD Master Audio 5.1 - English
Dolby Surround 5.1 - French, Spanish
Subtitles - English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Additional Footage - 1. Bloopers/Gag Reel
2. Extended Scenes
Alternate Scenes - Ending
Audio Commentary - Writer/Director Rawson Marshall Thurber and actors Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn
Deleted Scenes
Featurettes
Distributor Notes: You'll dodge, duck, dip, dive. . . and laugh out loud watching Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller settle their differences in a winner-take-all dodgeball competition. Under the painful tutelage of legendary ADAA champ, Patches O'Houlihan (Rip Torn), Peter LaFleur (Vaughn) and his Average Joes take on the Purple Cobras, led by egomaniacal fitness guru, White Goodman (Stiller). It's an over-the-top underdog tale filled with hilarious sight gags and balls-out fun!
Source: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Stars
Vince Vaughn: Actor, SWINGERS
Ben Stiller: American Director/Actor, MEET THE PARENTS (2000)
Christine Taylor: American Actress/Showdown
Rip Torn: American Actor/Director
Jason Bateman: American TV Actor
Gary Cole: American TV/Film Actor
Missi Pyle: Actress, JOSIE & THE PUSSYCATS (2001)
Stephen Root: Actor/"Monkey Shines"
Justin Long: Actor, JEEPERS CREEPERS (2001)
Chris Williams:
Alan Tudyk: American Actor\"WONDER BOYS"
Hank Azaria: Actor/"Quiz Show"
Joel Moore: Actor, DODGEBALL (2004)
Director
Rawson Marshall Thurber: Screenwriter, DODGEBALL (2004)
Producer
Ben Stiller: American Director/Actor, MEET THE PARENTS (2000)
Stuart Cornfeld: Producer
Screenwriter
Rawson Marshall Thurber: Screenwriter, DODGEBALL (2004)
Composer
Theodore Shapiro: Composer, YOU, ME AND DUPREE (2006)
Cameo
Chuck Norris: American Actor/Martial Artist
Cameo
David Hasselhoff: Television actor
Cameo
Lance Armstrong: American ex-pro cyclist, 7-time winner of the Tour de France
Cameo
William Shatner: Canadian Author/Actor, STAR TREK
Director of Photography
Jerzy Zielinski: Polish Director Of Photography/In USA
Review 1:
"Nobody eviscerates the scary depths of male narcissism with such ferocity, and it is a huge relief to find Mr. Stiller flexing his oiled, low-comedy triceps with such vengeful glee....Consistently funny..."
Source: New York Times
p.E12 06/18/2004
Review 2:
"[A] slaphappy send-up of the whole sniffly underdog sports-movie genre, written and directed with a changeup pitch of whizzy aggression and bouncy merriness..."
Source: Entertainment Weekly
p.65 07/09/2004
Review 3:
"Superb performances from the deadpan Vaughn and the fearless Stiller in one of the funniest films of the year."
Source: Uncut
p.132 09/01/2004
Review 4:
"Vaughn recalls the seemingly effortless shtick Bill Murray trades on, and the unruffled sense of amiability he maintains, even during the daftest bits of knockabout, is the movie's chief pleasure."
Source: Sight and Sound
p.52-4 10/01/2004
Review 5:
"[I]t's a worthy addition to the genre....Thurber and company deliver the goods..."
Source: Premiere
p.164 12/01/2004
Review 6:
"[With] Rip Torn getting enormous laughs with his training methods as their coach..."
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
p.11 12/03/2004