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| Unless nice-guy Peter LaFleur (Vince Vaughn) can come up with $50,000 fast, his Average Joe's Gym faces a takeover by slimy Globo Gym CEO White Goodman (Ben Stiller). | |
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The amount seems beyond the under-financed LeFleur's reach,
until gym rat Gordon (Stephen Root) suggests they enter a national dodgeball
tournament that will pit LaFleur's uncoordinated weaklings against Goodman's
steroid-pumped elite. This silly slapstick comedy might be the happiest surprise of the summer, as a cast of first-rate clowns clearly revel in the chance to deliver hilarious lines and demonstrate their superior physical-comedy skills. While there's a bit too much of Stiller's by-now-tedious angry-man act, Vaughn and the rest of the Average Joe's crew comprise a team of lovable losers truly worth rooting for. |
Ben Stiller. ©2004 20th Century Fox.
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Gay Interest: SomeOne character is bisexual and - as might be expected in a movie that takes place in the homoerotic world of sports, even if it is dodgeball - there are queer jokes aplenty. Stiller played a metrosexual in Zoolander and one-half of the vaguely homoerotic team of Starsky And Hutch. Vaughn was cross-dressing Norman Bates in the Psycho remake. Co-stars Hank Azaria and Jason Bateman have played gay characters. |
