I saw This movie and I liked it. So When The PSP version comes out, I will be first to get it. I've heard that some psp movies are very dark even when the brightness setting is all the way up. I hope this movie looks just like the one on dvd. pick it up when it comes out!!!!!!

Really the only person I felt was good in this was Ben Stiller he should have won not the dorks that beat him. Great performance again by Ben Stiller and by the guy that played "Milton Waddams" was nice too. A true parody of it's self

...and you won't be disappointed.

I watched it on a rainy Monday, after a heavy weekend, and it was perfect for that purpose. It's one of those films that you just stare at, and laugh when prompted to. Admittedly, some of the humour was of a lower quality, and Ben Stiller is as annoying as ever (his camp 70's gym fanatic just isn't camp enough, and Vaughn's voice has an irritating whiny quality to it). However, when the humour worked, it worked well. Some of the banter between the bad and good guy was genuinely clever - the vague "you are but what am I?" insult tennis was great. The pirate guy was just silly, but I loved the bespectacled obese alternative-sports fanatic who has an inability to feel anger (played by the same person who does the voice of Hank's odd neighbour in King of the Hill). And, of course, the spanners part was wincingly wonderful.

Naturally it's predictable, but because it's done reasonably well throughout, the viewer isn't left disappointed or feeling patronised, like many films of this ilk tend to do. Decent enough entertainment to while away an afternoon to. There's better films out there, but there are many that are much, much worse.

"Dodgeball is a sport of violence, exclusion, and degradation". I can personally relate to this movie. Growing up in the midwest we were forced to play it often, as early as age six. Hopefully its involuntary school version is just a midwestern thing (Ohio, Michigan, Illinois) because it is truly a sport of "violence, exclusion, and degradation"; which I can now look back on and laugh about (at least a little).

I think Stiller got the concept from his Michigan friends who made it a great sequence in the "Freaks and Geeks" pilot episode.

But it would be hard to come up with another movie that is as uneven (hit and miss) in its humor.

Pretty much everything involving Patches works extremely well; and works for both the Hank Azaria and the Rip Torn versions of the character. In fact these are some of the greatest comedy and dialogue bits ever. "No, but I do it anyway because it's sterile and I like the taste".

They reach for some cheap lesbian laughs which culminates with the tired draw of girls kissing.

Vince Vaughn is likable and relaxed but it would be a stretch to call his stuff 'acting'.

Ben Stiller is the main source of the misses. His 70's fitness freak never really works and the more you see the less funny it gets. Only the scenes with his "real-life wife" Christine Taylor are worth watching. Stiller just doesn't have the talent for exaggerated humor and the writer gave all the good lines to the other characters.

The supporting cast that I have not yet mentioned are lame and unimaginative. Since it is a comedy I assume that "Steve the Pirate" is supposed to be funny but you can't tell that by how he looks or what he says. Julie Gonzalo plays her same cheerleader character from "A Cinderella Story"; since the films were produced at the same time she may have just walked back and forth between the sets without having to do a costume change.

The big mystery is why the creative talent behind "Dodgeball came up with a couple really great bits but nothing worthwhile for the rest of the movie. I was showing some of the best parts to a friend who loved the 1950-ish Promo and the part where Patches throws the wrenches as a training method. It was only then that I realized that he had seen everything worth seeing; some of the other bits are decent, some are horrible, and some are just boring, but nothing is even close to those two sequences.

I really did not expect much from this movie but after watching it, I liked it! Don't expect much though. It is one of those movies where you leave your brain at the door. I watched it on a rainy weekend day and it was good fun for 90 minutes. Definitely worth a couple of laughs! By the way, could someone please tell Ben Stiller that he is not funny!