The Benchwarmers
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The Benchwarmers
Anyone else seen this?
Jon Heder, David Spade and Rob Schneider play three dorks who were bullied at school. They form a baseball team to challenge the current crop of jocks within the neighbourhood and stop them bullying the dorky schoolkids. Jon Lovitz also stars as one of the fathers of the dorks.
I found it really good fun. Heder, Spade and Lovitz are on particularly good form, while, unusually, Schneider plays more of the straight guy. There are quite a few real belly laughs throughout, though the film does run out of steam a bit in the final act. The funniest thing for me was
Jon Heder, David Spade and Rob Schneider play three dorks who were bullied at school. They form a baseball team to challenge the current crop of jocks within the neighbourhood and stop them bullying the dorky schoolkids. Jon Lovitz also stars as one of the fathers of the dorks.
I found it really good fun. Heder, Spade and Lovitz are on particularly good form, while, unusually, Schneider plays more of the straight guy. There are quite a few real belly laughs throughout, though the film does run out of steam a bit in the final act. The funniest thing for me was
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I just watched this last week with the wife. It was just OK. It was a lot better than I thought it was going to be though. For some reason, the wife loved it.
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Originally Posted by Lateralus
Yes the movie was that bad, but I'm glad you enjoyed it.
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I really enjoyed this flick. I found it to be much funnier than I was expecting.
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Somehow this ended up in our Netflix queue on Blu-ray. I'm pleased to report that it's leaps and bounds better than what I expected. And I even expected it to be funny. There's not much that comes from Happy Madison that I don't end up really liking though.