Episode 82 – We’re Excited About A Powerful Game of Dodgeball
Today we are talking about the 2004 film Dodgeball: An Underdog Story about a group of misfits who enter a Las Vegas Dodgeball tournament in order to save their cherished local gym from a corporate health fitness chain. Directing the film is Rawson Marshall Thurber who also directed Red Notice and Skyscraper and stars Ben Stiller, Christine Taylor, Vince Vaughn, Rip Torn, Justin Long, Stephen Root, Alan Tudyk, Missi Pyle, Gary Cole, Jason Bateman, Hank Azaria, Chuck Noris & William Shatner with a surprise cameo of David Hassellhoff.
Grab Life by the Balls
Source: IMDB.com
Patches O’Houlihan: If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.
Justin: What?
[Patches throws a wrench and hits Justin in the face]
Source: IMDB.com
Some of our favorite parts of Dodgeball are:
- This is one of Helen Mirren’s favorite films
- How we would make this today
- We love the training video for exposition
- Team cheer is great
- Sound design is fantastic
- Poor Justin Long’s eyebrow
Links mentioned in the Dodgeball episode:
Rating System Documentary – This Film Is Not Rated Yet (2006)
Streaming Service App/Website – JustWatch.com
Special thanks to our editor Geoff Vrijmoet for this episode and Melissa Villagrana for helping out with our social media posts. Welcome back, Melissa to work creating our social media. We are so grateful that you are healing up and helping us share our podcast with everyone. Thank you Melissa, we love you so much.
Next week’s film will be Jerry Maguire (1996) available on HBOMax
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