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moviegamerman12

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This movie is ok, but it is not the best out there by any means for comedy. If you want something that everyone will laugh at, then this isnt right. Only pre-teens will like this pretty much. thatas all Im saying about this one.

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Posted jul 8, 2009 5:01 am pt

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this movie is seriously hilarious, i died watchin it. Nick swardson is funny as hell like always and i also think its jon heders best role.

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Posted mar 18, 2008 6:54 am pt

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This movie is HILARIOUS! Definitely a must see comedy!

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Posted feb 20, 2008 1:11 pm pt

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This is a really funny movie! It has some really stupid jokes but they are funny and it is entertaining when people get hurt. It also helps when you have the comediec performances of David Spade, Rob Schneider, Jon Lovitz, and Jon heder.

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Posted oct 15, 2007 7:54 am pt

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An average comedy, this movie may be for the actors "just a job" cuz it doesnt have a compliacted plot and never has a great ending, some jokes are good enough, watch it when it gets aired on tv or borrow it.

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Posted jun 11, 2007 8:06 am pt

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I thought this was a good movie. It was funny at some times, not that funny! The story was funny. The Nerds vs The Bullies. Its about a trio who play Baseball with the bully like baseball team. This was funny, and it was a good movie to see!

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Posted jun 9, 2007 12:08 am pt

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I enjoyed this movie. It had a great storyline behind it and of course it was hilarious at the same time, which wasn't surprising since Rob Schneider was in it.

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Posted apr 23, 2007 2:46 am pt

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Really a funny movie starring Rob Schneider, David Spade and Jon Heder. Those who rate this movie low are just not fans of silly comedies. But, for those who are fans, this movie is just for them. Yes, it is a dumb movie, but it is hilarious.

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Posted feb 18, 2007 5:03 am pt

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This is just a bad movie, no getting away from it whatsoever. How is it an accomplishment that three grown men, can beat little leaguers in a game?...I would hope they could, because if they couldn't they would need their man card revoked. The...
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This is just a bad movie, no getting away from it whatsoever. How is it an accomplishment that three grown men, can beat little leaguers in a game?...I would hope they could, because if they couldn't they would need their man card revoked. The lesson that bullying is bad, not a hard one to grasp, as everybody knows that. It doesn't deserve a full length (If you can call an hour and twenty minutes, full length) motion picture to tell us that. Rob Schneider gives the film only good performance, and that isn't a good thing. Jon Heder is wasted in his role coming off of Napoleon Dynamite, which is far better than this movie, it's like night and day. Oh, David Spade is forgettable in the movie, as he is in everything else. 1/10. Awful movie.

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Posted feb 16, 2007 8:29 am pt

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Great movie, great lessons, it was... I dont know... what do I want to say... GREAT! Lol. Rob Schneider (Sorry if thats spelt wrong its a hard name) was great. and so was that naploen dynamite guy, oh and David Spade and the brother of his in the...
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Great movie, great lessons, it was... I dont know... what do I want to say... GREAT! Lol. Rob Schneider (Sorry if thats spelt wrong its a hard name) was great. and so was that naploen dynamite guy, oh and David Spade and the brother of his in the movie, he was just hilarious, when those girl scouts came, and he was swinging his sword at them, because he was scared of the light, I laughed till I cried at this movie It was great, Who cares about critics the way I look at what critics review is if its low I go see it cause oddly enought those are the best ones in the publics eyes!

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Posted feb 13, 2007 3:57 am pt

• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  67
  This morphing of "The Bad News Bears" and a "Three Stooges" episode parades its dumbness with such zip that it almost passes for clever.

  by Owen Gleiberman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Boston Globe
  
  50
  Not terrible, not terrible at all. Yes, the plot is terrible, some of the jokes are terrible, and Rob Schneider's bizarre from-the-neck-up oxblood tan is terrible, but the movie as a whole is a more-than-acceptable addition to the genre of shameless and hastily made American comedy.

  by James Parker | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Onion (A.V. Club)
  
  42
  For the first two acts, veteran lowbrow director Dennis Dugan at least keeps The Benchwarmers' pace brisk and the wall-to-wall soundtrack upbeat and infectious. Then the big third-act twist arrives and the film drags to a finish, leaving a slug-like trail of squishy sentimentality.

  by Nathan Rabin | Read Full Review »
• [+] LA Weekly
  
  40
  It's hard to buy the movie as an underdog success story, since even the actors barely seem to exert themselves.

  by Ben Kenigsberg | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  40
  From the beginning to its very end, The Benchwarmers seems to be struggling to justify its own existence.

  by Gene Seymour | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  40
  Under Dennis Dugan's rote direction, Schneider winds up playing straight man to Spade, who once again relies on his snarky coward shtick, and Heder, who comes across like someone doing a bad imitation of ... well, Heder himself in "Napoleon Dynamite."

  by Joe Leydon | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  38
  This formulaic mess of sports-movie cliches and self-esteem claptrap contains a couple of funny bits, but you have to slog through a lot of done-to-death bodily function jokes to get to them.

  by Maitland McDonagh | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  
  38
  An underdog's breakfast of a movie, with some quite funny characters and set pieces mixed with some excruciating "moral lessons," but at least it moves along at a brisk pace.

  by Jennie Punter | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  30
  The Benchwarmers is the sort of trash that Hollywood does really well. It is also, to quote Mr. Schneider, "a master's thesis on the form of a quintessential Adam Sandler comedy."

  by Manohla Dargis | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Hollywood Reporter
  
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  You have to credit the filmmakers for at least acknowledging their level of dreck during the final credits, when Lovitz rhetorically asks, "This was a complete waste of time, wasn't it?"

  by Frank Scheck | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
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  It's a movie packed with so many idiot characters that Rob Schneider is cast as the cool guy -- and sort of pulls it off.

  by Peter Hartlaub | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
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  No laughs here, just the dull ache of seeing Heder slotted into a standard piece of Hollywood twaddle.

  by J.R. Jones | Read Full Review »
• [+] Empire
  
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  An unfunny, unfocused sub-SNL baseball comedy that makes the likes of Joe Dirt and Deuce Bigalow seem vintage.

  by Damon Wise | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Daily News
  
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  The humor is infantile at best (projectile vomiting and bathroom jokes) and meanspirited at worst (midgets and gays, look out).

  by Elizabeth Weitzman | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Post
  
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  Sandler's latest ode to projectile vomiting, passing gas, gay jokes and physical insults to the groin is basically a feeble cross between "The Revenge of the Nerds" and "The Bad News Bears."

  by Lou Lumenick | Read Full Review »