Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story is a comedy from 20th Century Fox, written and directed by Rawson Thurber and available on DVD or VHS December 2004.
Spoiler warning: Plot or ending details follow.
The plot involves the underdog gym Average Joe's which tries to keep itself afloat by playing an important game of dodgeball against a glitzy, expensive gym Globo Gym. Vaughn leads the Average Joe's team to the classic underdog win at the last moment in a sudden death playoff. Despite being a "stupid" comedy that follows the often-used "weak triumphing over the powerful" story line the movie was relatively well-received by viewers and critics. The dialog contains quite a few obscure jokes that only viewers with a fair amount of background in history, literature, and pop culture will understand. Many famous people make appearances at various points in the movie including Lance Armstrong, Chuck Norris, and William Shatner.
Tobias McKinney - German Blitzkrieg Player (uncredited)
Brian W. Wallace - Lumberjacks player (uncredited)
Institutions in the movie
ESPN 8 ("The Ocho"): "If it's almost a sport, we've got it!" This network is a riff on ESPN's growing empire of sports TV networks, which in 2004 numbered 5, not counting secondary services such as "ESPN Deportes".
The American Dodgeball Association of America: The sanctioning body for the sport who has laid down the rules as follows:
6 players with one ball each; no gender specifications
Catching of the ball counts as a reversal (i.e. Another player is allowed to come back on the field)
No stepping beyond the red line which cuts the field horizontally
Sudden death: If all players from both teams are eliminated, one player from both teams will participate in this overtime from two triangles facing each other. The first player to hit his opponent wins; catching is irrelevant.
External links
Official movie web site (http://www.dodgeballmovie.com/)
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364725/) at the Internet Movie Database
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