I watched Dodgeball last night. It wasn't good. The only part I laughed at was the part where Rip Torn (AKA Patches O'Hoolahan) is smacking people with wrenches. Then I felt bad for laughing because A) The movie is crap and B) I was laughing at people getting a face full o' wrench. The cast of characters was clever, but sometimes a bit cliche. Out of all the characters, the man who thinks himself to be a pirate may be the most off-beat.

There were moments in the move that shine. The scrolling letters at the end were a real relief after the tourture my brain suffered from the experience. Other than that this movie is... rather dull. You can tell that the director is either really stretching a horrible script, or trying to rely on wacky concept characters to provide for content the script never had. Ben Stiller plays the antagonist, a fitness freak who plans to buy out Vince Vaughn's already ailing gym. Vaughn's character is about as interesting a protaganist as Vaughn's character in... the other movies he was in. Vince seems out of place when he isn't playing a Psycho.

But, worst of all was the actual ending, the one that happens before the credits. The alternate ending on the DVD is the orginial ending that was cut because the antaganist (Ben Stiller's character) actually wins the dodge ball contest.The commentary said that this orginal ending was the best artistic choice. I disagree. The artistic choice would have been making a better movie.