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The Benchwarmers
Three maniacs men try to reach success in their favorite baseball game. The three men lived all their lives under the bullies but decided to start training and work hard in order to have the chance to win the best favorite baseball teams. The baseball-loving millionaire helps them achieve their ambition and reach a competitive stage with the Little League baseball teams.
3 July 1989, Los Angeles, California, USA
2 February 1946, Macon, Georgia, USA
9 March 1963, Long Beach, California, USA
18 May 1946, Wyncote, Pennsylvania, USA
1 October 1965, Bronx, New York, USA
22 October 1950, El Segundo, California, USA
22 December 1912, Oak Park, Illinois, USA
July 13, 2006
...there was actually a small smattering of applause when the movie ended. Whether they were clapping for the film or just the fact that it was finally over will have to remain a mystery.
April 10, 2006
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.
April 12, 2006
The three losers play a series of Little League teams, snatching victory from the jaws of slapstick humiliation.
October 14, 2006
You won't know whether to roll your eyes or smile like a fool, but you will know you've been entertained.
October 29, 2008
It doesn't take a genius to work out what's on offer: toilet humour, physical comedy, more toilet humour and an Americans-do-it-best schmaltzy climax.
October 10, 2009
In the last line of the film, as the final credits thankfully disappear, Richie casually says "that was a waste of time wasn't it?" Yes. Definitely.
April 13, 2006
It's hard to buy the movie as an underdog success story, since even the actors barely seem to exert themselves.
December 01, 2006
...ultimately nothing more than a silly, egregiously sentimental comedy...
April 13, 2006
Like pretty much everything else bearing Happy Madison's name, The Benchwarmers kind of sucks.
April 10, 2006
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.
June 01, 2006
Just when the baseball slapstick starts wearing thin, a final-reel gush of truly cynical sentiment on behalf of the physically challenged sends the ordeal-factor off the scale.
November 07, 2012
Stupidity this epic can only be the deliberate work of cynical opportunists.