Storyline
A trio of guys try and make up for missed opportunities in childhood by forming a three-player baseball team to compete against standard little league squads.
Directors
Cast
Tim Meadows, Nick Swardson, David Spade, Dennis Dugan, Lochlyn Munro, Terry Crews, Amaury Nolasco, Cleo King, Dan Patrick, Jackie Sandler, Doug Jones, Blake Clark, Matthew Willig, Bill Romanowski, Jonathan Loughran, Rob Schneider, Judith Drake, James Earl Jones, John Farley, Gerry Del Sol, Jon Lovitz, Matt Weinberg, Gabriel Pimentel, Molly Sims, Erinn Bartlett, Jon Heder, Reggie Jackson, Sean Salisbury, Jared Sandler, Irene Roseen, Craig Kilborn, Jillian Henry, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Mary Jo Catlett, Joe Gnoffo, Danny McCarthy, Ray Nicholson, Rachel Hunter, Max Prado, Mason Knight, Ron Masak, Brooke Langton
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Reviews
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.
40
Variety
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."
40
From the beginning to its very end, The Benchwarmers seems to be struggling to justify its own existence.
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.
30
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?"
