The Benchwarmers (2006)


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.

The Benchwarmers (2006)

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Released Year: 2006
Runtime: 80 minutes
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Directors: Dennis Dugan

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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.

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Reviews


50
Boston Globe - Unnamed
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 - Joe Leydon
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
Los Angeles Times - Gene Seymour
From the beginning to its very end, The Benchwarmers seems to be struggling to justify its own existence.
38
TV Guide Magazine - Maitland McDonagh
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
The Hollywood Reporter - Frank Scheck
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?"

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