Premiere by Peter Debruge

Take it from someone who can still feel the hollow rubber tang! of old dodgeball scars: It feels great to be blindsided by a little movie like this.

Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum

Hilariously fake and rude. And thus true and tonic, if you know what I mean.

Portland Oregonian by M. E. Russell

If you hold a perverse soft spot in your heart for straight-to-video underdog junk like "Ski School," you're going to love Dodgeball.

Empire by James Dyer

Unpretentious, unsophisticated and all the better for it.

Village Voice by Ed Park

Dodgeball is the most satisfying comedy of the past year--at least among the ones starring Stiller.

Washington Post by Desson Thomson

The movie's a treasure of small gems.

ReelViews by James Berardinelli

A blistering satire of feel-good sports movies, this film makes its mark via the most direct route: it lampoons by adopting the tried-and-true "straight" formula and tweaking it a little.

Baltimore Sun by Chris Kaltenbach

Pointed and satiric. Best of all, one must hasten to admit, it's pretty funny.

New York Daily News by Jack Mathews

There are some clunky, juvenile jokes and an excess of shots to that special place on men that make us double over and weep. But there are some very funny, very hip jokes as well.

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

In a miraculous gift to the audience, 20th Century-Fox does <I>not</I> reveal all of the best gags in its trailer.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Sean Axmaker

It may not be original, but it's often shamelessly funny and more clever than I expected. Not much, mind you, but enough to catch me off guard with a few surprise throws.

USA Today by Mike Clark

Coach Torn adds to a palpably violent undertone by heaving wrenches at their heads and crotches, making The Three Stooges' poking and slapping look downright tame.

Miami Herald by René Rodríguez

In Dodgeball, Vaughn is stuck playing the straight man to a collection of stooges, and he looks utterly bored doing it.

Charlotte Observer by Lawrence Toppman

The movie veers from cleverness to crass stupidity. You can never tell whether the next scene will induce loud laughter or contempt; for me, Dodgeball divided right down the middle.

L.A. Weekly

For a while, Vaughn's slobbo guy charm and Stiller's creepy Flash Gordon aesthetic are amusing, but it isn't long before Vaughn looks like a Bill Murray disciple trapped among circus freaks, and Stiller runs out of weirdo tricks.

Chicago Tribune by Mark Caro

Stiller, a DodgeBall producer, is revealing an unfortunate craving for the cheese of his childhood.

Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt

Stiller strives to be a wild and wacky villain, Vaughn endeavors to be a likable and average hero, and both fall flat on their faces, like everything else in this unspeakably stupid comedy.

Los Angeles Times by Manohla Dargis

Mean-spirited vulgarity and homosexual panic.