DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story

DodgeBall A True Underdog Story, commonly referred to as DodgeBall, is a 2004 American sports satirical comedy film produced by 20th Century Fox and Red Hour Productions, written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber and starring Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller. The film focuses on a rivalry between the owners of Average Joes, a small gym, and GloboGym, a competing bigbudget gym located across the street. Peter LaFleur Vaughn, the owner of the smaller gym, has defaulted on his mortgage and enters a dodgeball tournament in an attempt to earn the money necessary to prevent his gym from being purchased by GloboGym to build a new parking lot for their gym members. GloboGym enters a team in the tournament in an effort to ensure that Average Joes gym fails.

Peter LaFleur Vince Vaughn is the owner of Average Joes, a small and financially unsuccessful gym with a handful of loyal oddball members. When he defaults on the gyms mortgage, it is purchased by his rival White Goodman Ben Stiller, a fitness guru and owner of the successful GloboGym across the street. Unless Peter can raise 50,000 in thirty days to cover his mortgage, White will foreclose on Average Joes and demolish it to build a parking garage for his gym members. Attorney Kate Veatch Christine Taylor is working on the transaction for White. White repeatedly and unsuccessfully attempts to charm her, and she instead develops a friendship with Peter while reviewing his financial records.Average Joes employees Dwight Chris Williams and Owen Joel David Moore and members Steve the Pirate Alan Tudyk, Justin Justin Long, and Gordon Stephen Root try to raise the money needed to save the gym. Gordon suggests that they enter a dodgeball tournament in Las Vegas with a 50,000 prize. They form a team with Peter and watch a 1950sera training video narrated by dodgeball legend Patches OHoulihan Hank Azaria. They are soundly defeated by a Girl Scout troop in a local qualifying match, but win by default when the Scouts are disqualified because of one members steroid and beaver tranquilizer use. ........

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