The Benchwarmers
Three men who were obsessed but ambitious, their lives were bullshit, but they decided to start training and work hard to get the title of the best baseball teams in the league. These guys played the game since childhood and decided to make up for missed opportunities in that game and enter the league. The millionaire named Mill will help them to achieve their ambition and enter into strong competition with the Little League baseball teams, perhaps they will achieve a distinguished position among the other teams.
24 December 1970, Puerto Rico
12 February 1966, Lac La Hache, British Columbia, Canada
2 April 1966, Vernon, Connecticut, USA
2 October 1989, La Jolla, California, USA
24 September 1974, Coral Springs, Florida, USA
15 May 1956, Zanesville, Ohio, USA
28 July 1979, San Fernando Valley, California, USA
5 June 2001, Beverly Hills, California, USA
9 March 1963, Long Beach, California, USA
9 October 1976, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
17 January 1931, Arkabutla, Mississippi, USA
17 August 1983, Reno, Nevada, USA
31 July 1951, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
25 March 1982, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
21 August 1962, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
12 January 1994, Longview, Washington, USA
December 01, 2006
...ultimately nothing more than a silly, egregiously sentimental comedy...
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.
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.
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 12, 2006
The three losers play a series of Little League teams, snatching victory from the jaws of slapstick humiliation.
November 07, 2012
Stupidity this epic can only be the deliberate work of cynical opportunists.
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.
April 13, 2006
It's hard to buy the movie as an underdog success story, since even the actors barely seem to exert themselves.
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.
April 13, 2006
Like pretty much everything else bearing Happy Madison's name, The Benchwarmers kind of sucks.
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.
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.
