Synopsis
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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Cast
- Rob SchneiderGus
- David SpadeRichie
- Jon HederClark
- Molly SimsLiz
- Jon LovitzMel
- Amaury NolascoCarlos
- Tim MeadowsWayne
- Nick SwardsonHowie
- Erinn BartlettSalad Girl / Sarah
- Craig KilbornJerry
Recommendations
- 50
Boston Globe
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
Los Angeles Times
From the beginning to its very end, The Benchwarmers seems to be struggling to justify its own existence. - 38
TV Guide Magazine
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
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?" - 30
The New York Times
The Benchwarmers is the sort of trash that Hollywood does really well. It is also, to quote Mr. Schneider, "a master's thesis on the form of a quintessential Adam Sandler comedy." - 25
San Francisco Chronicle
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. - 12
New York Daily News
The humor is infantile at best (projectile vomiting and bathroom jokes) and meanspirited at worst (midgets and gays, look out).
