The Benchwarmers (2006)

Comedy

1 hr. 25 min.

Hollywood comedy starring Rob Schneider, David Spade and Jon Heder as three grown-up nerds who join a Little League team to take on the champs.

Rated PG-13 for crude and suggestive humor, and for language

Directed by: Dennis Dugan

Starring: Rob Schneider, David Spade, Jon Heder, Jon Lovitz, Craig Kilborn

Theatrical Release Date: 4/07/2006

Release Type: Wide

U.S. Box Office: $57,651,794

Video/DVD Release Date: 7/25/2006

Distributor: Sony Pictures Releasing

Country: USA

Language: English

Offsite: IMDB | Official Site

CRITIC	RATING	QUOTE
Chicago Tribune Roger Moore	3	It's dopey, crude and lowbrow, but harmless.
E!	3	If the Bad News Bears remake was too sophisticated for you, this might be your thing.
filmcritic.com Pete Croatto	7	...a movie with a nice number of laughs and an encouraging message.
New York Post Lou Lumenick	2	...the second Adam Sandler-produced comedy to be dumped onto unsuspecting customers without advance critics' screenings this year - and it's an even more egregious way to blow $10.75 than the first, Grandma's Boy.
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh	4	...a formulaic mess of sports-movie cliches and self-esteem claptrap...
Reel Pam Grady	3	This is a movie aimed squarely at the set that find "boogers" so amusing: the five- to 12-year-olds. Anyone older who's considering this as a night's possible entertainment, be forewarned: To watch this idiocy is to feel your brain cells die.
Slant Magazine Nick Schager	3	...the latest fiasco from Adam Sandler's Happy Madison Productions...
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman	6	...this morphing of The Bad News Bears and a Three Stooges episode parades its dumbness with such zip that it almost passes for clever.
New York Times Manohla Dargis	3	...this is the kind of juvenile entertainment that will hang around in theaters only long enough to raise awareness for the home-rental market. Filled with sprays of vomit, fountains of spit and enough hot body air to launch a flotilla of passenger balloons, The Benchwarmers is the sort of trash that Hollywood does really well.
Los Angeles Times Gene Seymour	2	From the beginning to its very end, The Benchwarmers seems to be struggling to justify its own existence.
People Leah Rozen	5	...a step up from Schneider and Spade's usual unwatchable fare...
LA Weekly Ben Kenigsberg	4	The Bad News Bears starring man-children...
Onion AV Club Nathan Rabin	4	... kind of sucks.

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ALL AVERAGE CRITIC RATING	3.8
AVERAGE USER RATING (1 rating)	4.0

USER REVIEWS:

Stacy 4

A couple funny spots. One even had me doubled-over.