The Benchwarmers
A famous and loving baseball millionaire will help three obsessed and failed men who are trying to reach success in their favorite baseball game. The lives of the three men may have been in the shadow of the girls, but they decided to start training and work hard to get the title of the best baseball teams in the league. The millionaire named Mile will help them achieve their ambition and enter into strong competition with Little League baseball teams. The three men will try to make up for lost opportunities in childhood while playing the game.
26 February 1973, Longmeadow, Massachusetts, USA
31 July 1951, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
12 January 1994, Longview, Washington, USA
22 October 1996, Big Bear Lake, California, USA
15 April 1992, Bakersfield, California, USA
22 July 1964, Birmingham, Michigan, USA
2 September 1938, Denver, Colorado, USA
5 June 2001, Beverly Hills, California, USA
18 September 1993, Los Angeles, California, USA
2 February 1946, Macon, Georgia, USA
25 May 1973, Murray, Kentucky, USA
25 March 1982, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
24 December 1970, Puerto Rico
7 August 1995, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
24 September 1974, Coral Springs, Florida, USA
11 July 1993, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
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
It's hard to buy the movie as an underdog success story, since even the actors barely seem to exert themselves.
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.
December 01, 2006
...ultimately nothing more than a silly, egregiously sentimental comedy...
November 07, 2012
Stupidity this epic can only be the deliberate work of cynical opportunists.
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.
April 13, 2006
Like pretty much everything else bearing Happy Madison's name, The Benchwarmers kind of sucks.
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.
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.
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.
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.
April 12, 2006
The three losers play a series of Little League teams, snatching victory from the jaws of slapstick humiliation.
