Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story

When megalomaniacal White Goodman, the owner of a trendy, high-end fitness center, makes a move to take over the struggling local gym run by happy-go-lucky Pete La Fleur, there's only one way for La Fleur to fight back: dodgeball. Aided by a dodgeball guru and Goodman's attorney, La Fleur and his rag-tag team of underdogs launch a knock-down, drag-out battle in which the winner takes all.

Critics were genuinely split on this one: a majority found it a funny, gag-driven comedy with real chemistry between Vaughn and Stiller, but a vocal minority saw it as thin and overly reliant on a single joke. Stiller's cartoonish villain divided opinion most sharply — some read him as sharp satire of macho posturing, others felt he simply didn't know when to quit.