Rotten
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.
Trevor Johnston, Time Out
The Benchwarmers
Get off the bench and get into the game.
2006 · 1h 25m · PG-13
Comedy
Directed by
Dennis Dugan
Overview
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.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
13%
Tomatometer
Rotten
It's hard to buy the movie as an underdog success story, since even the actors barely seem to exert themselves.
Ben Kenigsberg, L.A. Weekly
Rotten
Like pretty much everything else bearing Happy Madison's name, The Benchwarmers kind of sucks.
Nathan Rabin, AV Club
Fresh
The three losers play a series of Little League teams, snatching victory from the jaws of slapstick humiliation.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Rotten
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.
Joe Leydon, Variety
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